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Health and safety overtaking cyber as top risk for APAC directors and officers: WTW survey
“The responsibilities incumbent upon directors and officers in APAC continue to evolve and become more nuanced, with aspects, such as employee safety, ESG-related obligations and cybersecurity-related pressures to be cognisant of. All set with a backdrop of...
Sompo appoints Richard Allen as Commercial P&C Insurance Chief Underwriting Officer,Global Markets
LONDON: Sompo on Tuesday appointed Richard “Rick” Allen as its chief underwriting officer (CUO) for its Global Markets Commercial P&C insurance business. Based in the London, Allen will work closely with the commercial P&C insurance chief underwriting officers...
Lloyd’s and UNCDF to run parametric insurance training in climate vulnerable countries
Initially focussing on building and scaling solutions across Fiji and the Pacific Islands, the partnership will also seek to replicate the model in other regions, including Asia and parts of Africa London: Lloyd’s, the world’s leading marketplace for insurance and...
India’s buildings sector to overshoot country’s entire carbon budget: Report
India's buildings sector currently accounts for 25 per cent of the country's GHG emissions. This is expected to rise further as most of the buildings that will exist in the country in the next 30 years are yet to be built New Delhi: Emissions from India's buildings...
Bangladesh, Pakistan and India bottom in air quality rankings in 2023, data shows
Average concentrations of PM2.5 - small airborne particles that damage the lungs - reached 79.9 micrograms per cubic metre in Bangladesh in 2023, and 73.7 micrograms in Pakistan. The WHO recommends no more than 5 micrograms Singapore: Pakistan remained one of the...
Patanjali advertising case: SC asks Ramdev, Balkrishna to appear before it
The apex court was hearing a plea of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) alleging a smear campaign by Ramdev against the vaccination drive and modern medicines New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought personal appearance of Yoga guru Ramdev and Patanjali...
Delhi world’s most polluted capital city again: Report
It is estimated that 1.36 billion people in India experience PM2.5 concentrations exceeding the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended annual guideline level of 5 micrograms per cubic metre, the report said. Also, 1.33 billion people, 96 per cent of the Indian...
India surpasses WHO guidelines with 1:900 doc-to-population ratio: Bhubaneswar Kalita
''As we strive for universal health coverage, it is imperative to empower communities with knowledge and resources to safeguard their wellbeing. The government has increased the number of medical colleges and we will have one medical college in every district and...
Lockton makes 3 key appointments for its India ops
Us based Lockton, which has set up its operations in India recently, has appointed Mukul Bhatia, Irfan Shirwani, and Prasanna Hunur as team members in the country .These key additions will support Sandeep Dadia, chief executive officer of Lockton in India, in driving...
IRDAI Board meets today, to approve Bima Sugam
Bima Sugm will be officially called as Rashtriya Bima Sugam Nigam Ltd, built with an intial corpus of Rs 200 crore and the shareholding of the company will be widely held amongst life insurers, general insurers and health insurers with no single entity having...
India’s navy takes control of bulk carrier hijacked by Somali pirates and evacuates crew
Activity from Somali pirates has dropped in recent years, but there has been growing concern it could resume amid the political uncertainty and wider chaos in the region that has included attacks on ships by Yemen’s Houthi rebels New Delhi: The Indian navy said late...
Swiss Re’s Thorsten Steinmann to succeed Michael Pickel at Hannover Re
Thorsten Steinmann joins from Swiss Re, where he was most recently responsible for the reinsurance business in Germany, the Nordics, Austria, Central and Eastern Europe, the Netherlands, and Switzerland Hannover: The Supervisory Boards of Hannover Rück SE and E+S...
Indian insurance industry receives Rs 54,000 crore FDI since December 2014: DFS Secy Joshi
Financial Services Secretary Vivek Joshi said that the Assets Under Management (AUM) nearly tripled to Rs 60.04 lakh crore as on March 31, 2023 as compared to Rs 21.07 lakh crore in 2013-14, while total insurance premium recorded more than two-fold jump to Rs 10.4...
Star Health Insurance sets up operations in GIFT City
Anand Roy, MD & CEO of Star Health Insurance said, “This is a pivotal step in our expansion strategy, extending our reach beyond Indian borders and providing seamless access to our health insurance offerings for Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) and the global Indian...
“Government in process of creating dedicated deeptech startup policy,” says DPIIT Secretary RK Singh
Rajesh Kumar Singh, the Secretary of the Department for Promotion of Industry Emphasizing the importance of government support for startups, Singh highlighted that beyond funding, startups require orders from the government to kickstart their journey effectively. He...
Water crisis in India’s silicon valley presents pressing challenge, say industry players
"Companies have started giving work from home, as employees refuse to come to office citing water shortage. This is of course impacting operations because there is a whole new setup that needs to be done to cater to the sudden shift," co-founder and CEO of Kuku FM,...
FPIs injects over Rs 40,000 cr in Indian equities on strong economic growth
The inflows came following a modest investment of Rs 1,539 crore in February and an outflow of Rs 25,743 crore in January, data with the depositories snowed New Delhi: FPIs came back strongly to invest in the Indian equity markets, buying shares worth Rs 40,710 crore...
Centre seeks more time to frame policy on online sale of medicines, Delhi HC grants ‘last opportunity’
The high court, which was hearing several petitions seeking a ban on the "illegal" sale of drugs online and challenging the draft rules published by the ministry to further amend the Drugs and Cosmetics Rules, listed the matter for further hearing on July 8 New Delhi:...