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The danger of war damage, as well as longer-term political and economic instability, have seen the costs of insuring investments in Ukraine shoot up, often pricing out both investors and private insurers. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has called on allies to...
California insurers’ inability to price risk is causing headaches
State regulations ask wildfire insurers to set rates for annual catastrophic coverage as a fraction of damages accrued over 20 years — without mention of models that can capture the accelerated rate of land use change and development, weather and wind trends or the...
Many newborns dying due to loss of efficacy of antibiotics against sepsis: Study
Sepsis is a life-threatening bloodstream infection which affects up to 3 million babies a year globally. Every year, 214,000 newborn babies, mostly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), die of sepsis that has become resistant to antibiotics Newborn babies are...
Adding genomic info to blood biomarkers yields cost-effective results for chronic disease prevention: Study
"We found that in all the diseases, both genetics and biomarkers could provide useful information about disease risk, even ten years into the future. And the blood biomarkers provided better prediction in nearly all cases - for example, the 10 per cent of individuals...
India puts coastal states on alert amid warning of strengthening cyclonic storm
The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), which categorised Biparjoy as a "very severe storm", said at 08:30 a.m. IST (0300 GMT) on Saturday the weather system was centered about 620 kilometres (385.25 miles) west-southwest off the financial capital Mumbai New...
Going Digital: Customising Premiums for Policyholders
Anuj Parekh, Co-founder and CEO,Healthysure How Technology advancements makes it easier to customize plans to an individual’s unique needs and bring down the premiums In a world where digital advancements are constantly reshaping our lives, the Indian insurance...
NASA mission to avert ‘internet apocalypse’ that could pause online access for months
Scientists have warned about the potential impact of an upcoming solar storm, commonly referred to as an "internet apocalypse", which could strike within the next decade NASA has launched a spacecraft as part of a mission in an effort to avert a potential "internet...
LIC raises stake in SAIL by 2%
Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) has raised its stake in state-owned steel production firm SAIL by about 2 per cent to to 8.68 per through an open market acquisition. LIC bought 8.26 crore shares or 2.001 per cent of equity capital at an average price of Rs...
Max Life launches Smart Wealth Advantage Growth Par Plan
Max Life Insurance Company Ltd. has launched Smart Wealth Advantage Growth Par Plan - a non-linked participating Individual Life Insurance Savings Plan. The plan combines the power of ‘Protection, Liquidity, and Flexibility’ into a simple solution and offers...
Brain tumour cases rising ‘steadily’ in India, 20% are children: Doctors
"India is witnessing an increasing trend of central nervous system tumours. The prevalence ranges from 5 to 10 per 1,00,000 population. Very few people know that out of these, only two per cent of tumours turn cancerous," said Ravindra Srivastava, Director...
Buckling up to save lives: UN celebrates five decades of seat belt laws
“The compulsory wearing of safety belts, as well as helmets for two-wheelers, and increased political commitment to road safety, played a decisive role in the reduction of road deaths throughout Europe from the 1970s onwards,” said Jean Todt, UN Special Envoy for Road...
‘India’s aircraft fleet doubled in past nine years, pvt investment to be over Rs 70k cr’
Domestic air travel in India has soared by an astonishing 130 per cent, with an estimated annual count of 145 million passengers exploring the country's skies "Additionally, international passenger movement has experienced a noteworthy upswing, registering a 50 per...
Govt will regulate AI, other tech from perspective of harm it can inflict on users: MoS IT
''Our approach towards AI or any regulation is that we will regulate it through the prism of user harm. This is a new philosophy, which has started since 2014 that we will protect digital nagriks. We will not allow platforms harming digital nagriks. If they operate...
Extreme weather events claimed 233 lives in India between January and April: Report
Between January and April 2022, extreme weather events claimed 86 lives and damaged 0.03 million hectare of cropland, according to the report. Lightning and storms occurred on 58 days this time as compared to 35 days during the corresponding period in 2022. Most of...