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Here is a masonry blog layout with no sidebarOver 19.22 lakh new vehicles registered in Maha in 2021; registrations up by 8.26 pc
As per the transport department data, of the total 19,22,418 newly registered vehicles, 13,16,216 were motorcycles, 3,46,197 private cars and 1,26,551 transport category vehicles, which need permits to operate, such as buses, trucks and taxis Mumbai: Over 19.22 lakh...
Cyber perils outrank Covid-19 and broken supply chains as top business risk globally and in Asia Pacific: Allianz Risk Barometer 2022
Cyber incidents tops the Allianz Risk Barometer for only the second time in the survey’s history (44% of responses), Business interruption drops to a close second (42%) and Natural catastrophes ranks third (25%), up from sixth in 2021 London/Munich/New...
LIC listing: Inside the all-out campaign to prepare India’s biggest IPO
A knock-out listing could see LIC raise as much as $10 billion from the IPO with a minimum dilution of 5%. That would make it the third biggest globally involving an insurer Mumbai:In Mumbai’s sleek skyscrapers, harried bankers race the clock to appraise a company...
Decision on COVID vaccination for children between 12-14 yrs yet to be taken by Health Ministry
Dr NK Arora, Chairman of COVID-19 working group of NTAGI, said that looking at the current pace of the vaccination, India may begin inoculating children in the age group of 12-14 years in March. About 46 percent of adolescents aged 15-18 years have received their...
India should adopt risk-based approach not blanket bans to contain Covid: WHO India head
''WHO does not recommend a blanket travel ban, nor complete restriction of people's movement. In many ways, such blanket approaches can be counterproductive. India with its diversity in population distribution and geographic spread, the risk-based approach remains the...
Sanctioned Rs 50,000 compensation to each of 68,370 claims for COVID-19 deaths: Guj govt tells SC
The state government had said that it received 89,633 claim forms (applications) seeking compensation for COVID-19 deaths, out of which 58,840 claims have been settled and the amount has been disbursed to applicants New Delhi: The Gujarat government has told the...
IRDAI reduces general insurers’ obligatory cession for GIC Re to 4 % from 5 % in FY 2023
The approximate size of the Indian reinsurnace market is around Rs 55,000 cror in FY.2020-21. To begin with, obligatory cession for GIC Re was 10 per cent which was reduced to five per cent afterwards and the foreign reinsurers which are having braches in India are...
Govt seeks applications for a new IRDAI member(Non-Life)
TL Alamelu, member(Non-Life), IRDAI will be retiring on May 6,2022 after completing her three-year tenure New Delhi: The government on Monday has asked for applications to appoint a new member (Non-life), in Hyderabad based IRDAI. The current member(Non-Life),TL...
India’s Gennova developing Omicron-specific COVID-19 vaccine
The source said Gennova on Friday separately submitted to India's drug regulator phase 2 trial data for its original mRNA vaccine candidate. The government said last year that product was found to be "safe, tolerable, and immunogenic" in the participants of an initial...
India needs Green Revolution 2.0 to make agri more climate-resistant, sustainable: RBI
The article said the current overproduction of crops like rice, wheat and sugarcane, has led to rapid depletion of the ground-water table, soil degradation and massive air pollution raising questions about the environmental sustainability of current agricultural...
Increase fund allocation for adolescents’, elderly’s health in upcoming budget: NGOs
Population Foundation of India, asked for a substantial increase in budget allocations for health, nutrition and education and skill building of adolescents in the forthcoming Union budget 2022-23. New Delhi: NGOs have urged the government to increase the allocation...
India’s economy set to improve over next 12 months: PwC Annual Global CEO Survey
''99 per cent of CEOs in India believe India's economic growth will improve over the next 12 months, with 94 per cent of India CEOs being optimistic about global economic growth improving over the next 12 months as against 77 per cent of global CEOs,'' it said. New...
Banking, financial institutions struggling to deal with increasing fraud incidents: Deloitte survey
Key reasons identified for the increase in fraud incidents over the next two years include large-scale remote working models, increase in customers using non-branch banking channels and the limited/ineffective use of forensic analytics tools to identify potential red...
India’s billionaire count at 142 in 2021, 84% households see income decline in Pandemic: Oxfam India report
More than 4.6 crore Indians, meanwhile, are estimated to have fallen into extreme poverty in 2020 (nearly half of the global new poor according to the United Nations Moreover, the pandemic set gender parity back from 99 years to now 135 years. Women collectively lost...
Drinking water, ash big concern as Tonga damaged after tsunami
The eruption of the Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai volcano triggered a tsunami on the shores of Tonga and cut off phone and internet lines for the entire island. International communication has been severely hampered by damage to an undersea cable, which could take more...
Explainer: Scientists struggle to monitor Tonga volcano after massive eruption
Saturday's eruption was so powerful that space satellites captured not only huge clouds of ash but also an atmospheric shockwave that radiated out from the volcano at close to the speed of sound Some volcanologists are likening the eruption to the 1991 Pinatubo...
Super-rich thrive as COVID-19 pushes millions into poverty
A new billionaire has been created every 26 hours since the pandemic began. - More than 160 million people are estimated to have been pushed into poverty during the health crisis The world's 10 wealthiest people more than doubled their fortunes to $1.5 trillion during...
Odisha govt teams up with WFP to improve food security, farmers’ resilience to climate change
In a pilot initiative, advisories will be provided to small farmers of the state, which is particularly prone to cyclones, to help them adapt to impact of the climate crisis The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Odisha government have joined hands to...