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Currently, the top four things which employers surveyed are doing are offering the same salary to male and female employees for the same job role, offering the same incentives to male and female employees, zero tolerance for sexual harassment and gender discrimination...
MFI portfolio jumps 26 pc in December quarter: Report
The micro credit portfolio for all the lenders combined together stood at Rs 2.56 lakh crore in the year-ago period, and Rs 3.04 lakh crore at the end of the preceding September quarter, according to data collected by Sa-Dhan, an association of impact finance...
India needs regulatory data protection to attract drug research: Novartis CEO
, Vasant Narasimhan,Chief Executive Officer,Novartis ''I think the next step is when you think about how we generate data and how protected that is in regulatory filings. India does not have regulatory data protection,'' he said replying to a query. Hyderabad: India...
China asks state-owned firms to phase out use of Big four auditing firms over data security
China is seeking to rein in the influence of the US-linked global audit firms and ensure the nation’s data security, as well as to bolster the local accounting industry, the people said. . Chinese authorities have urged state-owned firms to phase out using the four...
Shipping industry steps up calls to free seafarers still trapped by Russia’s war
In the weeks after the war began, some 2,000 crew members were caught in the crossfire on ships in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. Safe corridors helped reduce that number in the months that followed. But the total remaining stands at an estimated 331 seafarers on...
New Zealand needs to rebuild for weather resilience, PM says
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins said there had been a nine-fold increase in government spending in the 2021-22 fiscal year on helping farmers cope with floods, storms and drought. The number of weather events that require emergency road work more than doubled from an...
Chile readies major earthquake insurance with World Bank
“The insurance would allow Chile to receive pre-established compensation payments, in the event of certain high intensity parameterized seismic events that cause material damage to the country and public finances,” the ministry said in a statement Chile is finalizing...
Investors’ wealth plunges Rs 8.30 lakh crore in 6 trading sessions
Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) offloaded shares worth Rs 1,417.24 crore on Thursday, according to exchange data "The domestic market is broadly demonstrating a lack of confidence, registering its sixth consecutive day of losses despite global markets turning...
2 more minor earthquakes hit Gujarat’s Amreli, third in two days
An earthquake of magnitude 3.1, the latest of the three, was recorded at Mitiyala village in Savarkundla taluka at 11.40 am on Friday. It was 43 km south-south east of Amreli city, said the ISR official. Amreli: Two minor tremors of 3.4 and 3.1 magnitudes were...
Salaries in India likely to increase by 10.3% in 2023: Survey
In 2022, salaries in India witnessed an actual increase of 10.6 per cent in 2022. As per Aon plc's 28th Annual Salary Increase Survey in India, double-digit salary growth will continue in India despite economic volatility, largely as a response to high attrition...
Nearly 30% of 2.2 billion people living with blindness globally are in the WHO South-East Asia Region
Trachoma is a disease of the eye caused by infection with the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis. It is a public health problem in 42 countries, and is responsible for blindness or visual impairment of about 1.9 million people. Blindness from trachoma is irreversible...
South Korea’s world lowest fertility rate drops again
As of 2020, South Korea was the only country among the OECD members to have a rate below 1, giving it a shrinking population. Being married is seen as a prerequisite to having children in South Korea, but marriages are also plunging in the country amid sky-high costs...
A 19-year-old is the youngest person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease – the cause is a mystery
A brain biopsy would be too risky, so understanding the biological mechanisms of his dementia is difficult – and this case remains a medical mystery at this point Cases of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease are on the rise in younger patients Sheffield: A19-year-old man...
No cause of concern for wheat crop if temp prevails below 35-degree C in mid-March: IARI
Wheat, a major rabi (winter) crop, would be ready for harvest next month. As the Met office has forecast rising temperatures in parts of the country, farmers are worried about a repeat of last year when the heatwave hit the crop yields. New Delhi: Amid concerns over...
Scan, share service for faster OPD registrations gaining success: NHA
The Scan and Share service is currently live in 125 districts across 25 states and UTs in the country. Karnataka (2.5 lakh tokens), Uttar Pradesh (1.1 lakh users) and Delhi (72,000 users) are the leading states in the adoption of this service for better patient...
Sebi proposes to allow pension funds to participate as anchor investors in public issues
In its consultation paper, the regulator has proposed that rules should be amended to allow pension funds of entities which are associates of the lead managers, to participate as an anchor investor in a public issue Mumbai: Sebi on Wednesday proposed to allow pension...
Turkey Earthquakes: Total insured losses likely to exceed $5 billion,Moody’s RMS
Economic losses from the moment magnitude (Mw) Mw7.8 and Mw7.5 earthquakes that struck southern Turkey on February 6 are likely to exceed US$25 billion Observations from early damage reports issued by the Turkish Ministry of Environment, Urbanization, and Climate...
Munich Re beats 2022 profit target with 74% fourth-quarter leap
"Munich Re absorbed the crises of 2022 well," Chief Executive Joachim Wenning said It reduced the share of proportional business and, owing to the attractive price level, grew in the area of non-proportional natural catastrophe covers in particular. Despite increasing...