by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 21, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Pension & Social Security
New Delhi: Net new enrolments with retirement fund body EPFO grew 27.79 per cent to 13.36 lakh in January compared to the same month in 2020, according to the payroll data released on Saturday, providing a perspective on formal sector employment amid the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 21, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
New Delhi: India recorded 43,846 new coronavirus cases in a day, the highest single-day rise so far this year, taking the nationwide COVID-19 tally to 1,15,99,130, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Sunday. Registering an increase for the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 21, 2021 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
TOKYO: An earthquake struck off the coast of northeastern Japan on Saturday, shaking buildings and generating a tsunami of 1 metre in the same area devastated a decade ago by a quake and tsunami. The earthquake, with a magnitude of 7.2, hit off the coast of Miyagi...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 20, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
AstraZeneca said on Sunday its COVID-19 vaccine contains no pork-derived ingredients, countering an assertion in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, that the drug violates Islamic law. Indonesia’s highest Muslim clerical council, the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 20, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: The Covid-19 vaccine should be able to give good protection from the infection for eight to ten months, AIIMS director Randeep Guleria said on Saturday.He also said that no major side-effect of the vaccine has been recorded. “The Covid-19 vaccine...
