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Centre on alert over respiratory, seasonal influenza cases amid Covid-like HMPV outbreak in China
The National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) under the Union...
Auto sales: Retail sales up 9% in India, crosses 26 million units in 2024
In 2024, EV sales reached 1.95 million units, up from 1.5 million...
Unfolding global developments poses risks to Indian economy, says RBI
Even though India is making steady progress on the domestic front, the spiralling oil and gas prices and unsettled financial market conditions also pose fresh headwinds to the still incomplete global recovery, it observed The RBI also said that a rapid and large...
China weighs exit from ‘zero COVID’ and the risks involved
Studies of Chinese vaccines suggest they offer significantly less protection against infection from omicron, even after three doses, than a booster shot from a Western vaccine using mRNA technology. A Chinese mRNA vaccine is still in trials One major reason China is...
Japan manufacturers restart some of the northeast’s quake-hit plants
Renesas Electronics Corp, which makes nearly a third of the microcontroller chips used in cars globally, said a stop on two factories and a partial stop on a third remained in place Tokyo: Japanese manufacturers began restarting production at some of the plants that...
Be ready to lose all your money in crypto, EU regulators warn
Regulators are increasingly worried that more consumers are buying 17,000 different cryptoassets, including bitcoin and ether, which account for 60% of the market, without being fully aware of the risks LONDON:, Consumers risk losing all their money invested in...
Swiss Re cuts fossil fuel cover for oil, gas to protect climate
In its annual sustainability report released Thursday, Swiss Re said it would no longer insure projects that get the go-ahead from their parent company from 2022, unless the company has an independently verified, science-based plan to reach net-zero emissions Now, the...
UK tables ‘world-first’ online safety law in Parliament
Nadine Dorries,UK Digital Secretary The Online Safety Bill has been dubbed a milestone in the fight for a new digital age, which will hand the country’s communications watchdog the power to fine or even ban offensive websites. It is also designed to protect children...
Cyclone brewing in Bay of Bengal, A&N Islands to get heavy rains
“If the forecast materialises, tropical cyclone Asani will become the first-ever tropical cyclone to hit Andaman and Nicobar Islands in March. Not a single tropical cyclone has hit the region in March in at least 132 years,” Akshay Deoras, a meteorologist at the...
World far short of climate goals during ‘decade of action’ -report
The report also said big developing countries like India and China, which in 2018 accounted for 42% of all emissions, "will dominate the uncertainty” in climate progress with their emissions growing faster in coming years than emissions are reduced elsewhere...
Market volatility is Ukraine war’s main risk for European insurers: Fitch
``We estimate that global reinsurers’ coverage of risks in Russia typically accounts for less than 2% of their gross written premiums (GWP). The exposure is mostly from specialty lines, such as energy, marine and aviation, typically written through Lloyd’s of London...
Magnitude 7.3 Earthquake hits Japan’s Fukushima area, triggers a tsunami advisory & disrupts power in Tokyo
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said more than 2 million buildings, including around 700,000 in Tokyo, lost power. No irregularities have been found at its Dai-ni nuclear power plant in Fukushima, while the Dai-ichi plant is still being checked, Chief Cabinet Secretary...