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Bajaj Allianz General Insurance on Friday launched a new product in its health insurance vertical offering cashless facilities in four key areas -- tele-consultation, doctor consultation, investigations, and annual preventive health check-up covers. Called 'health...
CDC advisory prefers Pfizer , Moderna Covid vaccines over J&J shot
The CDC's advisers said Thursday that it was time to recognize a lot has changed since vaccines began rolling out a year ago. More than 200 million Americans are considered fully vaccinated, including about 16 million who got the J&J shot Most Americans should be...
Typhoon Rai weakens after pummelling central Philippines
Rai, which at one point intensified into a category 5 storm, the highest classification, toppled power and communication lines, complicating disaster response and efforts to collect information from typhoon-hit areas "It is not expected to cause massive damage...
Three dead, 10 injured in fire at India’s Gujarat Fluorochemicals plant
The company did not give additional details about the fire, but according to local media reports there was an explosion at the site at around 10:00 a.m. local time that could be heard several kilometers away Shares of the company tumbled 8.4% earlier in the day on the...
LIC to take legal action against misuse of Its logo on social media platforms
"It has also come to our notice that certain unscrupulous service providers and agents have created websites and Apps whereby they are attempting to provide various services such as 'Insurance and Insurance Advisory Services' to customers using our trademarks/service...
Bank strike delays clearance of 38 lakh cheques worth Rs 37,000 crore
About one lakh bank branches remain closed and some others headed by senior officials were kept open as they did not participate in the strike Venkatachalam said the strike is against the Centre's move to privatise public sector banks (PSB) and to introduce the...
Expansion of scope of data protection bill needs careful analysis, deeper debate: Nasscom
The Joint Committee on Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019, headed by BJP MP PP Chaudhary, tabled its report in Parliament on Thursday. The committee has recommended widening the scope of the proposed data protection legislation to include both personal and...
Some EU insurers relied on relief measures during stress test, says watchdog
Industry body Insurance Europe said the results confirm the sector's ability to meet promises to customers under extreme 1 in 1,000 year events The next test for insurers, which could include climate-related elements, won't be until 2023 The test covered 44 insurers...
France says facial recognition company Clearview breached privacy law
The CNIL stressed that Clearview's collection of publicly-available facial images on social media and the Internet had no legal basis and breached European Union rules on data privacy. France's data privacy watchdog CNIL has ordered Clearview AI, a facial...
Ban drug ads to promote health
In the US alone, USD 20 billion was spent in 2016 to convince doctors to prescribe brand-name drugs. The problem needs tackling at two ends: better regulation of promotion and making doctors less susceptible to it. Turning over-regulation to the drug companies, as is...
Refugees lack COVID shots because drugmakers fear lawsuits
So far there is scant information on COVID vaccine litigation, but claims made to out-of-court compensation programmes are one measure of the risk. A programme in the United States has so far not paid out anything, public data show; neither has one set up by the WHO...
Global community steps up with $93 billion support package to boost resilient recovery in World’s poorest countries
The funds will be delivered to the world’s 74 poorest countries under the 20th replenishment (IDA20) program, which focuses on helping countries recover from the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis. In these countries, the ongoing pandemic is worsening poverty, undermining...
US health tab hit $4T as gov’t opened spigot to fight COVID
The $4.1 trillion tab for 2020 represents an increase of about $365 billion from national health spending in 2019. It works out to $12,530 per person Washington:U.S. health care spending rocketed to $4.1 trillion last year as Congress opened the spigot of federal...
Cryptocurrencies a challenge for emerging markets, regulation needed: IMF chief economist
Gita Gopinath,Chief Economist,International Monetary Fund ''I think cryptocurrencies are a particular challenge for emerging markets. It seems to be more attractive to adopt cryptocurrencies and assets in emerging economies than in advanced economies,'' she said while...
Aon appoints Angela James from Willis as Chief Broking officer, UK
Aon plc today announced that it has appointed Angela James as Chief Broking Officer for Commercial Risk in the UK. James will join the business in June 2022 and report to James Baum, Head of Commercial Risk, UK. In the newly created role, which will cover Commercial...
TN Helicopter Crash:ICICI Lombard settles Rs 1 crore PA claim of Lt Colonel Singh
ICICI Lombard General Insurance has settled the personal accident claim of Lt. Colonel Harjinder Singh who died in Mi-17 V5 helicopter crash in Tamil Nadu’s Coonoor. He had a salary account with ICICI bank which has a tie up with ICICI Lombard General Insurance for...
Electric vehicle mkt to see investment of Rs 94,000 cr in next 5 years: Report
Currently, 15 Indian states have either approved or notified EV policies, with six more states in the draft stage. States like Delhi, Gujarat, Maharashtra, and Meghalaya are focusing on demand incentives, whereas southern states and Uttar Pradesh are focusing on...
UIDAI plans to provide Aadhaar enrolment to newborn babies in hospitals soon
"99.7 per cent adult population has been enrolled in Aadhaar. We have enrolled a 131 crore population and now our effort is to enrol newborn babies," Garg said. "Every year 2-2.5 crore babies take birth. We are in the process of enrolling them in Aadhaar," he added....