by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 17, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life, Technology
New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Friday said the 'Central Equipment Identity Register' project undertaken by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) in collaboration with the force will enable reporting, blocking and tracing of IMEI numbers of stolen or lost...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 17, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Pandemic, Policy
WELLINGTON: Leaders of the Asia-Pacific trade group APEC, including U.S. President Joe Biden, Russia's Vladimir Putin, and China's Xi Jinping, pledged on Friday to work to expand sharing and manufacturing of COVID-19 vaccines to fight the global...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 17, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life
MUMBAI: Summer-sown crop planting in India has been lagging as central and northern parts of the country received scant rainfall, the government said on Friday, raising concerns about food grain production and inflation in Asia's third biggest economy....
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 17, 2021 | Disaster & Management, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic, Risk Management, Technology
Washington: President Joe Biden has said that social media companies are killing people by failing to police misinformation on their platforms about COVID-19 vaccines. Biden's comments came a day after US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 17, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic, Policy
New Delhi: The Centre has placed an order to procure 660 million more doses of Covishield and Covaxin to be supplied between August and December this year, at a revised price of Rs 205 and Rs 215 per dose, respectively, excluding taxes, official sources said....
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 17, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life
Bengaluru: Ola Electric on Saturday said it has received around 1 lakh bookings for its upcoming scooter within the first 24 hours of initiating the process. The company is expected to price its electric scooter in the range of Rs 85,000-Rs 1.1 lakh. The price...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 17, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
MADRID/BRUSSELS: The extreme rainfall causing deadly flooding across western Germany and Belgium has been so alarming, many across Europe are asking if climate change is to blame. Scientists have long said that climate change will lead to heavier downpours. But...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 17, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News
Tokyo: With just six days to go for the much-awaited Tokyo Olympics, the first case of coronavirus has been detected at the Games village. According to NHK World, the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics organising committee said the infected person is a foreign...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 17, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Policy
New Delhi: In a bid to improve medical infrastructure in non-metros, the National Credit Guarantee Trustee Company Ltd (NCGTC) on Friday issued operational guidelines for the Rs 50,000-crore credit guarantee scheme announced as part of Rs 6.29-lakh-crore stimulus...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 17, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Risk Management, Technology
The Covid-19 pandemic and rising digitisation has led to a surge in cybercrimes. India saw the number of breaches increased by 2,000 per cent during the pandemic, said experts at Pursuit 2021 — an event on cybersecurity organised by Internet and Mobile...
