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No Insurance Amendment Bill in Parliament’s Monsoon session
M Nagaraju, Secretary, Department of Financial Services ``The Bill...
Govt tasks PSU general insurers to ramp up Property portfolio and customer services
(L to R)-Girija Subramaninan, CMD, New India Assurance(NIA),...
Cuba quietly authorizes euthanasia
Euthanasia and medically assisted suicide, opposed by most religions, sparks huge controversy around the world where just a handful of countries allow the practice and some equate it with murder. The Cuban Roman Catholic Church was not immediately available for...
India expected to see 1 cr EV sales annually by 2030, create 5 cr jobs: Gadkari
Union minister Nitin Gadkari said the government has also permitted retrofitting of existing polluting vehicles into hybrid and fully EVs. The regulations have been finalised and technology demonstrations done successfully, he added. He said the government intends to...
Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission ensures robust patient data security measures: NHA
Vikram Pagaria, joint director of the mission under the National Health Authority, highlighted that around 2,50,000 health facilities have been connected so far under the ABDM run by the NHA. Pagaria said that under this mission, there is no question of the patient's...
New psychological intervention ‘EASE’ to help adolescents affected by distress
1 in 7 adolescents globally experience mental health conditions, which mostly go unseen and untreated. EASE is the first WHO-UNICEF psychological intervention to address the critical shortage of mental health care for adolescents experiencing distress Geneva: The...
India boosts AI in weather forecasts as floods, droughts increase
The India Meteorological Department expects the AI-based climate models and advisories it is developing to help improve forecasts.The weather office has used AI to generate public alerts regarding heatwaves and such diseases as malaria.It plans to increase weather...
Govt grants one-time exemption to LIC to achieve 25 pc MPS in 10 yrs
LIC stock jumped over 7 per cent to reach its 52-week high in morning trade on Friday after getting a one-time exemption to achieve 25 per cent Minimum Public Shareholding (MPS) within 10 years. The stock climbed 7.25 per cent to reach its 52-week high of Rs 820.05 on...
2024: Reforms to keep Indian insurance sector buoyant
Sumit Rai, MD & CEO, Edelweiss Tokio Life Insurance One of the awaited developments of 2024 is that the government will table the Insurance Laws (Amendment) Bill as it has the potential to bring another round of positive reforms and bolster the growth prospects of...
DFS Secy Joshi initiates move to set up of an Indian Health Regulator
Vivek Joshi, secretary, Department of Financial Services ``I request you to initiate a meeting of General Insurance Council along with the senior executive of leading insurance companies, National Health Authority (NHA) and Department of...
Over 7.40 crore persons filed ITRs in FY23, 5.16 crore showed zero tax liability
The number of ITRs filed in the 2021-22 fiscal rose to over 6.94 crore and further to over 7.40 crore in the 2022-23 fiscal. The number of persons whose I-T returns amount to zero tax liability during the last four years increased from 2.90 crore in fiscal 2019-20 to...
2,500 fraudulent loan apps weeded out from Google Play Store: Sitharman
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharman said that in accordance with the revised policy, only those apps are allowed on the Play Store which are published by Regulated Entities (REs) or those working in partnership with Res New Delhi: Google has suspended or removed over...