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In India, employers see risk and insurance benefits (51 per cent), health benefits (51 per cent) and career, training and development (43 per cent) as the most important benefits in their portfolios ''Economic factors, a tough labour market and tight budgets are...
Liberty General Insurance appoints Parag Ved as CEO Designate
Ved was the second official from Tata AIG General to become a CEO of another domestic general insurer after Amit Ganokar,also from Tata AIG General, had joined Chennai based Royal Sundram General Insurance as its MD & CEO a few months back MUMBAI: Liberty General...
Bitcoin logs over 700K transactions in single day after almost 2 years: Data
According to the data from Bitinforcharts, the number of daily active addresses reached a multi-month high on September 15, rising from 754,000 two years ago to a whopping 1.08 million San Francisco: Bitcoin has witnessed an extraordinary surge in transaction volume...
Household net financial savings at 47-year low in FY23
According to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), household net financial savings (HHNFS) collapsed to just 5.1 per cent of GDP in FY23, marking the lowest level in 47 years since FY77, the report said New Delhi: Household financial borrowings in FY23 surged to 5.8 per...
Equity investors lose Rs 2.89 lakh crore in two days of market fall
''The domestic markets remained under pressure due to rising US bond yields and a stronger greenback. Concerns reigned over upcoming Fed policy, interest rate trajectory and rising oil prices. Bank Nifty underperformed today due to rising cost of funds and reduction...
UK watchdog sets three-month deadline to improve car insurance
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said on Wednesday it had asked insurers to check if their products offer value for money, a requirement reinforced by the watchdog's tougher general "consumer duty" rule that came into force in July London: Britain's financial...
Kerala to conduct surveillance study on Nipah virus: CM Pinarayi Vijayan
"It cannot be said that the Nipah threat has gone away. It is a relief that the disease has not spread to more people. The government is going ahead with effective measures to prevent the spread and ensure better treatment for those infected. The entire health system...
Miller expands reinsurance offering with establishment of new APAC treaty team
Ron Whyte, Head of Miller Asia, said: “APAC is a central pillar of Miller’s international growth strategy and a market in which we see clear long-term opportunities. We want to establish meaningful and value-add reinsurance capabilities in the region and establishing...
India can avert 4.6 mn deaths by 2040 with better hypertension control: WHO
Uncontrolled hypertension is known to cause heart attack, stroke and premature death. In fact, the report showed that 52 per cent deaths in the country due to cardiovascular diseases such as heart attack can be attributed to elevated blood pressure New Delhi: Better...
New India to integrate with ONDC soon, targets digital footprint increase by 10 to 15% annually: Kapur
Neerja Kapur, CMD, New India Assurance ``The insurer is taking lot of digital initiatives and is deploying artificial intelligence for doing motor Own Damage( OD) claim surveys up to Rs. 50,000. This is currently in the pilot phase. It will be rolled out to all its...
Annual cost for reaching the SDGs? More than $5 trillion
When expanded to cover all developing economies, using the median per-capita cost for the 48 in the study, total annual needs ris to between $6.9 trillion and $7.6 trillion The analysis focuses on six paths for transformation through sustainable development: social...
4 out of every 5 people with hypertension are not adequately treated: WHO
The number of people living with hypertension (blood pressure of 140/90 mmHg or higher or taking medication for hypertension) doubled between 1990 and 2019, from 650 million to 1.3 billion. Nearly half of people with hypertension globally are currently unaware of...
Panda urges key stakeholders to collaborate to tap massive Indian Surety Bonds market
``India is expected to spend around Rs 100 trillion on infrastructure through the National Infrastructure Pipeline in the next five years. This requires bank guarantees of around Rs 90 lakh crore in the next five years which banks currently do not have capacity for....
Nipah situation is totally under control in Kerala: Minister Veena George
''We are on constant alert, constant vigil, that will continue, and integration of some departments, like we have developed a ''one health programme'' in Kerala based on our experiences on Nipah. Because this is an era of zoonotic diseases, we cannot stay away from...
Govt should consider bringing in age limit for use of social media: HC
MeiTY had under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act between February 2, 2021 and February 28, 2022 issued 10 Government Orders directing it to block 1,474 accounts, 175 Tweets, 256 URLs and one hashtag. Twitter challenged the orders related to 39 of these...
TMK hire underlines life sciences ambition
Burke’s appointment follows several recent significant hires and promotions at TMK including Benjamin Goldsmith as a political violence underwriter, Sam Bye as cyber underwriter, Asia Pacific, Aoife Woulfe, head of delegated cyber, Paul Gooch, divisional head of large...
Bengal transport dept to frame guidelines for use of two-wheelers for commercial purposes
In the meeting held recently, it was decided that all stakeholder aggregators, corporate houses, and agencies using non-transport two-wheelers unauthorisedly for commercial purposes must be brought under an oversight mechanism in accordance with relevant Motor Vehicle...
Six of nine planetary boundaries now exceeded: Study
"Crossing six boundaries in itself does not necessarily imply a disaster will ensue but it is a clear warning signal. We can regard it as we do our own blood pressure," Katherine Richardson, professor at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark said. Human activities...