Welcome to My Blog
Here is a masonry blog layout with no sidebarPSU 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...
Govt extends bid submission deadline till Jan 7 for IDBI Bank sale
The government and the Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) hold 94.71 per cent of IDBI Bank and are looking to offload 60.72 per cent in the state-owned bank. The successful bidder will have to make an open offer of acquisition of 5.28 per cent of the public...
Shift work affects risk of Covid-19, severity of infection, shows research
"However, they did not have a higher risk of getting a more severe outcome of the infection, compared to those not working face-to-face with others," said Bjorn Bjorvatn, Professor at the University of Bergen Shift work and working face-to-face with others affect the...
Combination of factors behind LIC share price going up: Experts
The LIC scrip on Wednesday opened at Rs 723 and during the intra-day trade it touched a high of Rs 732 and a low of Rs 719.95. A change in the accounting policy resulted in LIC's profit shooting up by Rs 14,271.80 crore to Rs 15,952.29 crore for the Q2FY23. Mumbai: A...
AIIMS Delhi server attack originated from China, say government sources; data from 5 servers safely retrieved
"AIIMS Delhi server attack was by the Chinese, FIR details that the attack had originated from China. Of 100 servers (40 physical and 60 virtual), five physical servers were successfully infiltrated by the hackers. The damage would have been far worse but is now...
GST Council likely to decide on decriminalisation of GST offences, setting up appellate tribunals on Saturday
The committee has also suggested that the fee for compounding offences be reduced to 25 per cent of the tax amount, from 50-150 per cent currently Currently as per the GST Act, the amount payable for compounding of offences is 50 per cent of the tax amount involved...
New Zealand passes minimum age law aiming to ban smoking for next generation
The law states that tobacco can't ever be sold to anybody born on or after January 1, 2009 - and from now on, the minimum age for buying cigarettes will keep going up and up New Zealand is not the only nation pushing to ban smoking for the next generations. In June, a...
ADB trims economic growth forecast for developing Asia, equity investors remain bullish
Monetary policy tightening by central banks globally and in the region, the protracted Russian invasion of Ukraine, and recurring lockdowns in the People's Republic of China (PRC) are slowing down developing Asia's recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, ADB said....
Russian insurer Ingosstrakh says no plans to cover new sanctioned clients
“We are not willing and will not provide short-term P&I (Protection and Indemnity) coverage for vessels caught up by the new Turkish regulations at the mouth of the Bosphorus,” Ingosstrakh said Russian insurer Ingosstrakh said on Monday it has no plans to offer...
Auction base price hiked by Rs 1.5K cr to Rs 6.5K cr for Reliance Cap bidders
According to the new rules, the bidders, in the first and second round, will have to increase the bid value by minimum Rs 1,000 crore each. This means the first bid has to be minimum Rs 7,500 crore and the second Rs 8,500 crore. The auction will now take place on...
India is largest ‘connected’ nation with 800 million broadband users: Chandrasekhar
``5G and the largest rural broadband connectivity network project at BharatNet will have 1.2 billion Indian users constituting the single largest presence of the global internet. He further said that we also expect further technological innovations as well as updated...