Health

Noting that the global health criris “has given us a glimpse of our world as it could be: cleaner skies and rivers… Building back better means building back greener”.

PETA moves HC for directions to AAP govt to take steps to prevent spread of glanders in the city

Aug 21, 2020 | Facts, Health, Risk Management

The People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India, in its application, has also sought implementation of the National Action Plan for Control and Eradication of Glanders and immediate testing of all the horses, mules, ponies, donkeys in Delhi

107-year-old Maharashtra woman beats COVID-19

Aug 21, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic

The centenarian had recently undergone a spine surgery and when she tested positive for the virus, her old age posed a major challenge in her recovery, Jalna district civil surgeon Archana Bhosale said.

Chinese insurance tech firm Waterdrop raises $230 million, plans U.S. IPO

Aug 21, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Technology

Two sources with knowledge of the fundraising told Reuters that Waterdrop was valued at nearly $2 billion in the funding round. One of them said that Swiss Re itself had invested $100 million.

Swiss Re declined to comment on its investment size, but said the company’s participation in the round was part of its long-term commitment to China.

Bayer to pay $1.6 billion to resolve U.S. claims for Essure birth-control device

Aug 21, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Risk Management

Women have claimed in lawsuits that the device, which is implanted in the fallopian tubes to permanently block the passage of eggs to the uterus, could pierce the tubes, and that the device’s metal parts could become dislodged and migrate to other parts of the body.

Indore cleanest city in India for the fourth time, five others rated 5-star

Aug 21, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health

Indore city in Madhya Pradesh emerged as the cleanest city for the fourth time in a row, Surat and Navi Mumbai won the second and third position respectively in the more than 100,000 population category.

Mysuru city in Karnataka had won the award for the cleanest city of India in the first edition of the survey in 2016, while Indore had retained the top position for three consecutive years.

Chhattisgarh won the prestigious title of the cleanest state in the more than hundred urban local bodies category, while Jharkhand was adjudged the winner in the less than hundred urban local bodies category. An additional 117 awards were also handed over by the Minister.

Beijing says residents can go mask-free as China COVID cases hit new lows

Aug 21, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic

Beijing’s municipal Centers for Disease Control first said residents could go without masks in outdoor areas in late April, though the rules were swiftly reversed in June after a new outbreak in a large wholesale market in the city’s south.
Experts say the key to the country’s success in controlling the disease has been the strict enforcement of local rules, including wearing masks, mandatory home quarantine and participating in mass testing.

Russia vaccine roll-out plan prompts virus mutation worries

Aug 21, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Pandemic

Sputnik-V’s developers, as well as financial backers and Russian authorities, say the vaccine is safe and that two months of small-scale human trials have shown that it works.

But the results of those trials have not been made public, and many Western scientists are sceptical, warning against its use until all internationally approved testing and regulatory hurdles have been passed.

ICICI Gen acquiers Bharti AXA Gen in an all- stock deal valued at Rs 4,200 crore

Aug 21, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life

AXA and Bharti to combine their non-life operations in India into ICICI Lombard, in exchange of shares, said Axa.

Under the terms of the agreement, AXA and Bharti will receive a total of 35.8 million shares of ICICI Lombard on closing, which would represent Euro 521 million at current market value, and an implied HY 2020 P/BV4 multiple of more than five times. The transactionis expected to result in a one-time positive net income of approximately Euro 0.2 billion in AXA Group’s FY 2021 consolidated financial statements,said AXA..