by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 6, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Life, Non-Life, Pandemic, Pension & Social Security, Policy
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday launched a scheme and an online portal to provide financial assistance to families who lost their loved ones to COVID-19 and asked officials not to find faults in their claim applications. Under the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 6, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: India's COVID-19 deaths relative to infections hit a record high in June after cases peaked in early May, an analysis of government data shows, amid pressure on authorities to accurately report deaths from a second wave of the virus. A big rise...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 6, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
LUCKNOW: Asha Devi doesn't remember how many meals she has skipped as she struggles to feed her family of seven in a remote corner of northern India where the novel coronavirus is compounding old problems of rural debt and poverty. Devi, 35, had to mortgage her...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 6, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life, Risk Management, Technology
Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, MSMEs Nitin Gadkari on Monday said that safety audits have been mandated at all stages of road development to reduce accidents. Inaugurating a virtual symposium on vehicle crash safety, he said, "India and other...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 5, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Life, Non-Life
When it came to coronavirus vaccination, the third time was the charm for Esther Jones, a dialysis nurse in rural Oregon. After two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine failed to jolt her immune system into producing antibodies, she sought out a third, this...