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Union Budget 2025-26: Reshaping Indian insurance landscape
Tapan Singhel, MD&CEO, Bajaj General Insurance& Chairman,...
Budget 2025: FM exempts basic customs duty on 36 life-saving drugs; boosts medical tourism
Establishment of cancer care centres and enhanced social security...
Thailand becomes first Asian country to decriminalize cannabis
Under decriminalization, it is no longer a crime to grow and trade marijuana and hemp products, or use parts of the plant to treat illnesses. Cafes and restaurants can also serve cannabis-infused food and drinks -- but only if the products contain less than 0.2 per...
RBI raises key lending rate by 50 basis points to check raging inflation
Shaktikanta Das.Governor,RBI RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das said that real GDP for FY23 is seen at 7.2%, and that for Q1 at 16.2%, Q2 at 6.2%, Q3 at 4.1%, and Q4 at 4%. The inflation projection for the current financial year is seen at 6.7% and for Q1 at 7.5%, Q2 at...
Menopause discrimination cases are on a rise in UK Employment Courts
Employment tribunals involving menopause increased by 44% in 2021, with 23 cases referencing it compared to 16 the previous year, according to analysis of court data by Menopause Experts Group, a group that provides menopausal education services and information to...
Another rate hike on cards, say experts ahead of RBI’s MPC meeting
Recently in a TV interview, the governor said that the ''expectation of rate hike is a no-brainer, there will be some increase in the repo rates, but by how much I will not be able to tell now but to say that 5.15 may not be very accurate''. Mumbai: With inflation...
Crop insurance for pomegranate, other horticulture crops too: CM Bommai
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said 100 Primary Health Centres are being upgraded, and Rs 500 crore has been set aside for health care of senior citizens which includes free eye surgeries, distribution of cochlear hearing aids Chitradurga (Karnataka):...
Japan recorded biggest population drop in 2021
Japan has one of the fastest aging populations on earth, and the country's closed borders over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic have hastened the shrinkage of its workforce Japan recorded a record low number of births in 2021, prompting the biggest ever natural...
Govt approves 8.1% on EPF deposit for 2021-22
The 8.1 per cent EPF rate of interest is the lowest since 1977-78, when it stood at 8 per cent. The 8.5 per cent interest rate on EPF deposits for 2020-21 was decided by the Central Board of Trustees (CBT) in March 2021. New Delhi: The government has approved 8.1 per...
8,700 Jan Aushadhi Kendras providing 50-90 pc cost-effective medicines to beneficiaries across India
"At present, there are 8,700 shops in the country. We aim to make it 10,000 shops in the near future so that these shops are available in all the blocks across the country very soon," Ravi Dadhich, CEO, of Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Bureau of India (PMBI) The...
PFRDA rejects Chhattisgarh’s request to refund Rs 17,240 cr collected under NPS, CM urges Modi to intervene
Bhupesh Baghel,Chief Minister,Chhattisgarh PFRDA in a letter dated May 26 replied that there is no such provision available under which the funds, which are deposited both in the form of the government contribution and employees' contribution towards NPS, along with...
India one of few nations that have delivered on climate action commitments: Bhupender Yadav
Bhupender Yadav, Union Environment Minister Presenting India's ''national statement'' at the Stockholm +50 conference, Yadav said India has seen large-scale inclusive economic development in the last decade by disengaging the development process from environmental...