by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 7, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
Dehradun: Uttrakhand has announced that it will include the 'Gross Environmental Product (GPE)' while tallying its gross domestic product, state forest minister Harak Singh Rawat said on Sunday. The announcement comes a day after World Environment Day and with...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 6, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Risk Management, Technology
Washington, Taking a tough stand on growing ransomware attacks, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and US Justice Department have announced to treat such cyber incidents as terror attacks. Christopher Wray, Director of the FBI, told The Wall Street...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 6, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: India reported 1,00,636 new COVID-19 cases and 2,427 deaths in the last 24 hours, said the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Monday. This is the lowest number of cases reported in the last 61 days. On April 5, 96,982 cases were reported. On Sunday,...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 6, 2021 | Banking & Bancassurance, Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
NEW DELHI: Private sector IndusInd Bank on Saturday said it will reduce carbon emissions to 50 per cent in next four years and raise climate financing to 3.5 per cent in two years. The bank will be increasing the allocation of capital towards climate finance to 3.5...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 6, 2021 | Blog, Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography
Justine Townsend, University of Guelph; Alexis Bunten, Bioneers Indigeneity Programme; Catherine Iorns, Victoria University of Wellington; Lindsay Borrows, University of Alberta Toronto:: The Muteshekau Shipu (Magpie River) runs nearly 300 kilometres in Qu...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 6, 2021 | Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
Since the start of the pandemic, very few adolescents have become ill enough with Covid-19 to be hospitalised. But of those who did, about one-third were admitted to ICUs, and 5% required ventilators, the US CDC reported Friday. These findings underscore the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 6, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Technology
Mumbai: Amid near-record rally in the equity markets during the pandemic-ravaged FY21, brokerages have added on an average 13 lakh new demat accounts every month since April last year, taking the overall retail investor headcount to record 6.97 crore as of May 31 this...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 6, 2021 | Blog, Eco/Invest/Demography, Risk Management, Technology
Andy Mukherjee Bitcoin’s wild gyrations in 2021 have made sure of one thing: The future of money will be electronic, but it won’t remotely resemble a cyberpunk utopia. People’s power will bow to sovereigns’ might. The mania and panic...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 6, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life
New Delhi: Coal India chief Pramod Agrawal has said that the coal behemoth is alive and sensitive to the need for environmental protection and the PSU pursues sustainable mining practices persistently. The statement assumes significance especially when there...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 6, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Pension & Social Security
More than 9.2 lakh children in India are 'severely acute malnourished', with the most in Uttar Pradesh followed by Bihar, according to government data, underscoring concerns that the Covid pandemic could exacerbate the health and nutrition crisis among...
