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“As confidence in new opportunities grows, it is evident that the Great Reshuffle in India is clearly being led by job seekers, and talent is in the driver’s seat right now – with flexibility as their no. 1 priority today,” mentioned Ankit Vengurlekar, India Managing...
SEBI examines alternate dispute resolution mechanism for investors, regulated entities
SEBI in November 2021 published the 'Investor Charter' for securities markets to further augment its efforts to protect investors’ interests, promote transparency in markets and enhance awareness, trust and confidence among investors. Since then, various steps have...
Agriculture: Gradual shift towards the implementation of green practices
Weeds, diseases, and pests cost Rs 45,000 crore every year, causing roughly 20% of crop output to be lost. India will need to increase agricultural production and productivity to ensure food and nutrition security as its population grows. The Indian agrochemical...
India reports over 2.8 lakh new COVID-19 cases, daily positivity rate at 15.13 pc
As per the health ministry, there is an increase of 0.79 per cent in Omicron cases since yesterday. The daily positivity rate is at 15.13 per cent while the weekly positivity rate is 15.53 per cent. Meanwhile, the country's recovery rate stands at 93.88 per cent India...
Covid-19 health emergency could be over this year, says WHO
Dr. Michael Ryan said “we may never end the virus” because such pandemic viruses “end up becoming part of the ecosystem.” But “we have a chance to end the public health emergency this year if we do the things that we’ve been talking about,” he said. The worst of the...
After supply, logistics emerges as biggest threat to global vaccination programs
Developed countries are getting to the point where they are choosing to live with Covid and treat it as endemic, their hospital systems insulated by higher vaccination rates. But logistical issues continue to bedevil the rollouts of poorer countries, becoming one of...
Airlines scramble to rejig schedules amid US 5G rollout concerns
The world's largest operator of the Boeing 777, Dubai's Emirates, said it would suspend flights to nine U.S. destinations from Jan. 19, the planned date for the deployment of 5G wireless services. Major international airlines rushed on Tuesday to rejig or cancel...
Deploying new 5G service will cause “catastrophic” aviation crisis :Major US airlines
The airlines warned the new C-Band 5G service set to begin on Wednesday could render a significant number of widebody aircraft unusable, “could potentially strand tens of thousands of Americans overseas” and cause “chaos” for U.S. flights The chief executives of major...
71 pc of employees rethinking their careers: Report
According to the data, Covid-19 has brought a paradigm shift in the priorities of the employees. For 68 per cent of surveyed employees, job satisfaction was solely ranked as 'very' or 'most' important aspect followed by salary and job satisfaction for 62 per cent, the...
ICICI Pru Life posts Rs 311 cr net income for Dec quarter; policy sales jump 20 pc
''We have maintained positive momentum in business and profitability, and have registered a strong year-on-year growth of 20 per cent in the value of new business (VNB). Almost half of our new business premium has been contributed by the protection and annuity...
Over 19.22 lakh new vehicles registered in Maha in 2021; registrations up by 8.26 pc
As per the transport department data, of the total 19,22,418 newly registered vehicles, 13,16,216 were motorcycles, 3,46,197 private cars and 1,26,551 transport category vehicles, which need permits to operate, such as buses, trucks and taxis Mumbai: Over 19.22 lakh...
Cyber perils outrank Covid-19 and broken supply chains as top business risk globally and in Asia Pacific: Allianz Risk Barometer 2022
Cyber incidents tops the Allianz Risk Barometer for only the second time in the survey’s history (44% of responses), Business interruption drops to a close second (42%) and Natural catastrophes ranks third (25%), up from sixth in 2021 London/Munich/New...
LIC listing: Inside the all-out campaign to prepare India’s biggest IPO
A knock-out listing could see LIC raise as much as $10 billion from the IPO with a minimum dilution of 5%. That would make it the third biggest globally involving an insurer Mumbai:In Mumbai’s sleek skyscrapers, harried bankers race the clock to appraise a company...
Decision on COVID vaccination for children between 12-14 yrs yet to be taken by Health Ministry
Dr NK Arora, Chairman of COVID-19 working group of NTAGI, said that looking at the current pace of the vaccination, India may begin inoculating children in the age group of 12-14 years in March. About 46 percent of adolescents aged 15-18 years have received their...
India should adopt risk-based approach not blanket bans to contain Covid: WHO India head
''WHO does not recommend a blanket travel ban, nor complete restriction of people's movement. In many ways, such blanket approaches can be counterproductive. India with its diversity in population distribution and geographic spread, the risk-based approach remains the...
Sanctioned Rs 50,000 compensation to each of 68,370 claims for COVID-19 deaths: Guj govt tells SC
The state government had said that it received 89,633 claim forms (applications) seeking compensation for COVID-19 deaths, out of which 58,840 claims have been settled and the amount has been disbursed to applicants New Delhi: The Gujarat government has told the...
IRDAI reduces general insurers’ obligatory cession for GIC Re to 4 % from 5 % in FY 2023
The approximate size of the Indian reinsurnace market is around Rs 55,000 cror in FY.2020-21. To begin with, obligatory cession for GIC Re was 10 per cent which was reduced to five per cent afterwards and the foreign reinsurers which are having braches in India are...
Govt seeks applications for a new IRDAI member(Non-Life)
TL Alamelu, member(Non-Life), IRDAI will be retiring on May 6,2022 after completing her three-year tenure New Delhi: The government on Monday has asked for applications to appoint a new member (Non-life), in Hyderabad based IRDAI. The current member(Non-Life),TL...