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Insurance premium for aircraft expected to go up, says IndiGo CEO
During a virtual interaction post announcing the June quarter...
Ambanis to infuse Rs 16K cr in Jio Financial Services to take on rivals
Mukesh Ambani, chairman, Reliance Industries Currently, JFS, which...
India’s GIFT City aims to take On financial hubs in Singapore and Dubai
Modi’s government has offered an array of incentives, including a 100% tax holiday for a decade to businesses that set up within the hub’s International Financial Services Center, or IFSC. Rules are being tweaked to encourage Indian companies to lease ships and...
Activists aggravate art insurers’ climate headache
“At the moment it’s just climate change activists, who are mainly middle-class liberals and are not really intending to damage the work,” said Robert Read, head of art and private client at insurer Hiscox. “What we worry about is if it spreads to other protest groups...
Over 75 per cent Indians with hypertension have uncontrolled BP: Lancet study
''Hypertension is a significant contributor to mortality in India. Achieving better hypertension control rate at the population level is critical in reducing cardiovascular morbidity and mortality,'' the authors said New Delhi: Less than one-fourth of hypertensive...
Maha: Excessive rainfall-affected farmers upset over getting paltry amounts as crop insurance
The state government data also revealed that out of 1.03 lakh farmers who submitted their claims for crop damage due to excess showers in Ahmednagar, only 20,226 claims have been approved so far and Rs 9.78 crore has been disbursed. Mumbai: A number of farmers in...
Avoid antibiotics for low-grade fever: ICMR guidelines
An ICMR survey conducted between January 1 and December 31, 2021 had suggested that a big chunk of patients in India may no longer benefit from the use of carbapenem, a powerful antibiotic administered mainly in ICU settings for the treatment of pneumonia and...
Outdated Covid travel advisories, conflicting norms causing inconvenience to people
While majority of states and union territories have relaxed Covid restrictions, a few still want unvaccinated travellers to mandatorily have either an RT-PCR test report within 48 to 96 hours before starting their journey or undergo a test on arrival at their...
EU postpones talks on Russian oil price cap as divisions stick
The EU sanctions would bar access to insurance and services for any ship transporting Russian oil. The cap allows access to those services, but only if the crude is purchased below a certain level. The US proposed the price cap earlier this year as an alternative to...
15-year-old govt vehicles will be scrapped: Gadkari
''Yesterday, I signed a file under the guidance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi that all the vehicles of the Indian government which have completed 15 years will be scrapped. I have sent this policy of the Indian government to all the states. They should adopt this...
IRDAI eases norms for PEs to invest in insurance cos, Corporate agents can tie up with 9 insurers, Kshema General Insurance receives license, 19 pending
Corporate agents can tie up with 9 insurers (earlier 3 insurers) and Insurance Marketing Forms (IMF) can tie up with 6 insurers (earlier 2 insurers) in each line of business of life, general and health for distribution of their insurance products. The area of...
Lost crores, say Delhi traders affected by fire in India’s largest wholesale electrical, electronics market
New Delhi: In the narrow bylanes of Delhi's Chandni Chowk, firefighters toiled for hours to douse a blaze that overnight gutted around 100 shops of a wholesale market of electrical and electronic goods.Ignoring the intermittent sounds of blasts and policemen warning...