by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 26, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts
Indigenous people living on the frontline of climate change could offer potentially ground-breaking insight into biodiversity protection and sustainability, but they urgently need help to withstand a growing number of threats to their way of life, the Food and...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 26, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic, Reinsurance
UROOBA JAMAL and IVANA BZGANOVIC Swansea, WALES: More than 15 months into the coronavirus pandemic, tens of thousands of seafarers vital to the global shipping industry remain stranded at sea or in ports, unable to leave their ships or get to new assignments...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 26, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance, Technology
Intel Corp. Chief Executive Officer Pat Gelsinger predicted the shortage of semiconductors that’s hurting industries from automotive to consumer electronics will bottom out in the second half of this year before starting to improve. “I don’t...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 26, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic, Risk Management
Mumbai/Kolkata Indian police said Friday that around 2,000 people were injected with fake Covid-19 vaccines in Mumbai, and another 500 — some of them disabled — may have suffered the same fate in a second major city. Vaccination rates rose sharply...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 26, 2021 | Indian News, Non-Life
New Delhi: Leading web aggregator Policybazaar on Friday said it has embarked its insurance broking journey with 15 outlets and aims to expand it to 100 locations. Recently, insurance regulator IRDAI approved insurance broking licence proposal of the company and will...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 26, 2021 | Banking & Bancassurance, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
NEW DELHI: Life Insurance Corporation (LIC), SBI Life and Canara Bank were among the top investors picking up stakes in Indian Bank under a QIP, according to a regulatory filing. The country's largest and the only state-owned life insurer, LIC, picked up 17.80 per...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 26, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Life
Pune: The first batch of Covovax, a Covid-19 vaccine developed by Novavax Inc, is being manufactured at the Serum Institute of India's Pune facility, SII CEO Adar Poonawalla said on Friday. “Excited to witness the first batch of Covovax (developed by...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 26, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Life, Non-Life, Pandemic
Australia and Israel, which had been successful in fending off Covid-19, reimposed restrictions on Friday as cases surged of the highly contagious Delta variant, which also threatened Africa with a brutal third wave. In Australia, around a million people in...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 26, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Life, Non-Life, Pandemic, Risk Management
New Delhi: The third wave of COVID-19 — if it occurs — is unlikely to be as severe as the second wave given the extent of spread of coronavirus infections that have already taken place in the country, according to a study. The study, based on...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 26, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life
Pfizer Inc said on Thursday that it is pausing the distribution of its anti-smoking treatment, Chantix, after finding elevated levels of cancer-causing agents called nitrosamines in the pills. The drugmaker is recalling a number of lots of anti-smoking drugs. The U.S....
