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US reissues travel advisory urges Americans not to travel to India

“Do not travel to India due to COVID-19. Exercise increased caution due to crime and terrorism,” the State Department said on Wednesday in its latest travel advisory that looked identical to the one issued on April 28.

Both the travel advisory has been marked ‘Level 4’ which is the highest warning level.

Foreign players can invest upto 74% in Indian insurance sector soon:Irda Chief

“We are committed to usher in risk-based capital (RBC) framework, which is more objective and beneficial for insurers that manage risk well. It should be possible to change over in a period of 3 years. We also plan to synchronise with the new accounting standard Ind AS 117 based on IFRS-17,” explained said Subhash Khuntia, chairman, IRDAI in an interview with Asia Insurance Post..

India’s fiscal response to COVID conservative, need large stimulus: Report

Azim Premji University’s .report, ‘State of Working India 2021: One Year of Covid-19,’ said the impacts of the second wave are still unfolding and may be as large, or larger than the first one.

Further, coming as it does on the back of depleted savings, debt, and reduced fallback options, the second wave can lead to potentially larger impacts on work, incomes, food security, health and education, the report said.

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Lloyd’s announces an aggregated market loss of £2bn for 2017

key financial figures are:
• Aggregated market pre-tax loss of £2bn (2016: Pre-tax profit of £2.1bn)
• Gross written premiums of £33.6bn (2016: £29.9bn)
• Major claims for 2017 were £4.5bn (2016: £2.1bn)
• Net investment return of £1.8bn (2016: £1.3bn)
• Combined ratio of 114.0% (2016: 97.9%)

Self-driving Uber kills US woman in first fatal crash involving pedestrian

UBER said it was suspending North American tests of its self-driving vehicles, which are currently going on in Arizona, Pittsburgh and Toronto.“This tragic accident underscores why we need to be exceptionally cautious when testing and deploying autonomous vehicle technologies on public roads,” said Democratic Senator Edward Markey, a member of the transportation committee, in a statement.

GIC Re’s new Lloyd’s Syndicate to begin ops in Apr

Alice Vaidyan, CMD, GIC Re, said,“The Indian official reinsurer wishes to be the 10th (currently 12th)  largest reinsurer in the world at the end of the current fiscal and the Syndicate formation marks an inflexion point in our corporate history through provision of global business access in collaboration with a globally respected brand and will help us broaden diversification and leverage deployment of capital resources.”

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