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JSW MG Motor India announces an industry-first extended assured buy back program for its EVs
“With our industry-first MG Value Promise Program (Assured Buyback), facilitated by Lockton India Insurance Broking and Advisory in partnership with Zuno General Insurance, we now offer an assured resale value where a customer has option to choose the tenure from 3 to...
Experts advocated setting up of “micro-hospitals” to curb curb India’s deaths due to NCDs
Hospital bed density lags at just 0.55 per 1,000 population -- far below the WHO's 3 per 1,000 benchmarks -- leading to overcrowded facilities, long wait times, and variability in care quality New Delhi: As India's healthcare system buckles under a non-communicable...
Jan1 Renewals:Market softens as reinsurers grow capital following strong returns, GC Report
Dean Klisura, President and CEO, Guy Carpenter Reinsurer return on equity is estimated to be 17%, with dedicated reinsurance capital growing another 9% in 2025, said the report.Insured catastrophe losses are estimated to be $121 billion in 2025, 18% below the...
Jan 1 Renewals: Asia Pacific rate reductions approaching 20% for non-loss impacted accounts, says Aon
Alfonso Valera, International CEO for Reinsurance Solutions at Aon, said: “Buyers returning to the market will find a wide range of complementary reinsurance and capital products. Frequency covers and earnings protection are increasingly available. We are seeing...
New York to require social media platforms to display mental health warnings
"Keeping New Yorkers safe has been my top priority since taking office, and that includes protecting our kids from the potential harms of social media features that encourage excessive use," New York Governor Kathy Hochul said in a statement. Social media platforms...
Indian Healthcare-2025:Robust growth in AB-PMJAY and digital delivery, AI next frontier
The health ministry's initiative, launch in October last year, to expand the scope of the scheme by providing free treatment benefits of up to Rs 5 lakh per year to all senior citizens aged 70 years and above, irrespective of their socio-economic status, through...
Gold, Silver to shine bright; Copper to consolidate in 2026: Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs also highlights potential upside risks from private investors, noting that "gold ETFs account for just 0.17 per cent of US private financial portfolios," and estimating that "every 1bp increase in the gold share of US financial portfolios… raises the...
India poised to become 3rd-largest economy with GDP of $7.3 trillion by 2030:Govt
“India is among the world’s fastest-growing major economies and is well-positioned to sustain this momentum. With the ambition of attaining high middle-income status by 2047 -- the centenary year of its independence -- the country is building on strong foundations of...
Indian Insurance Broking Industry-2026:Future trends and challenges
The old ways of doing business are no longer enough. Brokers are dealing with tighter regulation, rising costs, higher client expectations, and a risk landscape that keeps getting more complex. These pressures are forcing a rethink, not just of tools and processes,...
Definition of Aravalli hills and ranges: SC keeps in abeyance its November 20 directions
"We deem it necessary to direct that the recommendations submitted by the committee, together with the findings and directions stipulated by this court in the judgment of November 20, 2025, be kept in abeyance," the bench said while hearing a suo motu case titled 'In...
Country’s 70% provided with free medical treatment up to Rs 15 lakh: Amit Shah
Amit Shah, Home Minister Amit Shah, Home Minister, said the Indian Medical Association's focus must shift from illness to wellness as the core concept. Along with medicines, greater emphasis should be placed on providing advice and guidance for a healthy lifestyle....
Civil aviation ministry’s 24×7 control room seeks to address passengers’ issues promptly
The complaints vary from flight cancellations to lost baggage to even meal not being served onboard. New Delhi: To address air travellers' grievances more promptly, the civil aviation ministry has set up the Passenger Assistance Control Room (PACR) that functions...
Govt notifies guidelines of 2 shipbuilding initiatives with Rs 44 700 cr outlay
The scheme also includes a Credit Risk Coverage Framework, offering government-backed insurance for pre-shipment, post-shipment and vendor-default risks to improve project bankability and financial resilience New Delhi: The Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways...
Groundwork started for data protection board; online office software ready: IT Secretary Krishnan
"On data protection board, we've started the process of putting in place the way to identify members and call for their nomination to put them in the positions and posts which the board would need…we are working on that right now, because we have to get it...
Whole-time directors’ vigilance matters of PSU banks, insurers to be reported promptly:FinMin
The directive from the Department of Financial Services (DFS) under the ministry follows several instances where adverse information about board-level appointees was not promptly reported.Without citing any specific case, the advisory issued earlier this month, said,...
Indian aviation-2026: Awaits smoother skies & AI171 crash report
As the New Year dawns, aviation stakeholders as well as the common people will be looking for the much-awaited probe report into the AI171 plane crash on June 12, 2025 apart from more safe helicopter operations, especially in the Kedarnath valley, and less steep...
Foreign investors exit Indian stocks at record scale; withdraw Rs 1.6 lakh cr in 2025
This makes 2025 the worst year for equity flows, surpassing the previous record outflow of Rs 1.21 lakh crore in 2022 and coming after a marginal net inflow of just Rs 427 crore in 2024. In contrast, 2023 had seen a robust Rs 1.71 lakh crore equity investment. New...
Obesity treatment drugs to be new growth engine for pharma industry: Sun Pharma
"Improving access to GLP-1 treatments in the coming years will be a key driver for the Indian pharmaceutical industry, helping address the growing burden of lifestyle diseases such as obesity and diabetes. Combined with AI-enabled digital tools for early disease...