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DIFC’s re/insurance gross premium rises 35% to $3.5bn in 2024
The insurance and reinsurance sector also experienced robust...
Global natural disasters cause overall losses of around $ 131bn,insured losses at $ 80bn in H1 2025, says Munich Re
Thomas Blunck, Member of the Board of Management After the record...
Kotak Gen launches a car insurance add-on with cashback
Suresh Agarwal, managing director and CEO, Kotak General Insurance said, "Demand for need based insurance cover has been on a rise particularly post Covid. With hybrid and work from home policies coupled with higher fuel prices and increasing inflation has witnessed a...
SAT upholds IRDAI’s rulings against Go Digit on combi product
IRDAI after examining Go Digit’s “Digital Group Total Protect Policy” filed under `Use and File’ norms had asked the company to withdraw the product as some of its features fall under life insurance products and can’t be offered by a general insurance company...
Historic compensation fund approved at UN climate talks
The decision establishes a fund for what negotiators call loss and damage. It is a big win for poorer nations which have long called for cash sometimes viewed as reparations because they are often the victims of climate worsened floods, droughts, heat waves, famines...
Chubb receives regulatory approval to increase its Huatai stake to 83.2%
"China is currently the second largest insurance market after the United States. With an aging and more affluent society comes the growing demands for insurance and asset management products and services. We take a long-term view, and I am confident Huatai will grow...
Research: Potential threat to heart health from extreme weather
Study author Professor Stefan Agewall of the University of Oslo, Norway said: "The relationships between cold temperatures and deaths were more pronounced in men and people living in neighbourhoods with a low socioeconomic status. The links between cold and new-onset...
Extreme weather events to rise manifold in India due to climate change: IIT-G study
''The fraction of the total population and urban area exposed to sequential extremes will increase rapidly if the global mean temperature rises above 1.5 degrees Celsius from the pre-industrial level,'' Vimal Mishra, Professor, Civil Engineering and Earth Sciences,...
Big Pharma may have to reveal government deals in WHO’s draft pandemic rules
The aim of the pact, commonly known as the pandemic treaty, is to prevent the next global health crisis from being as devastating as COVID-19 and improving the global response that left many of the world's poorest countries behind The draft recognises the importance...
Syngenta introduces feature in app to identify pest attack on crops
Susheel Kumar, MD and Country Head, Syngenta India, said globally farmers are facing challenges, including climate change, soil erosion and biodiversity loss. The newly added feature will be very helpful for farmers, he added Global agriculture firm Syngenta has...
Farmers to continue protest in Odisha’s Padampur over non-payment of insurance dues
Narendra Singh Tomar,Union Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister In the face of the farmers' agitation, Union Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare Minister Narendra Singh Tomar in a Twitter post said: "In the process of settlement of insurance claims of disputed...
Asian businesses continues with hybrid working
Attitudes vary across the region. Singapore, Australia and New Zealand are most likely to embrace flexible working. China, Japan and India are the least receptive to it. The number of Asian businesses expecting employees to spend their entire working life operating...