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Govt probes insurers paying excessive distribution commissions without growing business
The Department of Financial services (DFS) has sent letters to...
RBI faults Indian insurers’ high-cost distribution strategies
Premium growth in the Indian insurance industry has been...
LIC likely to announce its stake buying in a health insurer by Mar 31, says Mohanty
Siddartha Mohanty, MD & CEO, Life Insurance Corporation `Our plans to get into health insurance have made progress. We are now at the final stage and hopeful that a decision will be taken before March 31. We have to also get regulatory approvals and that take...
Religare Enterprises seeks governance review, funding from Burman family
The objective is to review past operating practices, suggest improvements and to identify any potential instances of misconduct by certain current and/or former employees of Religare and its units, the company said in an exchange filing New Delhi: India's Religare...
IDRAI asks insurers to keep their offices opened during Mar 29-31 including Saturday & Sunday
The insurers have to give adequate publicity to the special arrangements made for the last 3 days of the month Hyderabad: Insurance regulator IRDAI has asked all the insurers to keep their offices open as per normal working hours on 29th(Saturday), 30th(Sunday) and...
Parl panel recommends single independent drug controller for AYUSH
It recommended that the reach should cover 50 per cent of Indian states in the coming year and eventually all of the country in the near future to propagate the Ayush System for the prevention and treatment of common ailments New Delhi: A parliamentary committee has...
India advancing with labour welfare, quality employment and social justice: Govt
Sumita Dawra, Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Employment and Gilbert F. Houngbo, Director General, International Labour Organisation(ILO) at ILO meet in Geneva The contribution of India’s flagship institutions and schemes such as EPFO (7.37 crore contributing...
British PM Starmer scraps health body in search of savings and better care
Keir Starmer, Prime Minister, UK "I can't, in all honesty, explain to the British people why they should spend their money on two layers of bureaucracy," Prime Minister Keir Starmer Starmer said in a speech in the northern English city of Hull. He said the change...
Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali Ayurved forays into general insurance, buys majority stake in Magma General Insurance
Patanjali Ayurved, along with other investors, have bought out the stake of Senoti Properties, a joint venture between businessman Adar Poonawalla and Rising Sun Holdings. Senoti Properties held a 74.5 per cent stake in Magma General Insurance and would...
Common diabetes drug price slashed in India due to generic versions
India is known as the diabetes capital of the world with over 10 crore people diagnosed with the lifestyle disease, as per the Indian Council of Medical Research–India Diabetes (ICMR INDIAB) study in 2023 New Delhi: The price of commonly used diabetes drug...
ICMR should study more about air pollution suggest ways to handle ill-effects Par Panel
"The committee, therefore, feels that it is high time for India to establish an Environmental Health Regulatory Agency for Comprehensive and Cohesive Environmental Governance to control detrimental health effects of exposure to air, water and soil pollutants to...
Age criterion for Ayushman Vay Vandana Cards should be rationalised to 60 years Parl panel
The panel recommended that the number of packages/procedures covered under the Yojana should be reviewed and the fresh packages/procedures related to treatment of critical illness with high cost of treatment and expensive high-end investigations/diagnostics like...