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Indian automakers which posted encouraging sales data for the month of February 2022 riding on a demand surge, are cautiously optimistic that as they enter into the new fiscal, the semi-conductor availability will improve and they will be able to cater to the customer...
Tata cancelled USD 3 billion deal in Bangladesh over bribery issue
Dhaka: Indian conglomerate Tata in 2005 cancelled USD 3 billion deal after Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader Tarique Rahman placed a bribery deal to the Indian company. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's ICT Advisor Sajeeb Wazed Joy in a post from his verified...
Govt may review timing of LIC IPO after Ukraine invasion: FM Sitharaman
“Ideally, I’d like to go ahead with it because we’d planned it for some time based purely on Indian considerations,” Sitharaman said “But if global considerations warrant that I need to look at it, I wouldn’t mind looking at it again,” she said New Delhi India may...
Number of ultra HNIs in India up 11% in 2021 at 13,637: Report
"In India, the number of UHNWIs (net assets with USD 30 million or more) has grown by 11 per cent YoY (year-on-year) in 2021, the highest percentage growth in APAC," Knight Frank said in a statement. The number of UHNWIs in India grew to 13,637 in 2021 from 12,287 in...
Deaths linked to PM2.5 pollution in India increased by 2.5 times in 2 decades: Report
The report released by Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav on Tuesday said India accounted for one out of every four deaths due to air pollution in 2019 The report said 4,76,000 infants died globally in their first month of life from health effects associated...
UN climate report urges world to adapt now, or suffer later
While governments need to drastically curb their emissions to prevent runaway global warming, they can also work to limit suffering by adapting to the conditions of a warmer world, the report says. That will take a lot of money - to finance new technologies and...
Ukraine Invasion: Russia’s ultra-rich count cost of $83 bn wealth wipeout
Russia’s $1.5 trillion economy is already reeling from sanctions that targeted key banks and may prevent Putin from accessing the bulk of more than $640 billion in central bank reserves. Those restrictions have roiled the nation’s markets and are having a knock-on...
Sydney told to brace for heavy rains, floods in ‘one-in-a-one thousand’ year event
Brisbane, Australia's third largest city, received around 80% of its annual rainfall over the last three days, Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said on Tuesday. New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet described the wild weather as a "one-in-a-one thousand...
SBI stops handling trade with sanctioned Russian entities -sources
"No transactions involving entities, banks, ports or vessels appearing" on a U.S., European Union or United Nations sanctions list shall be processed irrespective of the currency of the transaction, said a letter sent by State Bank of India (SBI) to certain clients...
‘Delay means death’ – UN climate report urges immediate, drastic action
On nearly all counts, the report makes clear that climate change is impacting the world far faster than scientists had anticipated. Noting that nearly half the world's population was already vulnerable to increasingly dangerous climate impacts, the report calls for...
Toyota suspends domestic factory operations after suspected cyber attack
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said his government would investigate the incident and whether Russia was involved "It is difficult to say whether this has anything to do with Russia before making thorough checks," he told reporters TOKYO: Toyota Motor Corp said...
Kenyan farmers test insurance to ward off climate-driven hunger
On Monday, a key science report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned of growing pressure on food production and people's ability to get enough to eat on a hotter planet, which it said would fuel malnutrition, especially in vulnerable regions like...
India court blocks Future Enterprises from selling stake in Generali JV
Future Enterprises said in January that it had decided to sell its 25% stake in Future Generali India Insurance Company to Generali Mumbai: A Mumbai city civil court has blocked Future Enterprises from selling its stake in its general insurance joint venture business...
People flee to rooftops as ‘weather bomb’ submerges Australian towns
Several regions have seen rainfall records for February broken because of the relentless downpour, with some places getting more than a month's or more than a year's rains in one day Insurer Suncorp on Monday said it had received more than 5,000 claims related to the...
International flights to remain suspended till further orders:DGCA
The ban on scheduled international passenger flights in India was in effect till February 28 this year New Delhi: Scheduled international commercial passenger services to and from India will remain suspended till further orders, the Director-General of Civil Aviation...
MoF may ask a GIC Re official to hold charge of NIA CMD
According to sources in the industry, some of the general managers of GIC Re, who are being considered to hold charge at NIA are Madhulika Bhaskar and Jayshree Ranade New Delhi: The Ministry of Finance may ask a senior official of GIC Re to head New India...
Extended prescription for chronic diseases helped India cope better during Covid, say health experts
''While all non communicable diseases require a continuum of care and treatment, it is critically important to focus on hypertension and diabetes, also called the silent epidemics of India. For the 22 crore hypertension patients, over 8 crore diabetics and other NCD...
WhatsApp group admins not liable for objectionable posts by members: HC
"Thus, Creator or Administrator of a WhatsApp group, merely acting in that capacity, cannot be vicariously held liable for any objectionable content posted by a member of the group.He does not have physical or any control otherwise over what a member of a group is...