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Reliance General Insurance Company (RGICL), launched first of its kind premium health insurance product – Reliance Health Infinity Policy. The product comes loaded with high sum insured up to Rs5 crores, superior features like MoreGlobal Cover, Maternity Cover, OPD...
Climate Chnage: When water displaces natives from “sinking island” of Kerala
Kerala Finance Minister K N Balagopal, who made several interventions in the past to support the suffering islanders, said it was difficult to find solutions for the issues of Munroe Thuruth alone as it was part of the world-wide phenomenon of global warming and...
Over 1,500 private hospitals empanelled under Ayushman Bharat in last one year: Mandaviya
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya Today, 4.5 crore needy people have been empanelled under the scheme, the minister said He said seven-eight lakh beneficiary cards are printed daily and the ministry was working to ensure that 50 crore cards are made available in...
Budget-2023-24: Tax incentive to promote Home Insurance
Rakesh Jain, CEO, Reliance General Insurance In spite of pandemic, the health insurance penetration in our country is very low. Due to such a low coverage, the cost of insurance becomes high. In order to bring down its cost, GST rate should be reduced to 5% from 18%....
Budget-2023-24:Zero-rated GST for protection products
Vighnesh Shahane, MD & CEO, Ageas Federal Life Insurance The insurance industry wish-list for the annual Budget has been largely the same for the last four-five years with the aim of driving insurance penetration in the country. A few of our recommendations...
Tata AIA Life Insurance expands new fund Offering Suite
Tata AIA Life Insurance (Tata AIA) has announced range of new funds including Emerging Opportunity Fund, that will invest in mid-cap companies and emerging market leaders with the potential to generate significant future growth. The applications for ULIP plans with...
Vaccine against cervical cancer to be included in national immunisation programme by mid-2023: NTAGI chief
India is home to about 16 per cent of the world's women and accounts for about a quarter of all cervical cancer incidences and nearly a third of global cervical cancer deaths. Indian women face a 1.6 per cent lifetime cumulative risk of developing cervical cancer and...
Govt notifies IRDA’s new regulations on `Registration of Indian Insurance companies” facilitating larger PE investment
-Investment through Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) has been made optional for Private Equity (PE) Funds enabling them to directly invest in insurance companies, providing more flexibility, Now, subsidiary companies are also allowed to be promotors of insurance...
China’s factories to the world brace for Tsunami of Covid cases
The resulting eruption in infections is set to be a key test for a vast network of factories that account for almost one-third of the world’s manufacturing output. Those plants are now taking extraordinary steps to ward off infections From locking in workers to...
Financialisation of savings to jump to 74pc of GDP by FY27: Crisil Report
Directed efforts at financial inclusion, digitalisation, a longer-term trend of rising middle-class disposable incomes, and government incentives on these instruments have better channelled these savings to the industry have also helped, the report said....
PSU insurers see shrinking workforce as pvt sector ramps up hirings
In 2021-22, the PSU general insurers have reduced their number of employees to 42,500 from 49,149 in 2020-21 while the private sector general insurers including five stand alone health insurers have grown their workforce aggressively to 1,09,000 in 2021-22 from 92,966...
Ambulance Facility at Toll Plazas
Over 900 Ambulances have been deployed by National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) at a gap of 50km or at toll plazas on the National Highways (NH) to ensure medical treatment to accident victims.NHAI has issued instructions to spread awareness about the 1033...
Green bonds likely to be issued in Jan-March quarter, government tells Parliament
Green Bonds will help the government in tapping the requisite finance from potential investors for deployment in public sector projects aimed at reducing the carbon intensity of the economy New Delhi:The sovereign green bonds are likely to be issued during...
AP Cabinet raises the social pension to Rs 2,750 per month
The Andhra Pradesh Cabinet on Tuesday gave its green signal to increase the social pension to Rs 2,750 per month from the existing Rs 2,500. The increased pension will be distributed from January 1, 2023. According to an official release, an additional expenditure of...
Climate change could cost pension funds billions, EU watchdog says
Only 14% of pension schemes said they were already using environmental stress-testing in their own risk management, a subgroup that performed better than their peers in the test, EIOPA said. Pension funds across the European Union would lose billions of euros from...
Fed lifts rates by half percentage point, sees economy nearing stall speed
The U.S. central bank's projection of the target federal funds rate rising to 5.1% in 2023 is slightly higher than investors expected heading into this week's two-day policy meeting and appeared biased if anything to move higher WASHINGTON: The Federal Reserve raised...
Karnataka govt simultaneously launches 114 ‘Namma Clinics’ across State
Each Namma Clinic is expected to cater to a population of 10,000 to 20,000. The 12 kinds of services include pregnancy, postnatal, neonatal care, childhood and adolescent care, universal immunisation services, family welfare, contraceptive, infectious disease...
India’s COVID-19 tally not rising due to hybrid immunity -Top Health Expert
New Delhi: COVID-19 Working Group NTAGI Chairman N K Arora on Wednesday said that despite South Asian countries reporting an increase in COVID-19 cases, India is not getting affected because of hybrid immunization. However, Dr. Arora warned that India still needs to...