by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 12, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic, Risk Management
Geneva: Mixing and matching COVID-19 vaccines from different manufacturers is a "dangerous trend" and could lead to chaos as there is limited data on it on the practice, World Health Organisation (WHO) chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan said on Monday....
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 12, 2021 | Facts, Health, Technology
Washington: Rare genetic variants carried by one in 3,000 people that have a larger impact on the risk of developing type 2 diabetes than any previously identified genetic effect have been identified by scientists at the University of Cambridge. The study...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 12, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life
New Delhi:: As rains continued to play truant in Delhi, the India Meteorological Department on Monday said the failure of numerical models in predicting the monsoon advance over the capital this time is "rare and uncommon". The weather department said...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 12, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life, Policy, Technology
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said there is a need for a ''post-harvest revolution'' in the farm sector, which has been witnessing an increase in production. Modi said the hardworking farmers have made record production of...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 12, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Life, Policy
New Delhi: The Union Cabinet has cleared disinvestment of the country's largest insurer LIC and a panel headed by the finance minister will now decide on the quantum of stake dilution, a senior official said on Monday. The Department of Investment and Public Asset...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 12, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Policy
OTTAWA: Canada on Sunday ordered rail transport restrictions for areas where there is a high wildfire risk after a blaze wiped out the town of Lytton, British Columbia, and killed two people earlier this month. The order will require both Canadian...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 12, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance, Risk Management, Technology
A district council in eastern Germany has declared a disaster after its computer systems were paralyzed by a hacker attack in what the federal cyber-security watchdog confirmed was the country’s first-ever “cyber-catastrophe.” Hackers knocked...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 12, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Risk Management, Technology
New Delhi: As many as 24,781 responses have been received on the e-proceedings functionality and about 40,000 ITRs are being filed daily on the new I-T portal, the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) said as it addresses on war footing the technical glitches...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 12, 2021 | Indian News, Non-Life
Mumbai: The Maritime Union of India (MUI), which represents merchant navy officers, has initiated a 'Service to Stranded Seafarers' project, aimed at collating database of the Indian seafarers who are currently languishing in jails abroad. A delegation...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 12, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Life, Non-Life, Pandemic
Hyderabad : A senior physicist, who was pro-vice chancellor of University of Hyderabad and has thoroughly analysed the Covid-19 pattern in India, said on Monday that the third wave appeared to have set in on July 4. Dr Vipin Srivastava, who has developed a...
