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Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) have been consistently buying equities since June. Before that, they pulled out Rs 34,252 crore in April-May New Delhi: Foreign investors have infused Rs 27,856 crore in domestic equities in the first fortnight this month, owing to...
India jumps to Tier 1 in Global Cybersecurity Index 2024
India topped the chart for adopting measures like legal, technical, capacity development and cooperation as areas of relative strength. Organisational measures was a listed as an area of potential growth for the country New Delhi: India has jumped to Tier 1 in the...
Buffett’s insurance leader Ajit Jain sells large part of Berkshire stake
Ajait Jain, vice chairman, Berkshire Hathaway Jain’s selling occurred five days after Berkshire’s share price peaked above $727,000, and less than two weeks after its market valuation first topped $1 trillion Ajit Jain, the longtime top insurance executive at Warren...
Gastro problems could heighten Parkinson’s disease risk by 76%, study finds
Gastrointestinal problems are known to be common in patients suffering from neurodegenerative disorders, the authors said Digestive problems, including ulcers in one's food pipe or stomach, could increase the risk of Parkinson's disease by 76 per cent, according to a...
CCI probe finds Amazon, Walmart’s Flipkart breached antitrust laws
The investigation's findings are the latest setback for Amazon and Flipkart in a country where they continue to face criticism for their business practices from smaller retailers, who say their businesses have suffered in recent years due to deep discounts offered...
Marsh looks for a new president for its Broking vertical in India
It is reliably learnt that the company is keen to have an insider from the Indian insurance industry to be appointed as a president of Marsh India Insurance Brokers and has hired a headhunter for the exercise Singapore: US based Marsh McLennan, the largest...
DBS looks for bancassurance partnership in India and Taiwan
The Singapore-based lender is working with Goldman Sachs Group Inc. as an adviser on potential bancassurance agreements for those markets, the people said, asking not to be identified because the deliberations are private DBS Group Holdings Ltd. is considering forming...
Govt to spend Rs10,900 crore to enhance electric vehicle mobility
The primary objective of the PM E-DRIVE scheme is to expedite the adoption of EVs by providing upfront incentives for their purchase, as well as by facilitating the establishment of essential charging infrastructure for EVs. The PM E-DRIVE scheme aims to promote EVs...
National Health Authority and IIT Kanpur sign MoU for development of digital public goods for AI in Healthcare
Under this MoU, a federated learning platform across a variety of machine learning model pipelines, a quality-preserving database, an open benchmarking platform for comparing & validating AI models, and a consent management system for research under Ayushman...
Govt approves Rs 12461 crore budgetary support for cost of enabling infrastructure for Hydro Electric Projects
The government has been taking several policy initiatives to address the issues impeding Hydro Power development, viz., remote locations, hilly areas, lack of infrastructure etc New Delhi: The center today has approved the proposal of the Ministry of Power for...
Govt extends Rs 5 lakh health covers free to all citizens of 70 yr and above irrespective of income
This aims to benefit approximately 4.5 crore families with six crore senior citizens with Rs 5 Lakh free health insurance cover on a family basis New Delhi: The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has approved the health coverage to all the...
Govt clears ‘Mission Mausam’ with an outlay of Rs2,000 cr for transformative initiatives on climate-related science
The mission's focus will include improving observations and understanding for providing highly accurate and timely weather and climate information across temporal and spatial scales, including monsoon forecasts, alerts for air quality, extreme weather events and...
GST Council defers any decision on reduction of taxes on Health and Life covers
The council has recommended to constitute a Group of Ministers (GoM) to holistically look into the issues pertaining to GST on the life insurance and health insurance.The GoM members are Bihar, UP, West Bengal, Karnataka, Kerala, Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, Meghalaya,...
Health ministry releases ‘Health Dynamics of India 2022-23’ report
Apurva Chandra,Union Health Secretary The publication gives Comparative Analysis, District-Wise Data: Offering district-level details of health facilities, Rural, Urban, and Tribal Focus, details about infrastructure and manpower in rural, urban, and tribal areas,...
Flood fury causes massive damage in Telangana. State govt put initial estimate at Rs 5,438 cr
Crops have been damaged in about five lakhs of acres, canals and ponds breached, bridges, roads and railway tracks were washed away and electric sub-stations and electric poles were damaged.state government has put the initial estimate at Rs 5,438 crore. Hyderabad: A...
GST Council meet: Taxation on insurance premium, rate rationalisation key hopes
Nirmala Sithraman,Union Finance Minister The meeting is going to deliberate upon whether to reduce the tax burden on health insurance from the current 18 per cent or exempt certain categories of individuals, like senior citizens. New Delhi: With an aim to ensure less...
Squatter demands Rs 50 crore to vacate Bima Sugam’s domain name
Details like, when exactly he developed the site, whether he knew about IRDAI’ Bima Sugam project by the time he started developing the website, which is being talked about for almost last two years, what activities he was undertaking through the site, are not known...
Average household spending on food less than half for 1st time in modern India
However, this decline was more substantial for the bottom 20 per cent of the households in rural and urban areas. In all likelihood, this reflects the effectiveness of the government's food security policies, which provide free food grains to large numbers of...