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AIBOC General Secretary Soumya Dutta said about 7 lakh bank staffers across the country are participating in the two-day strike. It is unfortunate that operations of over 1 lakh branches of banks and regional rural banks have been impacted due to the strike because of...
AIIB to fund $150 million for making Chennai’s urban services green and resilient
Chennai faces tremendous infrastructure deficits and low service quality in core urban sectors such as water resource management, water supply and sanitation, urban mobility, solid waste management and public health Beijing: AIIB has approved the USD150-million...
Cabinet clears proposal to increase legal age of women to 21: Report
After the Union cabinet's approval, the government will amend the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, Special Marriage Act, and the Hindu Marriage Act to implement the new decision to increase the legal age of marriage of women," sources said. New Delhi:The Union...
Swiss Re appoints Pravina Ladva as Group Chief Digital & Technology Officer and reorganises Group Operations
Pravina Ladva, Group Chief Digital & Technology Officer, Swiss Re All technology-related responsibilities of Swiss Re will be bundled under the leadership of Pravina Ladva Zurich: Swiss Re announced today the appointment of Pravina Ladva as Group Chief Digital...
KKR to buy 10% stake in Shriram General Insurance ahead of IPO
The Chennai-based Shriram Group is selling the stake in Shriram General Insurance Co. ahead of a potential initial public offering that could take place as soon as 2022.The deal may be announced as early as next week, sources said Mumbai: KKR & Co. is nearing a...
ICICI Pru Life Insurance signs the UN Principles of Responsible Investing
Manish Kumar, Chief Investment Officer, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance said, “As part of our commitment towards promoting sustainable investing we recently launched the ‘Sustainable Equity Fund’, an ESG-focused fund, and in the process became the first life insurance...
San Francisco to require sick leave for nannies, gardeners
An employer would pay one hour of wages into the sick leave fund for every 30 hours of service from a domestic worker The measure would affect 10,000 people in the city who work in private homes cleaning, cooking, tending children, garden or providing non-medical care...
Insurance industry joins initiative for decarbonising global shipping
"The disclosure framework provided by the Poseidon Principles will enable us to credibly report our progress towards net-zero insurance using granular marine data," Patrizia Kern, marine head at Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, said in a statement Other insurers and...
Omicron thrives in airways, not lungs; new data on asymptomatic cases
"By infecting many more people, a very infectious virus may cause more severe disease and death even though the virus itself may be less pathogenic. Therefore, taken together with our recent studies showing that the Omicron variant can partially escape immunity from...
Ayush Ministry’s recommendation on ‘holistic health’ for Covid, long Covid
"COVID-19 is an evolving disease, characterised by the development of sequelae to the primary disease known as post-Covid syndrome and long COVID-19. It has been observed that patients recovering from SARS-CoV-2 suffer from persistent and often, debilitating symptoms...
India’s Population Puzzle
While India will be a young country for decades yet, it is aging faster than expected.The latest round of India’s massive National Family Health Survey underscores the point. Mihir Sharma By the middle of this century, India will have 1.6 billion people. That’s when...
IMF warns of interest rate risks as global debt hits $226 trillion
Government borrowing accounted for slightly over half of the $28 trillion increase, but private debt among non-financial corporations and households also hit new highs. Global debt surged to $226 trillion last year, its biggest one-year jump since World War Two, and...
Future of Digital Payments in India
According to RBI, 'while the guidelines will be technology and platform agnostic, it will create an enhanced and enabling environment for customers to use digital payment products in a more safe and secure manner.' The digital payments growth in India has positioned...
Health facility registry & health account will together create interoperable system: NHA CEO
R S Sharma,CEO ,National Health Authority 'Similarly, we are going to have the health professionals registry, which means the registry of the doctors and all the health workers of various categories. So that will help people in locating the nearest doctor. Similarly,...
EPFO invested Rs 2,500 cr in Reliance Capital’s bonds: FinMin
Reliance Capital had defaulted on payment of principal and interest obligations on bonds held by EPFO.The total interest default on the non-convertible debentures (NCDs) (secured) is Rs 534.64 crore as of November 30, 2021 Reliance Capital owes its creditors over Rs...
Paytm launches Paytm Wealth Academy, a tech-powered educational platform for traders and investors
The Paytm Wealth Academy is a first-of-its-kind initiative to allow users to learn trading and financial concepts at their own pace at their level of comfort. The platform offers a wide catalog of courses and webinars along with personalized recommendations for users,...
IndiGo flight to Tirupati diverted to Bengaluru after technical snag
Actor-turned-politician and YSRCP MLA Roja Selvamani said that she will file a defamation suit against IndiGo and its management for demanding excess money, changing the destination, and delay in travel A Rajahmundry-bound IndiGo flight for Tirupati was diverted to...
Tesla hit by string of US sex harassment lawsuits
"Tesla's factory floor more resembles a crude, archaic construction site or frat house than a cutting-edge company in the heart of the progressive San Francisco Bay area," several of the suits claim The lawsuits -- filed within a month of two others -- add to the...