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Covid: Around 390 families have applied for financial aid under Delhi govt scheme, says Gautam

”As on July 9, the Social Welfare Department has received 390 applications under this scheme. 220 beneficiaries have applied for a pension of Rs 2,500 per month and 170 have applied for Rs 50,000 ex gratia amount,” a statement quotingGautam said. Since the scheme was launched recently, it may take time for the beneficiaries to collect all the required documents. But the process of application will be fast-tracked in the coming days, it said. Gautam said the representatives of the department will go door to door to help the beneficiaries fill up application forms.

UP Population Bill draft denies government jobs, subsidy If more than 2 children

Listing incentives for public servants who adopt the two-child norm, the draft bill says, “Public servants who adopt the two-child norm will get two additional increments during the entire service, maternity or as the case may be, paternity leave of 12 months, with full salary and allowances and three per cent increase in the employer’s contribution fund under national pension scheme.”

India’s summer crop planting lags as monsoon rains taper off

India, one of the world’s top agriculture producers, has received 5% below average rainfall since June 1, when the four-month rainy season began. Monsoon rains were 46% below average in the week to July 7.

The state-run weather office defines average, or normal, rainfall as between 96% and 104% of a 50-year average of 88 cm for the entire season.

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Canopius hires 4 in APAC growth drive

The appointments support Canopius’ ambition to expand in the Asia Pacific region by targeting a combination of SME business via coverholders and wholesale direct and facultative.

Massive earthquake hits California, towns survey damage amid 1700 aftershocks

There had been about 1,700 aftershocks since the Thursday quake, which was a bit higher than average, said Zachary Ross of the California Institute of Technology.
“An event of this size is going to keep producing aftershocks for years but the rates are going to decay with time,” Ross said.

Global insurance prms exceed a record $5 trillion in 2018, to grow by 3% in 2019/20:Swiss Re Study

The non-life sector faces a fundamental structural shift over the next decades,with a possible decline in premiums from motor, the dominant line of business today. This potential decline will come as a result of the ongoing evolution of advanced driver-assistance systems and self-driving car technologies, which are expected to lead to lower claims, and so also lower premium rates and volumes in motor.

Global #MeToo movement provides lots of work for London’s top lawyers

Horacio Bernardes Neto, president of the International Bar Association that represents attorneys, said in May that law firms hired to advise corporations on how to handle harassment allegations needed to get their own hiring and workplace behavior in order because of the risk being called out for hypocrisy, after a global survey found one in three female attorneys has been sexually harassed at work.

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