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Regulators worry increasingly about how a meltdown in cryptoassets – markets which are highly volatile and still opaque – would feed through into the wider financial sector London: Risks from the $2.6 trillion crypto market could grow quickly and regulators need...
Over 14.34 lakh companies active at end of Jan: MCA
New Delhi: More than 14.34 lakh companies were active in the country at the end of January and as many as 12,182 companies were registered last month, according to official data. As on January 31, the number of registered companies stood at 22,88,681 and out of them,...
Safety harness use, crash helmets mandatory for children below age of four on motorcycles: Ministry
''This has been notified under Section 129 of the Motor Vehicles Act, which mandates that the central government may, by rules, provide for measures for the safety of children below four years of age, riding or being carried on a motor cycle. Further, it specifies use...
Tatas to bring in new fleet for Air India: Chairman
On fleet modernisation, Tata Sons Chairman N Chandrasekaran said, "We will upgrade our fleet. We will bring modernity to our fleet. We will bring a new fleet, we will expand our outreach. Mumbai: Tata group will make Air India financially fit, upgrade aircraft, bring...
India economy to grow at fastest pace among large nations: Finmin report
"The current year may as well end with an economic reset manifest of a post-COVID-19 world…Manufacturing and Construction will be the 'growth drivers', triggered by the PLI schemes and public capex in infrastructure," the review report said. The Indian economy is...
First woman reported cured of HIV after stem cell transplant
The case of a middle-aged woman of mixed race, presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunisitic Infections in Denver, is also the first involving umbilical cord blood, a newer approach that may make the treatment available to more people CHICAGO: A U.S....
Insurtech: HealthySure raises $1.2 mn in Pre-Series A led by Inflection Point Ventures
The round also saw participation from We Founder Circle, Dexter Angels, Campus Fund, HEM Angels and other private investors, according to a release by HealthySure Mumbai: Insurtech HealthySure has raised $1.2 million (Rs 9crore approx.) in a Pre-Series A round led by...
Global insurance market sees higher M&A deals in 2021 despite pandemic: Clyde & Co report
The pandemic has accelerated innovation in the industry with re/insurers prepared to buy, fund or partner with the technology companies that can help provide product innovation and greater agility to deliver a competitive advantage, said the Clyde & Co. report,...
Climate migration fuels conflicts in Bay of Bengal region
Disastrous floods, deadly heatwaves and devastating cyclones are taking a heavy toll in the Bay of Bengal region, which covers more than 2 million sq km (772,204 sq miles) - impacting Bangladesh and parts of Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Myanmar and India Military and civil...
Global EV sales up 109% in 2021, Tesla leads with 14% share
The total global car market grew just 4 per cent in 2021 as it continued to struggle with Covid-19 restrictions and chip shortages, while EV sales represented 9 per cent of all passenger car sales last year, according to market research firm Canalys Nearly 85 per cent...
LIC policyholders need to update PAN details by Feb 28 to participate in IPO
The initial public offering (IPO) of over 31.6 crore shares or 5 per cent government stake is likely to hit the market in March and employees and policyholders of the insurance behemoth would get a discount over the floor price Mumbai: Life Insurance Corporation of...
BIS chief says new policies needed to enhance resilience of private firms
"I think that now we need to move more into more focused and targeted type of policies that can enhance the resiliency of firms -- not of all of them because we know that they have been sectoral shifts, shifts in demand and so on and some firms regretfully will not be...
Separation of chairperson, MD positions voluntary: Industry welcomes Sebi’s decision
Capital markets regulator Sebi on Tuesday said the requirement to split Chairperson and Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer positions at listed companies will not be mandatory and will be implemented on a voluntary basis Mumbai: Industry bodies on Tuesday...
Covid can be said to have become endemic only after 4 weeks of consistently low cases: Virologist
He also said the endemic phase of COVID-19 is expected to last many months and it is '' most unlikely'' that another variant with higher transmissibility than Omicron and greater virulence than Delta will emerge The third wave of COVID-19 in India has been plateauing....
Cryptocurrencies threaten financial sovereignty, need to be banned: RBI Dy Guv
''We have also seen that cryptocurrencies are not amenable to definition as a currency, asset or commodity; they have no underlying cash flows, they have no intrinsic value; that they are akin to Ponzi schemes, and may even be worse. These should be reason enough to...
US Judge blocks Biden administration order on climate risks
The “social cost of greenhouse gases” estimate is used in rule-making and permitting processes to estimate economic damages associated with a rise in greenhouse gas emissions. Those could include things like impacts to agricultural productivity or property damage from...
Airlines likely to avoid Ukraine’s airspace amid insurance issues
News agency Interfax Ukraine said Ukrainian insurance companies had received a notification from reinsurers that airlines were not covered for war risks More airlines are likely to avoid Ukraine’s airspace amid insurance issues and a decision by leading European...
Europe’s banks fund oil and gas expansion despite IEA warning -report
An IEA report in May said there should be no investment in new oil and gas fields in order to have a 50% chance of capping global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average. The financing comes despite 24 of the banks themselves pledging to...