by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 6, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Life, Non-Life, Pandemic, Pension & Social Security, Policy
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday launched a scheme and an online portal to provide financial assistance to families who lost their loved ones to COVID-19 and asked officials not to find faults in their claim applications. Under the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 6, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: India's COVID-19 deaths relative to infections hit a record high in June after cases peaked in early May, an analysis of government data shows, amid pressure on authorities to accurately report deaths from a second wave of the virus. A big rise...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 6, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
LUCKNOW: Asha Devi doesn't remember how many meals she has skipped as she struggles to feed her family of seven in a remote corner of northern India where the novel coronavirus is compounding old problems of rural debt and poverty. Devi, 35, had to mortgage her...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 6, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life, Risk Management, Technology
Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, MSMEs Nitin Gadkari on Monday said that safety audits have been mandated at all stages of road development to reduce accidents. Inaugurating a virtual symposium on vehicle crash safety, he said, "India and other...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 5, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Life, Non-Life
When it came to coronavirus vaccination, the third time was the charm for Esther Jones, a dialysis nurse in rural Oregon. After two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine failed to jolt her immune system into producing antibodies, she sought out a third, this...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 5, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
Kolkata: Kolkata-based ICMR-NICED has submitted a proposal to the Department of Biotechnology under the Union Ministry of Science and Technology for research on an oral COVID vaccine, a senior official of the institute said on Monday. The proposed research...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 5, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
WASHINGTON: More than one in 10, amounting to nearly 15 million people, in the US have missed their second dose of the Covid vaccine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).According to the CDC data, as of June 16, nearly 11% of people who...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 5, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Life, Non-Life
Thiruvananthapuram: With two-thirds of communicable diseases being animal-borne, they can be prevented only if there is knowledge about zoonotic diseases, Kerala Health Minister Veena George said on Monday. In a statement released on the eve of World Zoonoses Day, the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 5, 2021 | Articles, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Non-Life, Reinsurance, Risk Management, Technology
LONDON/NEW YORK/SINGAPORE: The sudden halt imposed on the aviation industry by the Covid-19 crisis hit the sector hard. In April 2020, two-thirds of the global commercial aviation fleet sat idle on the tarmac, while passenger traffic was down 90% year-on-year. Today,...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 5, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life, Policy, Regulation, Risk Management, Technology
Mumbai: Stock exchanges and other market infrastructure institutions as well as their top officials are liable to face penalties for lapses in handling and recitfying technical glitches, with Sebi putting in a place a stricter compliance system driven by...
