by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 19, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Technology
As tensions mount between China and the United States, automakers in the West are trying to reduce their reliance on a key driver of the electric vehicle revolution – the magnets made with rare earth metals that power electric engines. Here's how EVs are...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 19, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance, Technology
The United States, along with its allies, has decided to expose the People's Republic of China's pattern of "malicious cyber activities" and take further action to counter it. In a statement on Sunday (local time), the senior administration officials...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 19, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: With an increased recovery rate of 97.32 per cent, India witnessed 38,660 recoveries from COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, taking the recovery tally to 3,03,08,456. As many as 38,164 new COVID-19 cases were reported in the last 24 hours, according to...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 18, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
Now that two-thirds of all adults in the United States have received at least one dose of a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine as of mid-July 2021, life seems to be returning to some semblance of pre-pandemic times. People are again traveling, eating in restaurants with friends,...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 18, 2021 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
Mumbai: At least 30 people died and five others were injured in rain-related incidents as incessant heavy downpour overnight during a major thunderstorm pummeled Mumbai, causing severe water-logging and traffic disruptions in the financial capital on Sunday,...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 18, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life, Risk Management, Technology
New Delhi: More than 300 verified mobile phone numbers, including of two serving ministers, over 40 journalists, three opposition leaders and one sitting judge besides scores of business persons and activists in India could have been targeted for hacking through an...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 18, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
Mecca: Tens of thousands of vaccinated Muslim pilgrims circled Islam's holiest site in Mecca on Sunday, but remained socially distanced and wore masks as the coronavirus takes its toll on the hajj for a second year running. What once drew some 2.5 million...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 18, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News
Beijing: A Beijing-based veterinarian who was confirmed as China's first human infection case with Monkey B virus (BV) has died, amid rising concerns, the official media here reported. The 53-year-old male vet, who worked for an institution researching on...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 18, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance, Risk Management
LONDON: Global issuance of sustainable debt is on track to surpass $1 trillion this year with green bonds dominating while emerging markets have some catching up do to, the Institute of International Finance (IIF) said in a report. With corporations and...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 18, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
London: Investigating how climate affects intense rainstorms across Europe, climate experts have shown there will be a significant future increase in the occurrence of slow-moving intense rainstorms. The scientists estimate that these slow-moving storms may be...
