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Passengers should be advised to wear masks in high-risk settings such as long-haul flights, said the WHO's senior emergency officer for Europe, Catherine Smallwood, adding: "this should be a recommendation issued to passengers arriving from anywhere where there is...
Axis Bank revises pact with Max Fin, to buy more 7% stake in Max life
The revision, the stock exchange filing said, has been done consequent to the guidance received by Max Life from insurance regulator IRDAI.Discounted cash flow refers to the estimated value of an investment based on future cash flows Mumbai: Axis Bank on Tuesday said...
Beazley launches industry’s first Cyber Catastrophe Bond
This is the first time that a liquid Insurance-Linked Securities (ILS) instrument has been created for cyber catastrophe risks, said Beazley The $45 million bond gives Beazley indemnity against all perils in excess of a $300 million catastrophe event, with the...
Shortage of healthcare workers globally may rise to 10 mn by decade-end: WEF study
Launched in the run-up to the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting 2023 in the Swiss ski resort town of Davos, the report said the rise in healthcare spending has fast-tracked progress in telehealth, vaccines and precision medicine, but businesses and...
National Health Authority introduces new system to measure performance of hospitals under Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY
RS Sharma, CEO, National Health Authority The statement said that under value-based care, the performance of AB PM-JAY empanelled hospitals will be measured based on five performance indicators such as Beneficiary Satisfaction; Hospital Readmission Rate; the extent of...
Sinking Joshimath: Admin sounds alert, asks residents to move to relief centres
Taking stock of the prevailing situation in the popular pilgrimage site, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has given instructions for monitoring all ongoing development works in the area while ensuring immediate relief and rescue of residents affected by...
Covid infection reshapes immune status depending on gender: Study
The team led by John Tsang, an immunobiologist from Yale University, US, found that immune systems of men who had recovered from mild cases of COVID-19 responded more robustly to flu vaccines than women who had had mild cases or men and women who had never been...
China not to include Pfizer Inc’s Covid drug in its insurance scheme
Boxes of Paxlovid are changing hands for as much as 50,000 yuan ($7,313.15), more than 20 times the original price of 2,300 yuan, according to local media reports and social media posts. Beijing has been largely resistant to Western vaccines, but has greenlighted...
General insurers’ premium grows by 14.44% to Rs 20,687 crore in Dec , PSU gen insurers market share falls over 2% to 33.16%
The private sector general insurers have mobilised a total premium of Rs 96,246 crore, up 22 per cent in Apr-Dec period while PSU general insurers have gathered a total premium of Rs 62,092 crore,up 8.64 per cent, during the same period. Mumbai:The total premium of...
Nurturing Talents: Compensation for Indian Workforce
Though western countries are embracing and adopting the concept of Total Rewards for retaining employees, a more nuanced approach is warranted when designing a compensation structure for the Indian workforce Shwetha Ram While the COVID-19 pandemic upended the...
Airlines in India to add 100 aircraft per year to fly 412 mn passengers
Civil Aviation Ministry officials said that there were about 400 aircraft in 2013 and in 2021-22, the number increased to 700. Airlines in India are going to add 15 per cent capacity or 100 to 110 aircraft per year and the aviation sector is looking at close to 1,200...
Lack of Covid preventive measures in China may lead a 2020-like situation: Report
The ongoing Covid wave in China has seen Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Chongqing, and other urban areas struggling to contain the outbreak, with hospitals overwelmed and mortuaries full China is no longer adopting preventive measures to stop the country's Covid...
Health minister Mandaviya urges Odisha govt to implement Ayushman Bharat insurance scheme in state
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya The minister said "50 crore families have been given health security under the Ayushman Bharat - PMJAY scheme while affordable and quality medicines are being provided by more than 9,000 Jan Aushadhi Kendras across the country"...
Hackers use AI tool to write malicious code
"Cybercriminals are finding ChatGPT attractive. In recent weeks, we're seeing evidence of hackers starting to use it to write malicious code. ChatGPT has the potential to speed up the process for hackers by giving them a good starting point," said Sergey Shykevich,...
PMO to hold high-level meeting on Joshimath crisis
The Uttarakhand government has requested the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), Hyderabad and the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Dehradun to conduct a study of Joshimath area through satellite images and submit a detailed report with photographs New...
InsuranceDekho receives Rs 300 crore of funding from Goldman Sachs Grp, valued at Rs 1100 crore
The sole source of income for Insurance Dekho is insurance brokerage and commission, which increased by 61% to Rs 47.91 crore in FY22 from Rs 29.71 crore in FY22. In the most recent fiscal year, the company’s losses increased by 55.6% to Rs 72.29 crore. At the group...
Financial inclusion appears to be positively correlated with per capita income growth: IMF
IMF said, "For example, the launch of the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana programme in India in 2014, one of the world's largest financial inclusion initiatives to date, is one prominent example of India's national-level commitment to advancing financial inclusion."...
Researchers reveal couples who work from home do not have same experience
Organizations and managers should give their male employees more flexibility when possible so they and their families can better adapt to crises like the COVID-19 pandemic," Jasmine Hu, lead author of the study and professor of management at The Ohio State...