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By 2025, the country aims to take the comprehensive strength of its blockchain industry to the most advanced level in the world, said a document jointly released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Office of the Central Cyberspace Affairs...
Wellx.ai partners with INSTANDA to launch digital health covers for UAE
Vaibhav Kashyap, CoFounder & CEO of Wellx.ai: “The mandatory nature of medical insurance in the UAE and state of overall health of citizens and residents called for a new type of insurance. Wellx.ai exists to enable insurers to embrace their responsibility as a...
Global executives lack confidence on their own organisations’ approach to Reputational and ESG ‘risk readiness”:WTW Survey
Simon Weaver, Head of Corporate Risk & Broking, Asia and Australasia, and Head of Australasia, Willis Tower Watson said, “In an increasingly digital, service-oriented economy, reputational risk is firmly on the corporate agenda. However, our findings also suggest...
LIC:Govt eyes to offload 5% stake sale via mega IPO
With 5 per cent, market experts peg the size of the IPO to be at around Rs 40,000 crore.The embedded value of the company is estimated to be about Rs 5.4 trillion ($72 billion), . New Delhi: India is considering selling about 5 per cent of the shares it holds in a...
Cryptos a threat to financial stability; value not even a tulip: RBI Guv
Private cryptocurrencies or whatever name you call it are a threat to our macroeconomic stability and financial stability. They will undermine the RBI's ability to deal with issues of financial stability and macroeconomic stability, Das said Mumbai: Governor...
Most patients had heart or kidney ailments: Report on Covid deaths in Delhi
Among those who died after contracting coronavirus infection, and were found suffering from co-morbid conditions, patients with heart ailments accounted for 20 per cent of the cases, and those with kidney diseases 19 per cent, as per the report New Delhi: Out of the...
Israel unveils $1.3 bln plan to reduce cost of living
In a televised address alongside Bennett, Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman said the new plan, worth 4.4 billion shekels ($1.37 billion), would save the average Israeli family around 10,488 shekels ($3,270) a year Israel unveiled a $1.3 billion plan to reduce the...
CCPA passes order for discontinuation of Sensodyne ads in India
As per the order, the CCPA has directed GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Consumer Healthcare to discontinue all advertisements for Sensodyne in the country within seven days of the issuance of the order as the ads showed dentists practicing outside India endorsing the products...
99 of India’s leading financial advisors invest in Network FP to build an End-to-End Edutech Platform
India has over 3 crore families with an income of Rs 10 lakhs per annum and above. Such families need professional money managers as majority of them don't have time or required skills/knowledge to manage money, investments & insurance on their own. Network FP...
RBI holds interest rates steady, projects 7.8% GDP growth for 2022-23
Shaktikanta Das,governor, Reserve Bank of India The monetary policy committee (MPC) held the lending rate, or the repo rate, at 4%. The reverse repo rate, or the key borrowing rate, was kept unchanged at 3.35% "Overall, taking into consideration the outlook for...
Nova Benefits raises funds from AngelList Early-Stage Quant Fund in India
Nova Benefits, an employee wellness platform centred on corporate health insurance, today became the first investment of AngelList Early-Stage Quant Fund in India. Investors shortlisted Nova Benefits based on data reflecting the company’s high hiring velocity. As part...
Pandemic propels workers closer to four-day week
From Iceland to Australia, governments and business are testing shorter work weeks, be it in fashion or fast food. With dozens of companies set to take part in Britain's biggest ever trial of a four-day week, joining similar pilots in five other countries, Smith is at...
European, U.S. regulators tell banks to prepare for Russian cyberattack threat
Now the European Central Bank, led by former French minister Christine Lagarde and which has oversight of Europe's biggest lenders, is on alert for the threat of cyber attacks on banks launched from Russia, the people said FRANKFURT/LONDON: The European Central Bank...
India received USD 339.55 billion FDI in last 5 years
The government has recently undertaken a number of reforms across sectors. In the last one year alone, reforms in the FDI policy have been undertaken in sectors such as insurance, defence, petroleum and natural gas, and telecom India has received Foreign Direct...
Former Warburg banker gets jail term in German fraud trial
He is the second person to receive a jail sentence for trading activity that thrived during the years after the financial crash and cost Germany more than five billion euros ($5.72 billion) The fraud involved trading shares rapidly around a syndicate of banks,...
Surety Bond: To Be On a Sure Footing
Rrajesh Sharrma, CEO and Principal Officer, Anand Rathi Insurance Brokers Considering the size of the Indian economy, the market demand for surety insurance will be so huge, it can be another game-changer like agricultural insurance after the introduction of Pradhan...
WHO: Global COVID-19 case counts decline 17 per cent in latest week
"The prevalence of the omicron variant has increased globally and is now detected in almost all countries," WHO said. "However, many of the countries which reported an early rise in the number of cases due to the omicron variant have now reported a decline in the...
Hospitals begin to limp out of the latest COVID-19 surge
"What we want to see is that the omicron surge continues to decrease, that we don't see another variant of concern emerge, that we start to come out of the other side of this," said Dr. Chris Beyrer, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public...