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No plan to levy GST on UPI transactions exceeding Rs 2,000: Centre
Pankaj Chaudhary, Minister of State of Finance Pankaj Chaudhary, Minister of State of Finance, said in the Rajya Sabha that "there is no recommendation of levying GST on UPI transactions of over Rs 2.000 from the GST Council”. New Delhi: The government has reiterated...
Insurance brokers should maintain high governance standards and business ethics: IRDAI member
Girija Subramaniam, CMD, New India Assurance Rakesh Jain, CEO, Reliance General Insurance,Satyajit Tripathy, member, Distribution, IRDAI , Naveen Chandra Jha, MD & CEO, SBI General Insurance, Abhilash Sridharan, Partner, McKinsey & Company at a panel...
ICMR study found Covid vaccination didn’t raise risk of unexplained sudden deaths among young adults, Nadda
J P Nadda,Union Health Minister It has also been revealed that Covid vaccination does not appear to increase the risk, whereas, the role of underlying health issues, genetic predisposition and risky lifestyle choices does play a role in unexplained sudden deaths,...
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AXA wins $908 million UK court ruling against Santander over protection insurance
AXA sued at London's High Court in 2021 over losses related to over 650,000 individual customer complaints about PPI policies, one of Britain's costliest retail financial scandals, with banks paying out around 40 billion pounds in compensation. LONDON: French insurer...
IRDAI imposes a stiff penalty of Rs 3.39 crore on Star Health for violating cyber security laws
A significant data leak from Star Health Insurance was reported in Aug, 2024, affecting approximately 3.1 crore customer records. The data, including mobile numbers, PAN details, addresses, and medical information, was allegedly accessible through a website created by...
SBI Life’s net profit rises 14% to Rs594 crore in Q1 FY 25
SBI Life's Value of New Business (VoNB) stands at Rs.1,088 crores with a growth of 12% during the reporting period. The company's VoNB Margin was at 27.4% in Q1FY 25 Mumbai: SBI Life Insurance, the largest private sector life insurer in the country, has recorded a...
Christiern Dart appointed as CEO of MS Amlin
,Christiern Dart, CEO-Designate, MS Amlin Christiern brings more than three decades of leadership experience in international (re)insurance markets and will assume his role at a time of continued high performance at MS Amlin LONDON: MS Amlin, the Lloyd’s global...
Russian plane with nearly 50 aboard crash, 48 killed
The plane, whose tail number showed it was built in 1976, was operated by a Siberia-based airline called Angara MOSCOW: Forty-eight people have died in a plane crash in Russia's Far East, the head of the country's Amur region said in a statement Thursday. The An-24...
Former finance secy Ajay Seth appointed as new IRDAI chairman for 3 yrs
Ajay Seth, Chairman-designate, IRDAI Seth, a 1987-batch Indian Administrative Service(IAS) officer from the Karnataka cadre, retired in June end New Delhi: Finally, Ajay Seth, 60, former Finance Secretary, Ministry of Finance, has been appointed as the new chairman of...
UN’s top court says failing to protect planet from climate change could violate international law
The case is led by the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu and backed by more than 130 countries The court also said a "clean, healthy and sustainable environment" is a human right. Enshrining a sustainable environment as a human right paves the way for other legal...
Munich Re CFO Christoph Jurecka to become chairman from Jan 1,2026
Jurecka has been with the Group since 2011 and will succeed Joachim Wenning. In 2019, he had joined Munich Re’s Board of Management as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Munich: Munich Re, the largest international reinsurer, on Wednesday has appointed Christoph Jurecka,...
Angel one forms Rs 400 crore life insurance JV with Singapore’s Livwell
Wilf Blackburn, ex-regional CEO of Prudential Asia, is proposed to chair the proposed venture, while Nikhil Verma, former deputy CEO of Aviva Vietnam, is proposed to lead as CEO Mumbai: Domestic brokerage Angel One on Wednesday announced a plan to partner Singapore's...
Irdai proposes internal ombudsman for insurers to address claims up to Rs 50 lakh
"Applicable to all insurers (except reinsurers) with more than three years of operations, the framework mandates the appointment of an internal insurance ombudsman to address complaints involving claims up to Rs 50 lakh," it said. New Delhi: Irdai on Wednesday...
ICICI Lombard and AWS enable seamless business continuity with automated Disaster Recovery solution
ICICI Lombard in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), has completed a major upgrade of its disaster recovery (DR) infrastructure from AWS Asia- Pacific (Mumbai) Region to AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region, backed by a fully automated, cloud-native setup....
FM expands footprint in India with new innovative centre in Bengaluru and sales office in Mumbai
Complementing the Bengaluru expansion, FM will also open a new sales office in Mumbai later this year. The Mumbai office will help the company strengthen its presence in the country’s financial capital, bringing it closer to key clients and decision-makers Bengaluru:...
Indian cities need $2.4 trillion for climate infrastructure by 2050, World Bank says
The number of Indians living in cities is projected to nearly double to 951 million by 2050 from 480 million in 2020. But erratic rainfall, heatwaves, and rising sea levels are leaving urban areas in the world's most populous nation increasingly vulnerable, the bank...
Govt clears appointments of 5 EDs in PSU general insurance cos
The government on Tuesday has cleared the appointments of five executive directors(EDs) in different PSU general re/insurance companies. Anjana Saxena and Amandeep Singh Grover have been posted as EDs in Oriental Insurance Company, Jayashri Balkrishna in GIC-Re,...