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Parliament passes bill for privatisation of state-run general insurance companies
Stricter emissions rules will hit car sales, says Maruti Suzuki chairman
German and Chinese insurers endure their costliest natural disasters as IPCC confirms rise in extreme weather events: Aon report
Total economic losses due to catastrophic events across the globe exceed $52 billion. Seasonal monsoon flooding and associated convective storms continued in India throughout July, including a particularly intense spell from July 22-28. Hundreds of people were killed in July as the seasonal death toll rose to 534. The total economic loss in India increased to at least $1.6 billion; most of which is uninsured.
SC notice to Centre, others on plea seeking disclosure of data on Covid vaccine clinical trials
Iran says one person dying of Covid-19 every two minutes
Rare bacterial outbreak kills one in Georgia: U.S. health body
Melioidosis is an infectious disease caused by a bacterium called Burkholderia pseudomallei. It is predominantly a disease of tropical climates especially Northeast Asia and northern Austria.
CDC believes the most likely cause is an imported product (such as a food or drink, personal care or cleaning products or medicine) or an ingredient in one of those types of products.
India reports 28,204 new COVID-19 cases, lowest in 147 days
Lloyd’s chooses 11 Start-Ups for developing products on claims and cryptocurrencies
For the seventh cohort, the InsurTech start-ups have been selected based on solutions geared towards three key themes: claims, data and models, and cryptocurrencies. Additionally, for the second cohort in a row, the Lloyd’s Lab accepted wildcard entrants who presented solutions outside of the core themes.
These start-ups focus on important areas such as anti-money laundering, robotics and construction. The teams will be working to create insurance products and solutions which can be adapted to the Lloyd’s market.
Alibaba blasted by state media despite firing manager accused of sex assault
State media and online commentators were overwhelmingly critical of Alibaba’s perceived delay in handling the incident.
“Alibaba could not offer an answer that satisfies public opinion for this ham-handed inaction,” said an editorial in the Global Times tabloid, published by the state-run People’s Daily.
65 per cent of tuberculosis cases in 15-45 age group: Health minister
Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu turning his focus to the gravity of the disease suggested, “If all the local, central, and state governments, MPs, and officials join together and make it a people’s movement, it won’t be difficult to eliminate TB by 2025. The average life expectancy has increased to 69.4 years, which was 35 years in 1950.
Prince Andrew sued in NY court for alleged sex abuse
Virginia Giuffre claimed in suit filed Monday in Manhattan federal court that the British royal sexually abused her at Epstein’s home in New York, on his private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands and in the London home of Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite who is in jail awaiting trial on charges she helped Epstein traffic underage girls for sex.
Number of billionaires in India stands at 136 in FY21
The number of individuals disclosing a gross total income of more than Rs 100 crore (one billion rupees) in a year in his/her return of income filed with the Income Tax Department during 2018-19 stood at 77, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in a reply to the Rajya Sabha.
”As per the information available with Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), there is no legislative or administrative definition of the term billionaire under direct taxes. Wealth tax has been abolished with effect from 01.04.2016 and, therefore, CBDT does not any more capture information about complete wealth of an individual taxpayer,” she said.
Swiss Re appoints AIG’s Marilyn Blattner-Hoyle as global head Trade Finance
High cost of containers to impact India’s exports: TPCI
Digital payments sees significant growth in tier II, III towns
The report said that on August 6, 2021 – which marks the completion of 500 days of pandemic-related restrictions — a new lifestyle for disruptors and disruptive businesses has emerged with digital payments as its financial backbone.
Not a single sector has shown negative growth during the last 250 days, reflecting their openness to innovation and acceptance of digital modes of payments, it said.
73% of Indian firms expect customer data breach in next 1 year
Nearly 57 per cent Indian organisation among those surveyed said it was somewhat to very likely that they’d suffer serious cyber-attacks in the next 12 months.
While 34 per cent suffered more than 7 cyber attacks that infiltrated networks/systems, 20 per cent had more than 7 breaches of information assets.