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PK Arora, Member, Actuary, IRDAI gets 2-yr extension
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Indian tax payers migrating to higher range of total gross income: SBI Research report
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Govt to develop 8 new cities to meet urbanisation demand: Official
He said that in the country, no new cities have come up for many years, adding that the the Finance Commission has granted Rs 8,000 crore to incubate new cities.
According to the ministry, Rs 1,000 crore will be available for each city.
Govts, people incur financial losses in any agitation: MHA
“Delhi Police has informed that Ghazipur, Chilla, Tikri and Singhu borders of the national capital are blocked by the agitating farmers and it is inconvenient for the residents of Delhi and neighbouring States. In any agitation, there is a financial loss incurred by people and governments,” MHA replied in Rajya Sabha today.
Data of 25 lakh Airtel customers in J-K allegedly leaked; telco claims no breach in server
A sample of the leaked database was shared on Twitter by cybersecurity researcher Rajshekhar Rajaharia which shows masked details of the subscribers. Rajaharia also shared a video of an email conversation between Bharti Airtel and the hackers with the name of ‘Red Rabbit Team’.
Over 300 million Indians may have COVID-19 – source citing government study
Separate tests done on more than 700,000 people across India by diagnostics company Thyrocare Technologies showed 55% of the population may have already been infected, its chief told Reuters last week.
The World Health Organization says at least 60% to 70% of a population needs to have immunity to break the chain of transmission.
India bans Future CEO from securities market in insider trading case
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) said the two brothers traded in shares of Future Retail through a group company on the basis of unpublished price sensitive information before a demerger of certain businesses of Future Retail that pushed its share price higher.
India tells Twitter to comply with order to block accounts – sources
Twitter blocked dozens of accounts in India on Monday after the country’s Home Affairs Ministry complained that users were posting content aimed at inciting violence, a government had previously told Reuters.
But it later unblocked some of these accounts, prompting New Delhi to write to the U.S. social media giant demanding that it obey the government order, the technology ministry sources, who declined to be named as the notice to Twitter was not public, told Reuters.
LIC IPO may hit market in Q4 of next fiscal: DEA Secretary Tarun Bajaj
New Delhi: The initial public offering of LIC may hit the market in the fourth quarter of next financial year, and the government has introduced amendments to the Life Insurance Corporation Act 1956 to facilitate this, Economic Affairs Secretary Tarun Bajaj...
93,000 cybercrimes related to sexual exploitation, hate in 3 years: MHA
As per data maintained and published by the National Crime Records Bureau, 21,796 cybercrimes were registered in 2017, 27,248 in 2018 and 44,546 in 2019.”The motives behind cyber crime in the country include personal revenge, fraud, sexual exploitation, inciting hate, spreading piracy, stealing information etc,” Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy said in a written reply to a question.
SJM and Employees’ unions oppose govt’s move to privatise a PSU general insurer
SJM National Co-Convenor Ashwani Mahajan stated that the announcement of privatisation of public sector banks and an insurance company is worrying.After 2018, that had announced the merger of three PSU general insurers, National Insurance Company, Oriental Insurance Company and United India Insurance Company, which was called off in 2020, the announcement in Budget-2021-22 to privatise one of the PSU general insurers, has again given rise to conjecture and confusion, said a statement by officials of different uinons, which had supported the mergers of three companies. .
LIC’s prm income from P&G schemes crosses Rs 1 trillion in 10 months
This is first time ever any single vertical of the life insurance behemoth has crossed such a gigantic premium income figure successively for two years.
Pension and Group Schemes Vertical of LIC provides employees retiral funds’ management solution to the who’s who of India Inc and has been steadily holding around 80 per cent market share in new business premium post opening of the life insurance industry.