by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 2, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Life, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: India reported 40,134 new cases of COVID-19 and 422 deaths in the last 24 hours, as per the Union Health Ministry. The total number of cases currently stands at 3,16,95,958. The death toll has climbed to 4,24,773. The number of active cases of...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 2, 2021 | Indian News, Life, Non-Life, Policy
Chennai: Demanding functional autonomy and opposing privatisation, the major unions in the government-owned general insurers are not buying Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's views about the reasons for the government amending the General Insurance...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 1, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life, Policy, Regulation, Technology
New Delhi: Expressing satisfaction over the reforms introduced in examining and granting of patents, designs, copyrights and trademarks, Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Sunday said that the 'ease of doing business' will go a long...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 1, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Life, Non-Life
New Delhi: A woman who spent almost Rs 1 crore for the treatment of her Covid infected husband, knocked the doors of the Supreme Court pleading it to pass immediately the appropriate directions and order to the concerned authorities for her financial help from PM...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 1, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Life, Non-Life, Pandemic
Myanmar: With the increase in coronavirus deaths in Myanmar, accusations of residents and human rights activists that the military government, which took control in February, is using the pandemic to consolidate power and suppress the opposition, are becoming more...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 1, 2021 | Banking & Bancassurance, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Life, Non-Life, Policy, Regulation, Technology
Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India's new directions on raising interchange fee and making available the facility of bulk clearing round the clock have become effective from Sunday onwards. The RBI in June raised the interchange fee for financial transactions from...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 1, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Pandemic, Policy
New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday said that Goods and Services Tax (GST) collection for July 2021 has again crossed Rs one lakh crore with easing out of COVID-19 restrictions and added it indicates that the economy is recovering at a fast...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 1, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life, Technology
Mumbai: Tata Motors is looking at various measures, including direct buying from stockists and making changes in the product configurations, to offset the impact of semiconductor shortage on its production activities and sales, a top company official has said....
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 1, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life, Policy
New Delhi: As many as 479 infrastructure projects, each worth Rs 150 crore or more, have been hit by cost overruns totalling more than Rs 4.4 lakh crore, according to a report. The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation monitors infrastructure...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 1, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Life, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: India is likely to see a rise in Covid-19 infections building into a new — though smaller — virus wave that may peak in October, according to a mathematical model by researchers who accurately predicted the tapering of a brutal surge of...
