by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 19, 2021 | Articles, Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Policy, Regulation
The Bank of Japan unveiled a plan on Friday to boost funding for fighting climate change, a surprise move underscoring the growing importance of the issue for central banks. Following is a snapshot of how some of the world's biggest central banks are...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 19, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
China is considering ending its limits on childbirth by 2025 after finding its population growth is slowing down, said a report. According to told The Wall Street Journal, the country could completely eliminate its childbirth restrictions at the end of the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 19, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
Europe's drug regulator on Friday identified another very rare blood condition as a potential side effect of AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine and said it was looking into cases of heart inflammation after inoculation with all coronavirus shots. The...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 19, 2021 | Articles, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
Emily Ashton & Marc Daniel Davies London: At the start of the pandemic last March, Boris Johnson stood gravely in front of television cameras and told Britain the harsh reality. “Many more families are going to lose loved ones before their...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 18, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life
Shillong: Over 5,000 children in the age group of 0-14 years have tested positive for Covid-19 in Meghalaya, 17 of which succumbed to the infection, Health Minister A L Hek said on Friday. He also stated that none of the newborns delivered by Covid-positive mothers...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 18, 2021 | Banking & Bancassurance, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
MUMBAI, Diversified financial services player Centrum Group on Friday said it has received an in-principle approval from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to take over the troubled cooperative lender PMC Bank and re-launch it as a small finance bank. Centrum...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 18, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
Geneva: The Delta variant of COVID-19, first identified in India, is becoming the globally dominant variant of the disease, the World Health Organization's chief scientist said on Friday. Soumya Swaminathan also voiced disappointment in the failure of...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 18, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
Mumbai: Health officials in India's richest state have urged authorities to step up preparations against a possible third wave of coronavirus infections, they said on Friday, as lockdowns eased less than a month after a surge that killed thousands....
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 18, 2021 | Indian News
Satara: Having watched his father’s funeral pyre burn by a river bank close to their farm last month, Indian sugarcane grower Dattatray Bagal and his brothers had to set aside grief to count the financial cost of the coronavirus’s impact on their...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 18, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: Studies among healthcare workers have shown that following vaccination the chances of hospitalisation reduce by 75-80 per cent, while oxygen requirement comes down to 8 per cent even after contracting COVID-19, the government said on Friday....
