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Senior citizens can cancel gift deed if their children fail to take care of them: HC
The bench said section 23 of the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents...
Over 68 lakh cancer treatments done under PMJAY, majority in rural areas: Nadda
J P Nadda,Union Health Minister Those suffering from cancer and are...
Ship insurers sail into unknown with Ukraine grain risks after deal reached
"There are a number of underwriters who have expressed an interest in writing this risk and one or two brokers also. It may well be a consortium that is formed," Neil Roberts, head of marine and aviation with the Lloyd's Market Association, told Reuters. A number of...
African swine fever reported in two Kerala farms
The disease was confirmed among pigs of two farms in the district after the samples were tested at the National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases in Bhopal "Now the test result has confirmed the infection. Directions have been issued to cull 300 pigs of the...
34 pc of coastline under varying degrees of erosion for past 28 years: Govt
"Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) has not estimated the percentage of loss specifically due to coastal erosion, however, INCOIS has estimated Coastal Vulnerability Index (CVI) for the Indian coastline, which is a cumulative impact of...
Govt shortlists 7 GMs for selecting CMDs of New India and AIC
The general managers who have been shortlisted are- M Rajeswari Singh, Agriculture Insurance Company(AIC), BS Rahul,(AIC),N Ramaswamy, presently heading GIC Re’s London branch, Neerja Kapur, NIA, Girija Subramanian, GIC Re, Rashmi Bajpai, Oriental Insurance...
Most major nations lag in acting on climate-fighting goals: Scientists
The tracker describes as insufficient the policies and actions of the world's top two carbon polluters, China and the U.S., as well as Japan, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia. It calls Russia and South Korea's polices highly insufficient, and Iran comes in as critically...
Jan Aushadhi Kendras helped citizens save Rs 5,300 cr in FY22: Govt
As of June 30, 2022, about 8,742 Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Kendras (PMBJKs) have been opened across the country under the Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana (PMBJP) New Delhi: Sales of Jan Aushadhi Kendras stood at Rs 893.56 crore in the last...
Foreign insurers in Malaysia given 2023 cutoff to reduce stakes in their local ventures
AIA Group Ltd., Prudential Plc, Tokio Marine Holdings Inc. and Zurich Insurance Group AG are among the international insurers with ventures in the Southeast Asian nation Overseas insurance companies were allowed to hold a maximum 70% in local firms, but it was mostly...
EPFO likely to enhance investment limit in equities to 20 per cent
The proposal to revise the limit to 20 percent has been vetted and approved by the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation's (EPFO) advisory body Finance Audit and Investment Committee (FAIC) New Delhi: Retirement fund body EPFO is likely to approve this month a...
‘Gloomy’ information suggests ‘foreign hand’ behind cloudburst: KCR
K Chandrashekhar Rao,Chief Minister,Telangana ''A new method called cloudburst has come. They say there are conspiracies around it. We don’t know how far it is true. Some foreign countries are deliberately doing cloudbursts in our country. Earlier, they did it in Leh...
Wage-Revision: PSU general insurance unions threaten “2-day complete strike” from July 27th, demand pay parity with LIC
``In case of any failure on the part of our managements to revert on priority basis, we shall have no choice but to observe 2-day complete strike in PSGICs and GIC Re on 27th & 28th July 2022 and any other IR action as warranted, in consonance with the sentiments...