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Pfizer, which also makes one of the mostly widely used COVID-19 vaccines, has said the pill cut the chance of hospitalisation or death for adults at risk of severe disease by 89% in its clinical trial. read more The drug will be used in combination with ritonavir, an...
Dubai eases visa rules, UAE makes labour laws more competitive
The Gulf state has recently launched a raft of economic reforms and legal reforms, including longer-term residency visas, to attract investment and foreigners to help the economy recover from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic In the latest move to boost the United...
Ninety-Five Percent of Global Insurers Believe Climate Risk is Investment Risk:Blackrock study
BlackRock study shows insurers representing US$27trn in assets are prioritising sustainable investing, diversification to higher-yielding assets and technological transformation, as concerns about climate change intensify LONDON: Insurers are increasingly concerned...
Jhunjhunwala’s Akasa Air orders 72 Boeing 737 MAX jets
The order by billionaire investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala-backed airline comes months after India's air safety regulator allowed the country's airlines to fly the MAX jet, ending its nearly two and a half years of regulatory grounding after two fatal crashes in five...
Global wealth surges as China overtakes US as world’s richest nation
As computed by McKinsey, 68% of global net worth is stored in real estate. The balance is held in such things as infrastructure, machinery and equipment and, to a much lesser extent, so-called intangibles like intellectual property and patents.Financial assets are not...
Willis Towers Watson appoints Aon’s Hugo Wegbrans as Global Head of Broking and Broking Strategy
Hugo joins WTW from Aon, where he has most recently been Leader, Global Strategies, for its Commercial Risk Solutions business. Prior to that, he served as Global Chief Broking Officer. He has spent the majority of his 35-year career with Aon. LONDON: Willis Towers...
Anchor investor talks for mega LIC IPO to start next week: Report
Banks plan to file the draft IPO prospectus with the markets regulator by the first week of December, once the embedded value of the firm is finalised, the people said. The government may also allow foreign direct investment in LIC to ensure a diversified and strong...
Tobacco use continues to fall, but still ‘long way to go’.
The number of tobacco users continues to decrease globally, going from 1.32 billion in 2015 to 1.30 billion last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. Approximately 38 million children between the ages of 13 and 15 currently use tobacco, 13...
Health Minister suggests stickers be given to notify fully vaccinated status of families
The cumulative COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the country have crossed 113 crores. The minister noted their contribution in ensuring that 80 percent of the population and 40 percent of the population received their first and second dose of the vaccine...
New Research on Looming Threat of Global Insurance Raises Alarms
The study was conducted in partnership with IBM and Luxoft. "We've seen organized scammers exploit the telehealth system; intercept personal information through phishing scams and other data harvesting schemes; carry out ransomware attacks; and run a number of...
Big four global reinsurers improve earnings despite high nat cat losses:Fitch
Sharply lower non-life claims related to the coronavirus pandemic more than offset high, and above-budget, natural catastrophe losses, Fitch Ratings says. The pandemic had a strong impact on the life and health reinsurance activities of the major reinsurers, which had...
Israel’s Redefine Meat serves up plant-based whole cuts of beef
The company, which until now worked with about 150 restaurants in Israel, said the whole cuts will broaden the appeal of alternative meat products that have mostly been limited to ground-beef dishes, including hamburgers and sausages. "This is the money-maker. This is...
Combustion of coal has led to increase in premature mortality rate in India: Lancent Report
Data from the 2021 global Lancet Countdown report shows that there has been a nine-per cent increase in the number of deaths related to coal-derived PM2.5 in India in 2019 compared to 2015. New Delhi:The combustion of coal, mainly in power plants followed by...
US health agency eases Covid-19 travel advisory for India, Pakistan
In its advisory for India, the State Department urged US citizens not to travel to Jammu and Kashmir due to terrorism and civil unrest, and also within 10 kilometres of the India-Pakistan border due to the potential for armed conflict. "Indian authorities report rape...
If a citizen loses his job due to vaccination, is the state not obliged to redress it? Kerala High Court’s proposal to the Center
Justice PV Kunhikrishnan on Tuesday said the court is not blaming the Center but when a citizen stands to lose his employment or his movement is restricted because of the vaccine given to him by the state, “is it the duty of the government to Isn’t that redressal of...
Global Covid-19 Caseload Tops 253.8 Million, Deaths Over 5.10 Million
The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 47,221,549 and 764,363, according to the CSSE.The second worst hit country in terms of cases is India (34,447,536 infections and 463,655 deaths), followed by Brazil...
Russian test blamed for space junk threatening space station
A Russian weapons test created more than 1,500 pieces of space junk that is now threatening the seven astronauts aboard the International Space Station, U.S. officials said Monday. The State Department confirmed that the debris was from an old Russian satellite...
General insurance industry in China to reach US$313 billion in 2025, forecasts GlobalData
Deblina Mitra, Senior Insurance Analyst at GlobalData, comments: “Despite being the second-largest general insurance industry globally, China’s general insurance penetration at 1.3% is way below the developed markets’ average of 4%. This is mainly because the general...