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IBAI votes out its president Sanjay Kedia, elects five new faces as directors

IBAI’s 15-member board of  directors, have  chosen Sumit Bohra as the new the  new president of the association.
After voting out some existing directors who were seeking re-election, the brokers had elected five new faces as directors for three years,.
They are Sundaram Venkatavaradan of Abhivridhi Insurance Brokers. Rashmi Ravi Iyer of Global Insurance Brokers, Sandeep Dadia of Aditya Birla Insurance Brokers, Mohan Sriraman of Paavana Insurance Brokers, Surender Kumar Tonk of  Advance Life Insurance Brokers

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India’s COVID-19 infection tally crosses 74 lakh with 62,212 new cases

There are 7,95,087 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country which comprises 10.70 per cent of the total caseload, while the recoveries have surged to 65,24,595, according to the data.

The COVID-19 case fatality rate due COVID-19 was recorded at 1.52 per cent.
According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), a cumulative total of 9,32,54,017 samples have been tested up to October 16 with 9,99,090 samples being tested on Friday

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India took host of measures to combat COVID-19 impact: Nirmala Sitharaman to World Bank

“Measures have been announced to provide relief to the business, bring about major reforms in the labour sector by simplifying, amalgamating and rationalising 44 central labour laws, provide effective social protection to the migrant workers through National Portability of ration cards,” she said, as per a statement issued by the finance ministry.

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Dr Reddy’s gets DCGI nod to conduct Covid-19 vaccine phase 2/3 human trails

Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, said, “We are pleased to collaborate with the Indian regulators and in addition to Indian clinical trial data, we will provide safety and immunogenicity study from the Russian phase 3 clinical trial.This data will further strengthen the clinical development of Sputnik V vaccine in India.”

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