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In November last year, the Switzerland-based Zurich Insurance Group had agreed to acquire a 51 percent stake in Kotak Mahindra General Insurance Company for about Rs 4,051 crore. The proposed transaction valued Kotak Mahindra General Insurance Company at Rs 7,943...
Gadkari urges earth sciences minister to consider plea to continue district agromet units
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari A total 130 agromet field units (AMFUs) have been set up in the country's agro-climatic zones over the years in collaboration with the Indian Council of Agricultural Research. AMFUs provide advisories at the zonal level, each catering to...
H Venkatachalam appointed as new MD & CEO of Tata AIA Life, Tahilyani to head Tata Digital
H Venkatachalam, MD & CEO designate , Tata AIA Life Venkatachalam H. will take over as MD& CEO shortly from the incumbent Naveen Tahilyani, who has been made a non-executive director of Tata AIA Life Insurance Company. Mumbai: Tata AIA Life Insurance Company...
LIC launches a new unit linked plan
Siddhartha Mohanty, chairperson, Life Insurance Corporation launched a new unit linked plan- Index Plus- on Monday The new product is a Regular Premium, Individual Life Insurance Plan which offers life insurance cover cum savings throughout the term of the policy,...
Howden appoints David Shalders as its Group Chief Operating Officer
International broker Howden has appointed David Shalders as its Group Chief Operating Officer. With 30 years' experience, Shalders joins Howden from LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group), where he currently holds the role of Chief Operating Officer and Head of Integration.
Max Life Insurance appoints Sumit Madan as chief distribution officer
Max Life Insurance Company has appointed of Sumit Madan as senior director and chief distribution officer. In this role, Sumit will help drive the company’s business growth and expansion initiatives across distribution networks, including bancassurance, agency, and...
LIC shares cross Rs 1,000 mark, GIC re touches issue price of Rs 433 for the first time
The shares of New India Assurance(NIA) also rose almost 10 per cent and closed at Rs 265.10 in BSE New Delhi: The upward share prices of Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) and GIC Re, state-owned multinational reinsurer, on Monday brought cheers to the retail...
FSSAI approves amendments to streamline food safety and standards regulations
The Food Authority also approved a first-of-its-kind and comprehensive manuals of methods of analysis for ensuring regulatory compliance of the food products New Delhi: In a move that would facilitate ease of doing business through the concept of ‘One Nation, One...
120 patients in Israel exposed to medication error during hospital software malfunction
Of particular concern were patient discharge documents containing incorrect prescriptions. As the ministry received similar reports from other hospitals, it ordered an investigation Tel Aviv: Knesset lawmakers briefed by Health Ministry officials on Monday were told...
WTW launches world-first parametric insurance protection for endangered South Pacific coral reef system
Sarah Conway, Director and Ecosystem Resilience Lead, WTW, said: “We are grateful to BHP for supporting the design and implementation of the first coral reef insurance programme in Fiji. Building on lessons learned from our involvement with similar initiatives in...
Consortium launched to address growing burden of lung cancer in Asia-Pacific
Lung cancer has a significant health and economic impact in the APAC region. It is the most prevalent cancer, accounting for about 1 million deaths per year, and projected to rise to over 1.8 million by 2040 SINGAPORE: On World Cancer Day, a consortium called the Asia...
Cyber threat,public liability and geopolitics pose greatest risk to organisations: WTW survey
Ben MacCarthy, Head of Real Estate, Hospitality & Leisure, Asia, at WTW, said: “We found APAC firms pursuing innovative solutions through Proptech, with a focus on SMART buildings and improving ways data is accessed accurately especially to adapt to ESG and...
Deepfake video meeting with fake CFO costs company $25.6 mn
The company employees in the call looked and sounded like real people the targeted employee recognised.They followed instructions given during the meeting and made 15 transfers totalling HK$200 million $25.6 million) to five Hong Kong bank accounts. Hong Kong: A...
Investors dig into India’s stock market as China flounders, discount risks
Global investors' desire to own a piece of the brightest market in the emerging world has been the catalyst, says Remi Olu-Pitan, head of multi-asset growth and income at asset manager Schroders, but that has meant an under-appreciation of the vulnerability and risks...
Marriage dissolution does not efface status of child’ s parents HC
The high court said when the man was alive, there was no justification for his ex-wife to remove the father's name in the school admission form of their son and replace it with the name of her second husband New Delhi: Dissolution of a marriage does not efface the...
At Rs15 crore, GIC Re tops India Inc’s per employee profitability chart during FY 2022-23
A dividend cheque of Rs.1083.60 crore for FY 2022-23 was handed over to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman by N. Ramaswamy, CMD, GIC Re with M P Tangirala, additional secretary, Dept of Financial Services (extreme left), and, Hitesh Joshi, general manager, GIC Re...
Availability of containers not affected due to Red Sea crisis: Patel
Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Anupriya Patel said that Indian Navy has substantially enhanced maritime surveillance efforts in central/north Arabian Sea and augmented force levels. For effective surveillance of EEZ (exclusive economic zone), Indian Navy...
6.22 crores hospital admission worth Rs 79,174 crore authorised under the Ayushman Bharat
Approximately 3.37 crore hospital admissions worth Rs 52,207 crore have been authorised in private hospitals, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya informed the house New Delhi: Around 6.22 crores hospital admission worth Rs 79,174 crore were authorised under the...