by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 4, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
New Delhi: Airfare bands are not going to be permanent and will be done away with as soon as normal flight operations resume, Civil Aviation Secretary Pradeep Singh Kharola said on Thursday. His comments come against the backdrop of restrictions in place on...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 4, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: Over 21 per cent of the population, aged 10 years and above, showed evidence of past exposure to COVID-19 in the ICMR's latest national serosurvey, the government said on Thursday, noting that a large proportion of people are still vulnerable to...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 4, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Pension & Social Security
New Delhi: As much as Rs 62,500 crore has accumulated as provident fund of some 1.23 lakh high net-worth individuals (HNIs) in the retirement fund corpus for 2018-19, with a staggering Rs 103 crore accumulating in the account of the highest contributor, sources...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 4, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Risk Management, Technology
A team led by researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) based biometric application to continuously monitor and accurately detect the identity of a home quarantined COVID-19 patient. The mobile...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 4, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: India's cumulative COVID-19 positivity rate has declined to 5.42 per cent while the weekly positivity rate (last week) was recorded at 1.82 per cent, the Union Health Ministry said on Thursday. Eight states and union territories, which have a weekly...