by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 30, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health
KATHMANDU: Nepal has ordered schools to close for four days after air pollution climbed to hazardous levels, forcing millions of students to stay home across the country. Nepal, with a population of 30 million people, is located in the Himalayas between China and...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 30, 2021 | Articles, Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Non-Life, Reinsurance
Zurich: Global insured losses out of natural catastrophes in 2020 were USD 89 billion, making it the fifth-costliest year on sigma records since 1970. According to Swiss Re's Sigma report, released on Tuesday, natural catastrophes in 2020 caused global...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 30, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
Ottwa: Canada's National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) has recommended that the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine should not be used in adults under 55 years of age at this time, while rare cases of serious blood clots were being further probed. In a...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 30, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: Six states, including Maharashtra, Punjab, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh, have reported a high number of daily COVID-19 cases and account for 78.56 per cent of the 56,211 fresh cases recorded in the country in a day, the Union Health Ministry said on...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 30, 2021 | Indian News, Pension & Social Security
New Delhi: Officers, employees and retired staff of Nabard on Tuesday went on a one-day strike seeking pension updation that has been pending for two decades. National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) is the apex agri-finance institution set up by...
