by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 12, 2024 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life, Risk Management
As soon as temperatures breached 43.6C in Ahmedabad, Makwana and thousands of other women were told that ICICI Lombard, an insurance company, would pay them a portion of their daily wages. The Self-Employed Women’s Association labour union runs the insurance...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 12, 2024 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
While the H9N2 virus typically tends to cause mild illness, the United Nations agency said that further sporadic human cases could occur as this virus is one of the most prevalent avian influenza viruses circulating in poultry in different regions New Delhi: The World...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 11, 2024 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Policy
“India will remain the fastest-growing of the world’s largest economies, although its pace of expansion is expected to moderate. After a high growth rate in FY2023/24, steady growth of 6.7 per cent per year, on average, is projected for the three fiscal...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 11, 2024 | Data, Eco/Invest/Demography, Policy
In absolute terms, the monthly per capita consumption expenditure in the country’s rural areas shot up to Rs 2,008 in 2022-23 from Rs 1,430 in 2011-12 Urban India also recorded a robust gain of 33 per cent with per capita household consumption expenditure rising to Rs...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 5, 2024 | Indian News, Non-Life
Benjamin Watsa, chairman, Fairfax India Holdings Corp The firm also hired insider Gopalakrishnan Soundarajan as its new CEO, with effect from July 1, replacing Chandran Ratnaswami, who will transition to the role of executive vice chairman Toronto: Fairfax India...