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Here is a masonry blog layout with no sidebarIndia to give $3.5 billion in revised clean tech scheme for automakers – sources
Under the revised scheme, companies that qualify will get cashback payments equivalent to around 10%-20% of their turnover for EVs and hydrogen fuel cell cars, one of the sources said.
Carmakers would need to invest a minimum of about $272 million over five years to qualify for the payments.
Auto parts makers will get incentives to produce components for clean cars and for investing in safety-related parts and other advanced technologies like sensors and radars used in connected vehicles.
COVID-19 disruption causing many deaths from TB, AIDS in poorest countries, fund says
Cannot order door-to-door COVID vaccination in this diverse country, or just scrap policy: SC
A bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud, Vikram Nath, and Hima Kohli refused to entertain a plea of a lawyers’ body seeking door-to-door COVID-19 jab for the disabled and people belonging to weaker sections of society, said the vaccination drive is already in progress and over 60 percent of the population has been administered the first dose.
Shared ‘grief and anxiety’ a powerful unifying factor in COVID fight
India’s fintech market to triple to Rs 6.2 lakh cr by 2025: MoS Finance Karad
Minister of State for Finance Bhagwat K Karad said that India has been ranked number one in terms of digital transactions and the total digital transactions have crossed 25 billion.
India provides a great ecosystem for Fintech development like access to bank accounts under the PM Jandhan Yojana, digilockers and scalable platforms including UPI.
Reinsurance price rise slowing due to strong capital supply and recovering profitability: Fitch
Fitch expects the sector’s combined ratio, normalised for large losses, to improve by 2pp–3pp in 2021 and another 1pp–2pp in 2022 as price increases gradually feed into underwriting margins.
However, price rises are slowing due to strong capital supply and recovering profitability, and we expect risk-adjusted prices to remain largely unchanged in 2022.
New India’s credit ratings affirmed, with $ 5.1 billion of capital co can insure large overseas risks: AM Best
NIA’s balance sheet strength assessment is underpinned by its risk-adjusted capitalisation, which remained at the strongest level in fiscal year 2021, as measured by Best’s Capital Adequacy Ratio (BCAR).Its underwriting portfolio is considered to be well-diversified by line of business, distribution channels and geographically. In addition, the company is the only direct insurer in India with considerable overseas operations, which provide a level of diversification to its domestic portfolio. While the domestic market continues to present significant growth opportunities for New India, intense competition in the largest lines of motor and health business continue to drive premium rate inadequacies and pressure underwriting margins, said AM Best.
RMS to enhance risk analysis for J. B. Boda’s India Portfolio
This agreement will strengthen J. B. Boda’s risk analysis capabilities to enhance their support of clients that have portfolios with risk exposure in India. J. B. Boda continues to grow its activities and client base in various markets. It is further enhancing its in-house capability of assessing risks.
AXA exits insurance operations in Gulf region
From locusts to cyclones: the human cost of interlinked disasters
The huge locust swarm which hit the Horn of Africa in the Spring of 2020, and Cyclone Amphan, which struck the border region of India and Bangladesh in May that year, might not seem, on the face of it, to be connected, but a report released on Wednesday by UN University, the academic and research arm of the UN, shows that there were connected underlying causes: greenhouse gas emissions from human activity, which are affecting the environment in unpredictable ways, and a lack of sufficient disaster risk management.
Govt considering foreign institutional investment of up to 20% in LIC IPO: Report
The listing of LIC is set to be India’s biggest ever IPO, with the government aiming to raise up to Rs. 900 billion ($12.24 billion) from its stake sale.
The move will help ease the fund-raising process for the IPO planned by the government for the company most likely in the current financial year. The IPO is expected to be offered in two parts to investors given concerns over the Indian stock market’s ability to absorb an offering of such a size.
Neeraj Chopra signs first brand endorsement with Tata AIA Life
This association also marks the very first brand partnership to be signed with the champion javelin thrower, post his historic Olympic win.Over the next few years, Neeraj will support Tata AIA’s efforts in offering best in class life protection and health & wellness solutions to its consumers across the country.
India to post strong GDP growth in coming quarters: S&P
India Inc resorted to salary cuts in Q1, will be drag on economic recovery: Report
The “weak” wage growth will prove to be a drag on the overall economic recovery in the medium term as it will affect household consumption, the report by India Ratings and Research said.
An environment of pandemic-led uncertainty and elevated inflation could impact the level of spending and hence the overall demand. Resuscitating wages will be critical for a revival of the overall economy and Capex cycle, which has been languishing even before the COVID-19 outbreak, it said., it said.
In a world first, Cuba to give Covid jabs to anyone over 2
Several other countries in the world are vaccinating children from the age of 12, and some are conducting trials in younger kids. Countries such as China, the UAE and Venezuela have announced they plan to vaccinate younger children, but Cuba is the first to do so. Chile on Monday approved the Sinovac vaccines for kids between six and 12.
‘It’s connected to you’: Shared causes fuel surge in disasters
From Arctic heat and wildfires to Texas cold-weather power outages and Amazon deforestation, threats around the world that may seem unrelated are increasingly compounding each other, United Nations researchers said in a report released Wednesday.
The underlying causes of the rising risks – from climate change to lack of cooperation among governments and ignoring the value of nature in economic decision-making – are common across many of them, researchers said.
At least 50 missing after boat capsizes on Brahmaputra in Assam
Jorhat district police chief Ankur Jain said that the police and the disaster management personnel located the capsized boat about 350 metres from the riverbank.
“We have rescued around 20 people on board the boar from various places downstream. However, around 50 people are missing till late evening,” he told the media adding that the searches for the missing people are on.