by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 11, 2021 | Banking & Bancassurance, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Regulation, Risk Management
Mumbai: Foreign banks have been forced to unwind billions of dollars worth of profitable currency trades at the behest of India’s central bank, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The issue in focus is a flurry of currency swap trades that involved...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 11, 2021 | Banking & Bancassurance, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Technology
New Delhi: The government on Tuesday said nearly 72 per cent of financial transactions of public sector banks (PSBs) are now done through digital channels, with customers active on digital channels having doubled from 3.4 crore in 2019-20 to 7.6 crore in...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 11, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Risk Management, Technology
New Delhi: The government and the industry need to adopt best practices including zero trust identity and access management policy to validate devices connected to an organisation's network to prevent cyber attacks, a senior adviser at Niti Ayog said on Tuesday....
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 11, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Technology
New Delhi: With rising cyber crime cases across the country, 18 states have got state-of-the-art cyber forensic-cum-training laboratories. These laboratories, set up with the help of the Ministry of Home Affairs, have helped the law enforcement agencies in...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 10, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic, Policy
New Delhi: The government Tuesday informed the Rajya Sabha that as on August 5, 1016 claims have been settled and paid under a central insurance scheme for health workers fighting Covid while 276 claims have either been withdrawn by the states and union...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 10, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Policy
New Delhi: Putting a cap on the trade margin of 42 select non-scheduled anti-cancer medicines by the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) resulted in reduction of up to 90 per cent in the maximum retail price of 526 brands of these drugs, Parliament was...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 10, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
LOS ANGELES: People who are infected with the virus that causes Covid-19 while pregnant face a higher risk of having a very preterm birth, as well as any preterm birth, according to a large US study published in The Lancet Regional Health – Americas...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 10, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
Lucknow: A major post-Covid impact is being seen in patients who are reporting hormonal imbalances. The Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS) is getting, on an average, ten such patients every day. Professor Gyan Chand of SGPGIMS said that...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 10, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Life, Non-Life, Pandemic, Policy
New Delhi: As of July 25, 20.32 lakh tests and 7.08 lakh hospital admissions related to COVID-19 were authorised under the Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY), the government informed Parliament on Tuesday. Public health being a state...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 10, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Policy
Geneva: Officials in Guinea have confirmed a case of the Marburg virus disease, the first appearance of the deadly illness in West Africa, the World Health Organization said on Monday. "The potential for the Marburg virus to spread far and wide means we need to...
