by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 8, 2021 | Workplace/Employee Benefits
Of the estimated 6.3 billion tonnes of plastics produced before 2015, almost 80 per cent had never been properly disposed of Asia was estimated to be the largest user of plastics in agricultural production, accounting for almost half of global usage. Moreover, without...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 8, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health
According to the analysis, moderate disruptions in the delivery of malaria services contributed to 14 million malaria cases and 69,000 deaths Two thirds (or 47,000) of the additional malaria deaths, were due to disruptions in the provision of malaria prevention,...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 8, 2021 | Facts, Risk Management, Technology
COVID-19 saw Internet user ranks grow from 4.1 billion in 2019 to 4.9 billion two years later, data from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a UN agency, has revealed. The additional 782 million people who came online during this period, represents more...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 8, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Workplace/Employee Benefits
With reports that the new COVID variant Omicron is unlikely to be more severe than the Delta variant, an overall positive sentiment persisted in the global markets Mumbai: Investors saw their wealth rise by more than Rs 3.96 lakh crore on Wednesday as stocks continued...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 8, 2021 | Banking & Bancassurance, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Regulation
Shaktikanta Das, governor, RBI The RBI’s monetary policy committee held the lending rate, or the repo rate, at 4%. The reverse repo rate, or the key borrowing rate, was also maintained at 3.35% RBI governor Das said that the Indian economy is relatively...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 8, 2021 | Facts, Health, Policy, Regulation
UN: Forty countries now have best-practice trans fat elimination policies in effect, protecting 1.4 billion people from this deadly food compound, according to a report released on Tuesday by the World Health Organization (WHO). Around 940 million people living in...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 8, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts
According to the report, average household wealth in India stands at Rs 983,010 New Delhi: India stands out as a poor and very unequal country, with the top 1 per cent of the population holding more than one-fifth of the total national income in 2021 and the bottom...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 7, 2021 | Workplace/Employee Benefits
Insurers will now need to investigate and test how the model will operate to drive down premiums and improve availability for cyclone and cyclone-related flood and we look forward to further engagement with Government over the next two weeks of consultation on the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 7, 2021 | Health, International News, Pandemic
The data, yet to be published in a peer-reviewed medical journal, shows that the companies’ treatment, sotrovimab, is effective against all 37 identified mutations to date in the spike protein, GSK said in a statement London: British drugmaker GSK said on...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 7, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Policy, Regulation, Workplace/Employee Benefits
“Despite the measures taken in different sectors towards improvement of air quality in Delhi-NCR, the air quality still remains in the ‘very poor’ to ‘severe’ category,” the Commission for Air Quality Management said. NEW DELHI:In a...
