by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 2, 2021 | Banking & Bancassurance, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Pension & Social Security, Policy, Technology
New Delhi: India Post expects to make the Post Office Savings Bank interoperable with other bank accounts by April and will focus on enhancing digitisation of all services in 2021, a senior official of the department said. The postal department during the lockdown was...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 2, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Regulation, Technology
Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday said it has constructed a composite Digital Payments Index (DPI) with March 2018 as the base period to capture the extent of digitisation of payments across the country. "The DPI for March 2019 and March...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 2, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
PARIS: Around 50 countries around the world have already started vaccinating their people against Covid-19, barely a year after the first alert by China signalled the start of the epidemic. Here is a snapshot: China, where the pandemic first emerged, was also the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 2, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
Israel could well become the first country to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, health officials said on Thursday, with over 10% (1 million) of the population already having received the first of two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine by the 12th day of a...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 2, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance, Risk Management, Technology
WASHINGTON: The number of people killed in large commercial airplane crashes rose in 2020 to 299 worldwide, even as the number of crashes fell by more than 50%, a Dutch consulting firm said on Friday.Aviation consulting firm To70 said in 2020 there were 40...
