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No fee to be charged for updation of nominees for PPF accounts: FM
"The Banking Amendment Bill 2025, passed recently, allows...
New India celebrates `Bima Jagruti Mahotsava’ in Gujarat
Furthering its commitment to financial inclusion, NIA has opened a...
Environmental, social credit risks to rise in 2023, Moody’s says
“The rapid crystallization of climate change-related risks have highlighted the need for rapid decarbonisation and scaling up of adaptation finance, bringing longer-term environmental risks into sharper relief,” Rebecca Karnovitz, vice president – senior credit...
Environment risks dominate in “polycrisis” world – WEF survey
The interplay between climate change impacts, biodiversity loss, food security and natural resource consumption is a dangerous cocktail,” said John Scott, head of Sustainability Risk at Zurich Insurance Group, which partnered on the report with risk strategy group...
Study finds how retirement plans affect cognitive performance in older people
With a higher life expectancy and a decline in fertility in developing countries, the elderly population has become the most significant demographic source in Asia and Latin America, generating an urgent need for new, sustainable pension systems Study finds how...
Mayors from around the world to meet for first ever ‘healthy cities’ summit
"Through the Partnership for Healthy Cities, WHO and partners are working with mayors to create programmes and policies that place health at the centre of urban design, such as safe streets that promote active mobility, local sources of fresh and healthy food, and...
Shortage of healthcare workers globally may rise to 10 mn by decade-end: WEF study
Launched in the run-up to the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting 2023 in the Swiss ski resort town of Davos, the report said the rise in healthcare spending has fast-tracked progress in telehealth, vaccines and precision medicine, but businesses and...
China not to include Pfizer Inc’s Covid drug in its insurance scheme
Boxes of Paxlovid are changing hands for as much as 50,000 yuan ($7,313.15), more than 20 times the original price of 2,300 yuan, according to local media reports and social media posts. Beijing has been largely resistant to Western vaccines, but has greenlighted...
Financial inclusion appears to be positively correlated with per capita income growth: IMF
IMF said, "For example, the launch of the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana programme in India in 2014, one of the world's largest financial inclusion initiatives to date, is one prominent example of India's national-level commitment to advancing financial inclusion."...
No patient benefitted from Rs 50 lakh help scheme to treat rare disease patients: Varun Gandhi to Mandaviya
BJP MP Varun Gandhi According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare crowdfunding platform, around 208 Lysosomal Storage Disorder patients can immediately be put on therapy since the Drugs Controller General of India-approved treatments for most of these...
India’s GDP growth estimated to slip to 7 pc in 2022-23: Govt data
Financial, real estate and professional services segment is projected to grow at 6.4 per cent in the current fiscal, up from 4.2 per cent in 202-22 New Delhi: The Indian economy is estimated to grow at 7 per cent in the 2022-23 fiscal, down from 8.7 per cent a year...
Finance ministry and PFRDA discuss ways to improve pension amount for govt employees in NPS framework
Supratim Bandyopadhyay, Chairman,PFRDA On launching of the Minimum Assured Return Scheme (MARS) under the National Pension System (NPS), PFRDA Chairman Supratim Bandyopadhyay said the board is considering it and hopefully in the next 7-10 days, approvals can take...