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Here is a masonry blog layout with no sidebarMeghalaya extends 100% subsidy in premium for crop insurance to state’s farmers
The estimated amount of premium support by the Government of Meghalaya of Rs. 4.4 crores is based on the enrolment target of 27,000 number of farmers for Kharif season 2023 and 10,000 number of farmers for the Rabi season 2023-24.With over 80% of the population of the...
RBI holds rates but signals tight monetary policy ahead
Shaktikanta Das, Governor, RBI The RBI maintained its policy stance of "withdrawal of accommodation" to ensure inflation progressively aligns with the committee's target while remaining supportive of growth, Governor Shaktikanta Das said while announcing the MPC's...
AI outperforms standard risk model for predicting breast cancer: Study
''Recent advances in AI deep learning provide us with the ability to extract hundreds to thousands of additional mammographic features,'' A. Arasu, from Kaiser Permanente Northern California, US said in a statement Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms outperformed...
Raising awareness about brain tumour symptoms imperative for better treatment, say docs
Dr Manish Vaish, senior director of neurosurgery at Max Super Speciality Hospital in Vaishali said brain tumours constitute approximately two per cent of all malignancies globally and present a formidable health challenge. ''In India alone, an estimated 40,000 new...
EU Commission allocates $1.3 bln to tackle mental health ‘silent epidemic’
The Commission said mental health problems already impacted around 84 million people before the COVID-19 pandemic with an economic cost of about 600 billion euro a year, or 4% of the bloc's GDP Brussles: The European Commission said on Wednesday it would allocate 1.23...
Andhra Pradesh Cabinet approves Guaranteed Pension Scheme, regularisation of 10,000 contract staff
Under the GPS scheme, eligible employees will receive 50 per cent of their last drawn salary as pension, including receiving dearness relief (DR) on the lines of the Central Government declaring dearness allowance and DR twice a year Amaravati: Approving Guaranteed...
RBI expands scope of TReDS, includes insurers as participants
''Apart from MSME sellers, buyers and financiers, insurance companies are permitted to participate as ''fourth participant'' in TReDS,'' it said in a circular Financiers place their bids on the TReDS platforms keeping in view the credit rating of buyers. They are...
TPG backed Insurtech PolicyBoss closes Series B funding
InsurTech PolicyBoss, announced that it has closed its series B round of investment with a consortium of investors’ including India SME Investments and Madhav Mirani, (Ex-Co-founder–Ugam Solutions) and prominent Angel Investor – Jitendra Gupta, amidst continued...
New York tops the world’s 20 most expensive cities for expats in 2023
Soaring inflation and rising accommodation costs were cited as reasons for New York topping ECA International’s Cost of Living Rankings for 2023, while Geneva and London remained in third and fourth places New York has leapfrogged Hong Kong as the world’s most...
FSIB chooses 2 new MDs for LIC
The government's head hunting agency for PSU banks and insurers had interviewed seven candidates to select two managing directors of the corporation New Delhi: The Financial Services Institutions Bureau (FSIB) has chosen Sat Pal Bhanoo and R. Doraiswamy as new...
FSIB selects Ramaswamy for GIC Re top post, Rajeswari Singh as NIC CMD
N Ramaswamy, general manger, GIC Re Four senior officials who had appeared for the virtual interview are- N Ramaswamy, general manager, GIC Re, Hitesh Joshi, general manger, GIC Re, M Rajeswari Singh, general manger & director, United India Insurance, BS Rahul,...
Make customers’ rights charter enforceable, says RBI panel
It has also recommended setting up of a regulated entities(REs) - agnostic common portal for lodging complaints, so that the customers of any RE can lodge complaints on a single platform. Mumbai: A panel set up by the RBI to examine and review the state of customer...
RBI Governor launches financial inclusion dashboard Antardrishti
Shaktikanta Das, Governor, Reserve Bank of India The FI-Index has been conceptualised as a comprehensive index incorporating details of banking, investments, insurance, postal as well as the pension sector in consultation with the government and respective sectoral...
FSIB to select CMDs for GIC Re and National Insurance today
Some of the officials who are appearing for a virtual interview are- N Ramaswamy, general manager, GIC Re, Hitesh Joshi, general manger, GIC Re, M Rajeswari Singh, general manger & director, United India Insurance, BS Rahul, general manger, Agriculture Insurance...
Geneva Association celebrates its 50th anniversary
Christian Mumenthaler, Chairman of The Geneva Association and Group CEO of Swiss Re, said: “What stands out, above all, is how insurers and reinsurers have dutifully confronted the world’s biggest challenges in the name of building resilience. In the uncertain times...