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In fact, some 88 per cent of the survey respondents – representatives of C-suites, executives, and risk professionals across 19 industries – identified cyber-attacks as the top-most risk. This was followed by data fraud or theft (85%), volatile weather (84%), severe energy price shock (81%) and major financial failure (81%) among the other top risks for India Inc.
India & China may record 10.50% medical inflation in 2019:Willis Survey
New India’s net profit falls by 22 % to Rs 963.82 cr in H1 2018-19
Pilot’s error triggers hijack scare on Kandahar-bound plane at IGI airport
India ranks 2nd last in pension schemes, Netherlands, Denmark on top: Study
Measuring 34 pension systems (34 countries), the Index showed that the Netherlands and Denmark (with scores of 80.3 and 80.2, respectively) both offer A-Grade world-class retirement income systems with good benefits — clearly demonstrating their preparedness for tomorrow’s ageing world. Meanwhile, countries with the highest value for the adequacy sub-index are Germany (79.9) and France (79.5) with Mexico (37.3) and India (38.7) having the lowest values.
After Google, Facebook scraps forced arbitration in sexual harassment cases
The technology industry, known for its groundbreaking products as well as its trendsetting office culture, has gone to considerable lengths in recent years to keep work-force disputes out of the court system. Forcing employee complaints into arbitration has become as common as free lunches and shuttle buses to the office.
IndiGo upgrades 125 orders of A320neo jets for a bigger sister model
Indigo, one of the few Indian carriers with enough cash to aggressively expand, has been mapping out a way to build a long-haul, low-cost business taking passengers from places like New Delhi to London, with a stop in, say, Istanbul. It’s been weighing whether to place an order for Airbus’s A330neo or Boeing Co.’s 787 wide-bodies, but the bigger narrowbodies it just converted to could help satisfy that requirement — especially if the carrier opts to take the longer-range A321 variant.
Central govt staff to get pension payment order on day of retirement: Govt
India witnesses over 4.36 lakh cyberattacks from Russia, US
FPIs infuse Rs 48 bn on rupee rise, oil prices drop
Cyclone ‘Gaja’ to intensify in next 24 hours
Gales reaching 80-90 kms per hour was likely over Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Andhra Pradesh. Speaking to reporters, Area Cyclone Warning Centre Director S Balachandran said coastal areas of north Tamil Nadu would experience moderate rainfall and heavy rainfall in isolated places from the night of November 14.
WHO guidelines: Management of physical health conditions in adults with severe mental disorders
People with SMD have a 2-3 times higher average mortality compared to the general population, which translates to a 10-20 year reduction in life expectancy . People with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia have been shown to have higher rates of mortality in both high and low-income settings. The majority of these premature deaths are due to physical health conditions.
Monitoring Delhi pollution, will impose emergency measures if needed: EPCA
A thick haze engulfed Delhi on Thursday as it recorded its worst air quality of the year the morning after Diwali, with the pollution level entering “severe-plus emergency” category or ten times the permissible limit due to rampant bursting of toxic firecrackers in gross violation of a Supreme Court order, authorities said.
India’s GDP growth & Puzzling data baffle economists
The old series was easier to forecast for people outside of government because it was based essentially on an index of industrial production and the first estimates of agriculture. In the new series the government has added quarterly results of listed companies and sales tax data, which isn’t available in the public domain, said Pronab Sen, Country Director for the India Programme of the International Growth Centre
Italy’s Generali to stop insuring new coal plants
Generali’s action, which comes ahead of a United Nations climate change conference in Poland in December, is the latest by a big insurance company that targets the coal industry as part of efforts move towards a lower carbon economy.In late 2017, French insurer AXA said it planned to disinvest further from the coal industry. Others that have taken steps include Scor, Swiss Re and Zurich Insurance.
India’s economic growth held back due to demonetisation, GST: Raghuram Rajan
“The two successive shocks of demonetisation and the GST had a serious impact on growth in India. Growth has fallen off interestingly at a time when growth in the global economy has been peaking up,” he said delivering the second Bhattacharya Lectureship on the Future of India. A growth rate of 7 percent per year for 25 years is “very very strong” growth, but in some sense, this has become the new Hindu rate of growth, which earlier used to be 3.5 percent, Rajan said.
Insurtech:Number of insurance patents filed jumps 40% in a year
RPC says that insurance patents filed last year were for innovations as diverse as the use of a system that checks whether a self-driving car is operating autonomously and switches between insurance policies automatically, and a mobile app to speed up the claims process for people affected by natural disasters.
Baby boom for some nations, bust for others: study
Ninety-one nations, mainly in Europe and North and South America, weren’t producing enough children to sustain their current populations, according to the IHME study.But in Africa and Asia fertility rates continued to grow, with the average woman in Niger giving birth to seven children during her lifetime.