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Law firm Stewarts, which represented the owners of the ExCel Centre, said the ruling “could potentially affect hundreds of thousands of policyholders.” “Policyholders whose BI losses remain uncompensated should now revisit their policy documents to consider whether...
WHO says toxic syrup risk ‘ongoing’, more countries hit
Rutendo Kuwana, the WHO team lead for incidents with substandard and falsified medicines, declined to name the six new countries the agency is working with, while investigations are still underway Unscrupulous actors sometimes substitute propylene glycol with toxic...
IMA calls for protection of health workers
"This is the need of the hour. How can a doctor treat a critical patient under stress and under threat? The nation is not realising how serious this issue is. After this, no good doctor will agree to treat a serious patient because they will feel threatened," said Dr...
Max Life Insurance buys 2.99 pc in Capital Small Finance Bank
Max Life Insurance has bought shares in Capital Small Finance Bank for Rs 49.50 crore, taking its stake in the bank to 2.99 per cent. Max Life Insurance Company has been allotted a total of 10.57 lakh equity shares. Each equity share has a face value of Rs 10....
PNB MetLife declares highest-ever bonus of Rs 768.6 crore in FY22-23
PNB MetLife has announced the highest-ever bonus of Rs 768.6 crore for eligible policyholders in FY 2022-23. This bonus amount is 29 per cent higher than Fy 2021-22, benefitting almost 5.52 lakh policyholders of the company.
SC to hear IRDA’s appeal against SAT order `staying transfer of Sahra Life’s biz to SBI Life’ on July 3
Though, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the IRDA had sought urgent hearing of the matter, SC’s vacation bench presided by Justice Surya Kant said there was no urgency and directed the matter to be heard on July 3 Earlier, in a big relief to Sahara India...
Behind aviation recovery, suppliers struggle to keep up
But there is an emerging consensus that the industry’s sprawling supply chain – strained by rising costs, parts shortages and a scarcity of skilled labor in the wake of the pandemic – will have to be remade before it can recover fully, a process that will take years...
Microsoft says early June disruptions to Outlook, Cloud Platform were cyberattacks
A spokeswoman confirmed that the group that calls itself Anonymous Sudan was behind the attacks. It claimed responsibility on its Telegram social media channel at the time. Some security researchers believe the group to be Russian In early June, sporadic but serious...
SIP closures rise 7.4 pc month-on-month in May
Investors continued to park their money in mutual funds, with contributions in SIPs reaching a new high of Rs 14,749 crore last month, after a brief dip to Rs 13,728 crore in April. It was Rs 14,276 crore in March Mumbai: The number of systematic investment plan (SIP)...
Tata AIA Life’s net profit zooms six fold to Rs 506 crore in FY23
The company's total premium income for the fiscal grew by 42 per cent to Rs 20,503 crore compared to Rs 14,445 crore in the previous year Mumbai: Tata AIA Life Insurance (Tata AIA) reported a 615 per cent jump in its net profit to Rs 506 crore in FY 2022-23 from Rs 71...
Reliance Industries resumes vessel operations at Sikka port in Gujarat
Several ports in Gujarat had suspended cargo operations last week due to unsafe weather conditions at sea New Delhi: India's Reliance Industries, operator of world's biggest refining complex, has resumed vessel operations at the port of Sikka in Jamnagar, Gujarat,...
Scores die in northern India as heat wave scorches region
While the heat wave was expected to continue in some regions on Monday, parts of India's northeastern Assam state reeled under floods triggered by heavy rains New Delhi: The government said it was investigating the cause of the deaths that occurred over three days...
Bajaj Allianz Life opens office in Dubai
Aiming to improve customer services to its non-resident Indian (NRI) population in the Middle East, Bajaj Allianz Life is opening its first representative office in Dubai, ."GCC’s sizeable NRI community is of pivotal importance to us," said Tarun Chugh, MD and CEO of...
Castrol, Mahindra Insurance Brokers announce strategic alliance for Castrol Auto Service Workshops
Castrol India Limited, India’s leading lubricant player, has signed an MoU with Mahindra Insurance Brokers Limited (MIBL), to enable Castrol Auto Service (CAS) workshops to sell vehicle insurance policies by top insurance companies, further enhancing their customer...
Lighting gas stoves found to raise indoor benzene above that in secondhand smoke
“Benzene forms in flames and other high-temperature environments, such as the flares found in oil fields and refineries. We now know that benzene also forms in the flames of gas stoves in our homes,” said study senior author Rob Jackson, professor of Earth system...
Cyclone Biparjoy: Flood-like situation in 3 Rajasthan districts, 59 people rescued
Police said four people, including a woman, were killed in two separate rain-related incidents in Barmer and Rajsamand districts. Jaipur: Fifty-nine people were rescued on Sunday from Rajasthan’s Jalore, Sirohi and Barmer districts which are facing a flood-like...
Read the tea leaves: Climate change taking toll on Darjeeling tea gardens and workers
The changing weather patterns have made it increasingly challenging to harvest even two kilograms per day of high-quality tea leaves, a fraction of the six-seven kilograms per day till 2015 The implications of climate change ripple through every aspect of their lives....