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The study, titled "Balancing Growth and Public Health Safety: Criticality of PVC QCO in India," was released at IIT Delhi on Wednesday. It highlights that PVC, which forms nearly 30 per cent of India's economy, is used in critical areas such as water supply,...
Banks at crossroads as AI costs rise and risks escalate: S&P Report
In terms of risk management practices, the report pointed out that deploying AI technologies introduces new technical risks and increases reliance on third-party vendors. At the same time, AI can help banks improve risk identification, monitoring, and pricing. New...
Ministry of civil aviation clarified pilot not being blamed for AI plane crash: Centre to SC
Justice Joymalya Bagchi said, “The AAIB inquiry is not for apportion blame on anyone. It is only to clarify the cause so that the same does not happen again.” New Delhi: The Air India pilot has not been blamed in the AAIB’s preliminary report into the June 12 plane...
Mahindra & Mahindra and Canadian Manulife form 50:50 life insurance JV, To invest Rs 3,600 crore
“We can plan getting into non-life business if composite license is allowed by the government afterwards.Mahindra brand strength, deep distribution capabilities in rural and semi-urban India and execution excellence make life insurance a logical extension towards our...
Willis and Rare partners to launch innovative insurance solution for fishers in the Philippines
Christopher Au, Head of APAC Climate Risk Centre, at Willis, said: “With over 1.9 million registered small-scale fishers relying on the nearshore for their livelihoods, the impacts of climate change, such as high winds, rough seas and heavy rainfall, pose increasing...
GIC Re net profit surges 55% to Rs 2,867 cr in Q2FY26, global premium rises 15% to Rs 9,600 cr
`GIC Re’s broad objective is to maintain its dominance in the domestic market while strategically enhancing its global footprint for diversification and spread. Our decisions will be guided by exposure management, price adequacy and portfolio balance on an ongoing...
Managing Customers: Banks and insurers deploy AI agents to fight fraud and process applications
-Three in five banks and insurers cite customer onboarding among top reasons for AI agent adoption,-33% of firms are actively developing proprietary AI agents in-house, though only 10% have deployed at scale,-Nearly half of banks and insurers are creating new jobs to...
Google sued for secretly amassing user data via Gemini AI
In the past, users of Gmail, Chat and Meet were given the option to turn on Google’s artificial intelligence program. But in October, the Alphabet Inc. unit “secretly” turned on Gemini for all those applications, enabling it to collect private data “without the users’...
IRDAI closely monitoring health insurance claims gaps, says Chairman Seth
Ajay Seth, chairman,IRDAI `While the number of health insurance claims settled is high, the amount settled especially in full is sometimes lower than expected.This is an area we are monitoring closely. Our expectation from the insurers is clear. Prompt, fair and...
Hexaware launchs advanced insurance solutions,deepens Google Cloud partnership
The offerings strengthen Hexaware's collaboration with Google and reflect a shared focus on accelerating digital transformation through automation, AI, and scalable cloud-native architectures for the insurance industry.Hexaware's parametric claims solution automates...
Max Financial Services Q2 profit plummets to Rs 6cr
Axis Max Life reported New Business Margins of 23.3 per cent in H1 FY’26 up from 21.2 per cent during the same period last year. The Value of New Business (VNB), a measure of profitability experienced a YoY growth of 27 per cent outperforming the peers, aided by...
Ageas Federal Life strikes distribution partnership with Muthoot Microfin
Ageas Federal Life Insurance has announced a strategic distribution partnership with Muthoot Microfin Ltd., aimed at reaching underserved customer segments, including individual entrepreneurs and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), thereby strengthening financial...
Bajaj General Insurance net profit rises 5% to Rs 517 crore in Q2FY26
The company's combined ratio was at 102.3 per cent in Q2FY 26 as against 101.4 in the corresponding quarter of FY 25.The underwriting losses of the BAGIC has deteriorated to Rs92 crore in the reporting quarter as against Rs 48 crore in Q2FY25 impacted by higher...
“Huge spike in number of chest cases”: Doctors warn of health issues due to air pollution in Delhi-NCR
"There are patients all around. Everywhere, children are being brought to hospitals coughing, sneezing, having a runny nose, breathing fast, and having a fever. We have patients who are coming back with a cough or pneumonia. There is a huge spike in the number of...
One in two people tested in India show high blood sugar levels: Report
Gaurav Verma, Head of B2C, PharmEasy (API Holdings) noted "This report is more than data; it is a call for action. One in two people tested show high blood sugar levels, and there are millions unaware they are at risk. Awareness, timely diagnosis, and prevention must...
Asia’s wealthy families unprepared for successive planning as their fortunes near $99 trillion
Chaotic handovers have the potential to freeze assets in legal disputes, fragment family empires, and destabilize companies that have grown rapidly but lack the governance structures that many Western dynasties built over generations Asian private wealth is projected...
Can consider visa on arrival for medical treatment: Goyal
"The idea about visa on arrival is a good idea. We will pursue that…For many countries, we allow visa on arrival, we allow e-visas…both these can be considered let's say for the United States, most of the European countries… not all by the way …for most of the...
Kolkata: India's life insurance sector continued its double digit growth for the second month in a row, with new business premium up by 12.1 per cent year-on-year touching Rs 34007 crore in October, 2025, CareEdge Ratings said on Tuesday, quoting data provided by Life...