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Over the past three decades, India has gained 10 years in life expectancy: Lancet study
“In India maternal mortality used to be very high, but now it is coming down. Cardiovascular diseases used to be number five, and now it is number one, and cancer rates are increasing,” Mokdad, Professor of Global Health at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), said.
Floods kill 60 in India, damage crops
The worst affected state was Telangana, where excessive unseasonal rainfall on Wednesday and Thursday flooded its capital Hyderabad, home to major companies and startups such as Microsoft, Accenture, Amazon and TCS
Passenger vehicle sales rise 26% in Sept; up for 2nd straight month: SIAM
Vehicle sales across categories during the second quarter declined marginally to 55,96,223 units as against 56,51,459 units in the same period of the previous fiscal.
Boeing’s 737 Max declared safe to fly by Europe’s aviation regulator
Boeing’s 737 Max declared safe to fly by Europe’s aviation regulatorEurope’s top aviation regulator said he’s satisfied that changes to Boeing Co.’s 737 Max have made the plane safe enough to return to the region’s skies before 2020 is out, even as a further upgrade his agency demanded won’t be ready for up to two years.
Heavy overnight rain in Mumbai; waterlogging in some areas
The island city received 106.01 mm rain in the 24-hour period ending at 8 am on Thursday, followed by 69.18 mm rain in eastern suburbs and 58.36 mm in western suburbs during the same period, a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) official said.
Digital health ID can get Indian economy moving again, NHA chief
Analysis of Big Data on health “will lead to better planning, budgeting and implementation for states and health programs, which should be a big cost optimizer,” said Indu Bhushan, chief executive officer of the National Health Authority, who compared the gains produced by the “new digital highway” to those from building physical infrastructure such as roads
India’s peak holiday season set to send COVID-19 cases surging
“We will probably have more deaths out of starvation if the rural migratory population who flock to cities during the pujas and earn some money during the festivity are deprived of the opportunity,” said Subrata Mukherjee, a cabinet minister in the fourth-most populous state of West Bengal, which has one of India’s highest coronavirus caseloads.
‘SIRC 2020 Re-Mind’ virtual event to be held on 2 to 5 Nov, Singapore’s Dy PM to deliver keynote address
Registration for the event is free
As Co-Host, Swiss Re will curate conference sessions during the virtual event featuring senior leaders and experts from around the world in discussions on a wide range of (re)insurance topics, such as ‘Insurance digitalisation in a post-COVID world’; ‘Derisking global supply chains’; and ‘Managing climate risks’. Other contributing partners are being lined up to curate other sessions to be presented at the event.
Risk Management: COVID-19 spurs collaboration and innovation
Risk management and transfer has always been about collaboration between client, broker and insurance carrier to find the most suitable solutions for risk problems. Without a doubt, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced us all to find different ways to do that – with the opportunity for face-to-face brainstorming put on hold, we need to find other ways to continue to innovate.
Climate Change means more Weather Disasters every year
The 2020 State of Climate Services report, compiled by 16 international agencies and financing institutions, calls on governments to put more money into early-warning systems that can improve countries’ ability to prepare for, respond to and mitigate the impact of such natural disasters.
“While COVID-19 generated a large international health and economic crisis from which it will take years to recover, it is crucial to remember that climate change will continue to pose an on-going and increasing threat to human lives, ecosystems, economies and societies for centuries to come,“ said WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas.