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Clear understanding and documentation of cyber insurance policies...
Economic Survey highlights urgent need for structured elderly care policies in India
Coupled with insights from a NITI Aayog position paper, the survey...
FPIs pump in Rs 19,712 cr in Indian markets in Nov so far
Long-term perspective, India continues to be an important and competitive investment destination. Despite intermittent and short-term challenges, India offers a good growth opportunity,'' said Himanshu Srivastava, associate director (manager research) at Morningstar...
Kerala to come out with policy to promote ESG investments, says Industries Minister
P Rajeev,Industries Minister,Kerala Emphasising that ''ESG is the need of the day'', Rajeev, Industries Minister, pointed out that after floods and natural calamities, the state government has taken various steps to ensure the equilibrium regarding environmental...
US Cap on drug price hikes for privately insured sparks battle
Polls show that Americans across the political spectrum overwhelmingly favor government action to reduce drug prices. The chief cost complaints are: high out-of-pocket costs for patients, high and rising list prices, and high launch prices for new medicines. The Biden...
Indonesia prepares regulation to help fund mangrove restoration
A government study showed last month that Indonesia will need to invest $150 billion to $200 billion per year in low carbon programmes over the next nine years to meet its goal of net zero carbon emissions by 2060 or sooner. To help reach its goal, Indonesia will...
South Africa officials Sued Over Plans to Construct New Coal-Fired Power Plants
South Africa relies on coal for more than 80% of its power and is the world’s 12th-biggest source of greenhouse gases. South Africa’s energy regulator and energy minister have been sued by environmental activists over national plans to allow the construction of new...
Covid, soaring inflation threaten second winter of woe for world economy
With parts of Europe confronting renewed restrictions to contain another wave of the virus, China’s rebound fading and rising infections taking hold in America too, much of the global economy is now staring at the threat of a second northern winter of woe, compounded...
Europe’s Covid-19 crisis pits vaccinated against unvaccinated
With infections spiking again despite nearly two years of restrictions, the health crisis increasingly is pitting citizen against citizen - the vaccinated against the unvaccinated Brussles: This was supposed to be the Christmas in Europe where family and friends could...
EPFO empowers advisory body FIAC to take call on investment in new instruments like InvITs
Explaining the rationale behind the decision, Labour Secretary Sunil Barthwal told reporters,''If we want to provide high rate of interest then we have to follow guidelines of finance ministry. There are certain instruments (prescribed in norms) where we were not able...
Common Service Centres records more that 80% informal workers’ registrations on e-Shram portal
"We would like the CSCs to become labour welfare centres and help every worker get his/her due benefit under central/state government schemes," CSC SPV Managing Director Dr Dinesh Tyagi said According to the latest data available on the e-Shram portal, as many as 8.43...
EPFO net adds 15.41 lakh subscribers in Sept
Age-wise comparison of payroll data shows that the age-group of 22-25 years registered the highest number of net enrolments at 4.12 lakh during September 2021. This was followed by 18-21 years with around 3.18 lakh net enrolments. This indicates that many first-time...