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Taiwan to deploy investment from insurance funds to help finance island’s green energy
Taiwan is phasing out coal-fired power stations and shifting to...
EU to review corporate liability under Europe’s toughest ESG Law
Plans to cut reporting requirements — especially for small and...
India’s annual green finance is just one-fourth of its needs, finds study
The report estimates that for India to achieve its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris agreement, the country requires approximately Rs 162.5 lakh crore (USD 2.5 trillion) from 2015 to 2030, or roughly Rs 11 lakh crore (USD 170 billion) per...
Wage Revision: PSU general insurance industry unions stick to their demand of pay parity with LIC
``Pay scales offered to us as on 01st August 2017 with loading factor of 10 per cent put us in most disadvantage when compared to those granted to LICI and ECGC,’’ said unions in their letter to Suchita Gupta, chairperson of GIPSA, the official coordinating agency...
Finance ministry invites application for PFRDA chairperson post
Besides senior government officials, private sector employees who have worked at the level of CEO, CFO, COO or equivalent are also eligible to apply for the post. The position is also open for persons from an academic backgrounds New Delhi: The government has started...
No established mechanism to rank cities on pollution: Govt to Lok Sabha
''The government is aware that several private institutions and universities are ranking cities adopting different methodologies, different datasets and using different weightages to parameters. The data used for ranking is extracted primarily from satellite imagery,...
EPFO’s Rs 1.59 lakh crore investment in ETFs rises to Rs 2.26 lakh crore
The EPFO invests 85 per cent of the funds in debt instruments and 15 per cent of the investment is made in ETFs, as per the investment pattern notified by the government New Delhi: Retirement fund body EPFO has invested Rs 1,59,299.46 crore in Exchange Traded Funds...
Lok Sabha passes dill to promote non-fossil fuels
It also seeks to introduce new concepts such as carbon trading and mandate the use of non-fossil sources to ensure faster decarbonisation of the Indian economy and help achieve sustainable development goals in line with the Paris Agreement The amendments also seek to...
Malaysia to offer crop insurance to push food security Push
The Agro-Food Takaful Insurance Scheme will be launched through the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industries and will initially be offered to the nation’s 189,500 rice farmers, Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob said. The insurance cover will be expanded in stages...
Drought Risk: Soren seeks special package for J’khand, Bihar MP asks Centre to declare state drought-hit
Hemant Soren,Chief Minister,Jharkhand "This year, the state so far registered 50% deficit rainfall, with less than 20 per cent of the paddy sowing target achieved. Jharkhand is inching towards drought. I urge the Centre to approve a special package for Jharkhand in a...
Revamped plan to check air pollution in Delhi-NCR to come into force from October 1
If the situation turns ''severe'' (Stage III), authorities will have to enforce a ban on construction and demolition activities in NCR, except on essential projects (like railways, metros, airports, ISBTs, national security/defense-related projects of national...
Climate change making prediction difficult for weather agencies across world: IMD DG
Mrutyunjay Mohapatra,IMD, Director General The IMD is providing forecasts for 1,096 cities and towns, up from 350 stations in 2019. On climate change increasing the fragility of the Himalayas, he said, ''Climate change is a fact and we need to plan all our activities...