by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 20, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: Zydus Cadila's wait for a regulatory nod for its ZyCoV-D plasmid DNA vaccine against Covid is over. The Ahmedabad-based pharma company has received approval from the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI). According to a press release of the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 20, 2021 | Banking & Bancassurance, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Life, Non-Life, Policy
New Delhi: The government has said applications for foreign direct investment in an insurance company promoted by a private bank will be cleared by the RBI and Irdai to ensure that the 74 per cent limit of overseas investment is not breached. These changes were made...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 20, 2021 | International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
The general insurance industry in Japan is projected to grow from US$104.1bn(JPY11.1 trillion) in 2020 to US$133.1bn(JPY12.6 trillion) in 2025, in terms of gross written premiums (GWP), according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. GlobalData has...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 20, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Regulation, Risk Management, Technology
LONDON: More than a decade on from the financial crisis, regulators are spooked once again that some companies at the heart of the financial system are too big to fail. But they're not banks. This time it's the tech giants including Google, Amazon and...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 20, 2021 | Banking & Bancassurance, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Policy
HONG KONG:- Global banks and other financial institutions in Hong Kong are scrambling to find out details of China's planned imposition of an anti-sanctions law on the city, and trying to understand how it could impact their operations in the financial hub....
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 20, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
BENGALURU: Johnson & Johnson has sought approval from Indian drug regulators to conduct a study of its COVID-19 vaccine among 12- to 17-year-olds, the company said on Friday. Conducting vaccine clinical trials among adolescents is imperative to achieve herd...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 20, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Technology
LONDON: Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Liquid said on Thursday it was hit by hackers in a theft estimated to top $94 million, in the latest targetting of a crypto platform. "We are sorry to announce that #LiquidGlobal warm wallets were compromised, we...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 20, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Technology
Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk on Thursday said the electric automaker will probably launch a "Tesla Bot" humanoid robot prototype next year, designed for dangerous, repetitive, or boring work that people don't like to do. Speaking at Tesla's AI...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 20, 2021 | Articles, Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography
This month's hard-hitting report from the U.N. climate science panel sounded the alarm on the surging impacts of global warming – but its authors and independent researchers said it did not provide enough insight on threats in poorer parts of the world....
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 20, 2021 | Articles, Eco/Invest/Demography, Non-Life
Korean automobile companies have sold 2,297,000 units in the global market in the first half of this year, closing to the level of 2,303,000 units sold in the first half of 2019. In particular, global market share increased by 0.6 per cent p from 7.4 per cent...
