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The report suggested that regulators set up an independent Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) agency internally. The RIA would directly report to the board of the regulator, which includes members from the government and independent directors. MUMBAI: India's...
Closing Crisis Protection Gap: Leaders call for 10 fold higher finance to meet cost of future crises
Less than $1 of every $5,000 of crisis finance goes to low income countries in the form of prearranged finance. Annual global economic losses from unmitigated climate change are projected to range between $7 trillion and $38 trillion by 2050 The High-Level Panel on...
Lloyd’s appoints Alexandra Cliff as Chief Financial Officer
Alexandra Cliff Chief Financial Officer-designate, Lloyd's Alex has over 20 years of experience in the insurance industry, having held senior finance roles in insurance and broking firms including Direct Line Group, StarStone, and AJ Gallagher London: Lloyd’s, the...
K’taka health dept passes order to implement SC’s directive for patient’s right to die with dignity
"We have also come out with an Advance Medical Directive (AMD), or a living will, in which a patient can record their wishes about their medical treatment in the future. This important step, according to the minister, will bring great relief and a dignified sense of...
Alphabet’s Waymo to test its autonomous driving technology in over 10 new cities
After testing the Waymo Driver in multiple cities, the company says the technology is adapting successfully to new environments, leading to the expansion Alphabet’s self-driving unit Waymo announced on Wednesday it plans to expand testing of its autonomous driving...
Lawsuit accuses Amazon of secretly tracking consumers through cellphones
According to a proposed class action in San Francisco federal court, Amazon obtained “backdoor access” to consumers’ phones by providing tens of thousands of app developers with code known as Amazon Ads SDK to be embedded in their apps Amazon.com was sued on Wednesday...
Midair collision kills 67 people in the deadliest US air disaster in almost a quarter century
President Donald Trump told a White House news conference that no one survived.At least 28 bodies were pulled from the icy waters of the Potomac River after the helicopter apparently flew into the path of the American Airlines regional jet late Wednesday while it was...
Irdai caps health insurance premium hikes for senior citizens at 10 pc per annum
Irdai further said insurers will have to undertake prior consultation with it if the increase proposed in the premium for senior citizens is more than 10 per cent per annum. Hyderabad: Insurance regulator Irdai on Thursday directed insurers not to increase health...
Climate change will lead to higher deaths in Europe, Study shows
Researchers found that if planet-warming carbon emissions continue to rise, higher temperatures would result in some 2.3 million extra deaths by 2099 across 854 European cities. As Europe gets hotter, more people are expected to die from extreme heat, outweighing the...
Passenger plane catches fire at South Korean airport. All 176 people on board are evacuated
The Airbus A321 jet caught fire near the cabin’s back seats, Korea’s transport ministry said A fire broke out on a plane operated by Air Busan Co. at a local airport in South Korea late Tuesday, with everyone on board evacuated. Flight BX391, departing from Gimhae...
British and American ships tentatively return to the Red Sea
Six ships linked to the US and UK have successfully transited the area without coming under attack since Jan. 19, when the Houthis said they would stop targeting vessels associated with those countries, according to the Joint Maritime Information Center, which...
IPOs continue their bull run bucking market selloff
Demand for equity issuances including IPOs, placements and block trades is being partly driven by domestic mutual funds, which are seeing inflow of about $3 billion each month from mom-and-pop investors, Vora said. The trend will hold as long as the supply is...
Axis Max Life Insurance launches new cover
Axis Max Life Insurance has announced the launch of Axis Max Life Smart Term Plan Plus, a non-linked, non-participating, individual pure-risk life insurance plan designed to address diverse needs and life stages, with coverage tailored for customers’ needs. It offers...
Tata AIA Life launches Shubh Muhurat
Tata AIA Life Insurance has launched Shubh Muhurat, a life insurance solution designed to help Indian families financially prepare for weddings, a major cultural and social milestone. This plan offers capital guarantee with equity exposure, long-term wealth growth,...
Oceans are warming four times faster as earth traps more energy
Global ocean temperatures hit record highs for 450 days straight between 2023 and early 2024, which helped fuel massive hurricanes. While some of this warmth came from El Niño, the study showed that 44% of the record warmth was caused by oceans absorbing heat at a...
Sebi rejects competing open offer by US-based entity to pick majority stake in Religare
In a communication dated January 28 to REL, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) said, "letters submitted by Digvijay Laxmansinh Gaekwad are being returned since the same is not an exemption application in terms of Regulation 11 of SEBI (SAST)...
Property premium sees signs of hardening since Jan: NIA Chief
``I am happy to announce that we have been able to renew the prestigious government health scheme in the state of Rajasthan which will cover close to 1.3 crore families. The new policy which will start in February 2025 has seen a per-family premium increase of about...
World’s richest people lose $108 bn after tech startup DeepSeek selloff
DeepSeek’s dark-horse entry into the AI race, which it says cost just $5.6 million to develop, is a challenge to Silicon Valley’s narrative that massive capital spending is essential to developing the strongest models. That delivered a serious blow to billionaires...