”India is the second largest insurance technology market in Asia-Pacific. India has at least 66 insurtech companies and accounted for 35 per cent of the USD 3.66 billion in insurtech-focused venture capital invested in the APAC region. ”Insurance technology investors are attracted to India since it is one of the fastest-growing insurance markets in the world,” S&P Global Market Intelligence fintech analyst Sampath Sharma Nariyanuri said.

China to relax birth policy but wary of social risks, sources say

May 18, 2021

A fertility rate of 1.3 children per woman in 2020, on par with ageing societies like Japan and Italy, underscores the risk for China: the world’s second-biggest economy may already be in irreversible population decline without having first accumulated the household wealth of G7 nations.

Irish health service may take weeks to recover from ransomware attack

May 18, 2021

There was widespread cancellation of radiology services across the country due to its reliance on the IT system and particular challenges in laboratories, the HSE said.

Stop developing new oil, gas, coalfields to avert climate crisis, says IEA

May 18, 2021

Reducing emissions to net zero — the point at which greenhouse gases are removed from the atmosphere as quickly as they’re added — is considered vital to limit the increase in average global temperatures to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius. That’s seen as the critical threshold if the world is to avoid disastrous climate change.

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