by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 17, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance, Risk Management
LONDON: Major reinsurers have already pulled back from providing bespoke cover for coal projects as part of efforts to meet global climate change commitments, but now comes the hard part – finding ways to exclude coal from bulk-buy contracts, known as...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 17, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
Washington: The US is taking another medical moonshot to beat the pandemic, plowing in $3.2 billion to develop antiviral pills to treat Covid-19 infections. If all goes well, some of those pills might become available by the end of this year. The new programme, coming...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 17, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
WASHINGTON: The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a Republican bid that had been backed by former President Donald Trump’s administration to invalidate the Obamacare healthcare law, ruling that Texas and other challengers had no legal standing to file...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 17, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life, Policy, Reinsurance, Risk Management
New Delhi: Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said his target is to reduce the number of road accidents and resultant deaths by 50 per cent before 2024 and that efforts are also being made to improve the quality of roads. Gadkari, who is known for his...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 17, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health
New Delhi: Household heating and cooking accounted for 40 per cent of Delhi's PM 2.5 pollution in December 2020 and January 2021, according to a new study. Though recent assessments on the use of biomass in Delhi are not available, a large number of...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 17, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
UN: Based on its estimates that more than 700,000 people, or one-in-100, died by suicide in 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) produced new LIVE LIFE guidelines to help countries reduce that rate by a third, no later than 2030. “We cannot –...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 17, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
New Delhi: Union Power Minister RK Singh on Thursday said a committee will be set up having members from all relevant ministries for implementation of the roadmap on energy efficiency and low carbon technologies. According to the power ministry, Singh chaired a...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 17, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
New Delhi: A third possible wave in India by the prevailing COVID-19 virus variant is unlikely to disproportionately affect children than adults, a seroprevalence study conducted by the World Health Organisation and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 17, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life, Technology
Chandigarh: Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Thursday said his government has formed a ''drone corporation'', which will help departments in getting an aerial survey of various activities done. The aerial survey of the law and order...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 17, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts
India maintained 43rd rank on an annual World Competitiveness Index compiled by the Institute for Management Development (IMD) that examined the impact of COVID-19 on economies around the world this year. The 64-nation list was led by Switzerland, while Sweden...
