by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 21, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Policy, Regulation
New Delhi: Several doctors on Friday protested here as part of a nationwide stir called by the IMA over recent incidents of violence against healthcare professionals, and to demand a central law to curb such cases. In Delhi, a group of doctors, belonging to both IMA...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 21, 2021 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday reserved its judgment on the petitions seeking direction to the concerned authorities, to provide ex gratia monetary compensation of Rs 4 lakhs (notified in the financial aid) to the family members of the deceased,...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 21, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Life, Non-Life
Mumbai: The domestic life insurance industry may see pressure on its profitability in the short-term as the coronavirus pandemic has cast doubt on the certainty related to morbidity and mortality in the country, ICICI Prudential Life said in its annual report....
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 21, 2021 | Articles, Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Technology
A'pointless way of using energy'? The amount of energy needed to power the Bitcoin network is staggering: Tim Berners-Lee, credited as the inventor of the World Wide Web, has gone so far as to describe "Bitcoin mining" as "one of the most...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 21, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic, Policy
New Delhi: The Centre has told the Supreme Court that all deaths with a diagnosis of Covid-19, irrespective of co-morbidities, are to be classified as deaths due to Covid-19. The MHA in its affidavit said: "All deaths with a diagnosis of Covid-19, irrespective of...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 20, 2021 | Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
Ahmedabad: A recent study by researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar has established the presence of coronavirus in water samples from the Sabarmati river and two lakes in Ahmedabad city of Gujarat. While the study, funded by...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 20, 2021 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Risk Management
Guwahati: A 4.2-magnitude earthquake struck Assam in the early hours of Saturday, the fifth such tremor to hit the northeastern region during the past 24 hours, officials said. A National Center for Seismology report said the latest quake was...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 20, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts
– The Indian athletes and officials travelling for the Tokyo Olympics have been asked by the Japanese government to undergo daily COVID-19 tests for a week prior to their departure and not interact with anyone from another country for three days on arrival,...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 20, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Life, Non-Life, Pandemic
After more than a year of obsessively tracking Covid-19 case numbers, epidemiologists are starting to shift focus to other measures as the next stage of the pandemic emerges. With rich countries vaccinating growing proportions of their vulnerable populations,...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 20, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Policy
New Delhi: The commerce and industry ministry has floated a draft cabinet note seeking inter-ministerial views on a proposal to allow up to 100 per cent foreign investment under automatic route in oil and gas PSUs, which have an 'in-principle' approval for...
