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Three new fatalities due to Covid-- one each from Kerala, Karnataka and Bihar -- have been reported in a span of 24 hours, according to the ministry's data updated at 8 am New Delhi: India has logged 841 new cases of Covid-19, the highest in 227 days, while the number...
2024: Equity market set for eventful journey on LS polls, interest rate trajectory
In 2023, the 30-share BSE Sensex jumped 11,399.52 points or 18.73 per cent, and the NSE Nifty climbed 3,626.1 points or 20 per cent Mumbai: With tailwinds of a remarkable year and handsome investor returns, Indian equities are set for an eventful journey in 2024, with...
IPO ahoy! 54 of 59 issues return 45% in 2023; just 4 trading below issue price
Analysts say strong macroeconomic fundamentals, political stability, optimistic corporate earnings outlook, signals from the US Federal Reserve about three prospective rate cuts next year and heavy retail investors participation played a major role in fuelling the...
Once synonymous with poverty, Odisha eyes high-income status by 2036
The latest Multidimensional Poverty Index report released by NITI Aayog reveals that Odisha along with Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan has recorded the steepest decline in poverty in terms of health, education and standard of living conditions...
Researchers discover wide range of risk factors for young-onset dementia
Dr Leah Mursaleen, Head of Clinical Research at Alzheimer's Research UK, which co-funded the study, said: "We're witnessing a transformation in understanding of dementia risk and, potentially, how to reduce it on both an individual and societal level. In recent years,...
Consulting firm McKinsey agrees to USD 78 million settlement with insurers over opioids
The insurers argued that McKinsey worked with Purdue Pharma – the maker of OxyContin – to create and employ aggressive marketing and sales tactics to overcome doctors' reservations about the highly addictive drugs. Insurers said that forced them to pay for...
Eurostar cancels trains due to flooding, stranding hundreds of travelers in Paris and London
The U.K. has been battered by strong, gusty winds and heavy rain brought by Storm Gerrit throughout the holiday period. More stormy weather and travel disruption is expected during the last weekend of the year The holiday travel plans of hundreds of people were...
Will JN.1 drive a severe Covid wave in India?
As per the policy on COVID-19 testing, directed by the management, testing will be done for patients with SARI (severe acute respiratory infection) like symptoms that include according to the WHO, acute respiratory infection, persistent fever or fever of >= 38 C° with...
China revises company law to tighten capital contribution rules
PricewaterhouseCoopers said on its social media account last month that the change appears to be aimed at better protecting creditors, although it’s also likely to “lower investors’ enthusiasm to start new businesses.” Chinese lawmakers changed the country’s Company...
Google settles $5 billion consumer privacy lawsuit
The plaintiffs alleged that Google’s analytics, cookies and apps let the Alphabet unit track their activity even when they set Google’s Chrome browser to “Incognito” mode and other browsers to “private” browsing mode Alphabet’s Google has agreed to settle a lawsuit...
Jan 1 renewals: Orderly reinsurance market with increasing capital, says Guy Carpenter
Global property catastrophe reinsurance risk-adjusted rate changes averaged from near-flat to single-digits up for non-loss impacted and 10%-30% up for loss-impacted programs, with a wide range of outcomes around these averages Guy Carpenter and AM Best’s 2023...
Risk Report: Building Risk Culture for India Inc
Sanjeev Mantri, MD & CEO, ICICI General Insurance Profound urgency of Climate Change continues to be undervalued among India Inc. Only Energy and Utilities, Hospitality, Infrastructure and Real Estate and FMCG sectors identified Climate Change and Natural...
World population to top 8 billion by January 1,adds 75 million this year
The worldwide growth rate in the past year was just under 1 per cent. At the start of 2024, 4.3 births and two deaths are expected worldwide every second, according to the Census Bureau figures Washington: The world population grew by 75 million people over the past...
All in a year: Equity market investors turn richer by Rs 80.62 lakh crore in 2023
Experts said India's strong macroeconomic fundamentals, political stability owing to the BJP's success in recent elections in three significant states, optimistic corporate earnings outlook, signals from the US Federal Reserve about three prospective rate cuts next...
JN.1 variant dominates US with 50% of Covid cases: CDC
"JN.1 continues to cause an increasing share of infections and is now the most widely circulating variant in the United States. For the two weeks ending on December 23, 2023, JN.1 is expected to account for 39-50 per cent of all SARS-CoV-2 variants," the CDC said in...
Wealth Management: Record year for India’s $585 billion Mutual Fund industry
As the unforeseen gift of a pandemic-led boom in retail investing keeps on giving, and India’s $4.1 trillion equity market continues to grow — benchmark indexes are poised to cap a record eighth year of gains — industry veterans see mutual funds attracting a bigger...
Self-driving cars could be on UK roads by 2026:Minister
Critics of the technology, which has been trialed in the United States, say that the vehicles can cause crashes, and in California, regulators ordered General Motors’ driverless car unit Cruise to remove its vehicles from state roads after an accident in October...
Tokyo court only holds utility responsible to compensate Fukushima evacuees and reduces damages
The decision is among the four rulings that apparently came in line with the June 2022 Supreme Court decision that said the government wasn't liable for the disaster and that the disaster from a tsunami that high wasn't foreseeable or preventable A Tokyo court has...