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Govt forms high powered panel to revamp pricing and reinsurance mechanisms for PMFBY
The committee will be chaired by additional secretary (Crop...
Allianz scraps nuclear, military exclusions to back Europe’s rearmament drive
AGI wrote to its clients late last week to advise that its...
Carmakers feel chip crisis easing as global growth slows
Even as demand for cars boomed, auto manufacturers have had to curtail output as plants globally could not source enough chips critical for increasingly computerised vehicles The outages have been so severe that global passenger car output has barely shown signs of...
Another rate hike on cards, say experts ahead of RBI’s MPC meeting
Recently in a TV interview, the governor said that the ''expectation of rate hike is a no-brainer, there will be some increase in the repo rates, but by how much I will not be able to tell now but to say that 5.15 may not be very accurate''. Mumbai: With inflation...
FPIs outflow continues for 8th straight month; pull out nearly Rs 40,000-cr from equities in May
Going ahead, FPI flows will remain volatile in the emerging markets on account of rising geo-political risk, rising inflation, tightening of monetary policy by central banks, among others, Shrikant Chouhan, Head - Equity Research (Retail), Kotak Securities said New...
Japan recorded biggest population drop in 2021
Japan has one of the fastest aging populations on earth, and the country's closed borders over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic have hastened the shrinkage of its workforce Japan recorded a record low number of births in 2021, prompting the biggest ever natural...
Almost 90 per cent of the state’s population has health insurance: Rajasthan CM
Ashok Gehlot,Chief Minister,Rajasthan "It is a matter of great happiness that almost 90% of the population of Rajasthan has health insurance. On an average, 4 out of every 10 people in the country have health insurance, but in Rajasthan, 9 out of every 10 people have...
World Environment Day: New solutions to cut pollution
Akshit Bansal, CEO of Statiq, noted, "In 2019, India led the global score in pollution-led deaths with 2.4 million people dying due to outdoor air pollution; hence it's a key environmental issue for the nation. In this scenario, electric vehicles (EV) causing...
71% Indians not able to afford healthy diet: CSE Report
The diet of an average Indian lacks in fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts and whole grains. A healthy diet is considered unaffordable when its cost exceeds 63 percent of a person's income, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation Seventy-one per cent Indians...
Foot-and-mouth disease reaches Australian shores as Indonesia outbreak spreads
Foot-and-mouth is a highly contagious disease that affects cattle, sheep, goats and pigs. It is characterized by fever and blister-like sores on the tongue and lips, in the mouth, on the teats and between the hooves. The virus has not been detected in Australia for...
EU accords final nod to new sanctions on Russian oil and Sberbank
Apart from banning seaborne imports into Europe, the new sanctions also include an immediate ban on insuring ships carrying Russian oil elsewhere, an EU official told Reuters, while existing contracts are to be phased out over six months BRUSSELS: The European Union...
Insuring most expensive Mercedes is neither cheap nor easy
Numerous factors go into finalizing the rates and structure of such a policy—things like location, storage, and vehicle type—but in general, insuring a $100 million vehicle costs well over $100,000 to insure annually On May 5, a 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Uhlenhaut...