by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 20, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
Pfizer said Friday it is asking U.S. regulators to allow emergency use of its COVID-19 vaccine, starting the clock on a process that could bring limited first shots as early as next month and eventually an end to the pandemic — but not until after a long, hard...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 20, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic, Risk Management, Technology
New Delhi: The government on Friday released the backend code of Aarogya Setu in the open domain that will help people understand the functioning of the COVID-19 contact-tracing app and allay apprehensions they may have around privacy and security. The source code of...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 20, 2020 | Banking & Bancassurance, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Policy
MUMBAi: A working group at India’s central bank has recommended a series of changes that could transform the country’s banking landscape by paving the way for large industrial conglomerates to set up banks. The proposals could also allow large...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 20, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts
Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana High Court has said that marriage between first cousins is illegal. The court said that marriage which petitioner man wants to perform with a girl, who is his first cousin, was also per se illegal. "…the submission...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 20, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
MUMBAI: The head of an Indian company contracted to make AstraZeneca Plc's COVID vaccine said it could deliver it to health care workers and elderly Indians by January as the country's caseload of infections crossed nine million on Friday. The Serum Institute...