by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 3, 2021 | Banking & Bancassurance, Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Risk Management
Mumbai: HDFC Bank today announced plans to become carbon neutral by 2031-32. As part of this initiative, the Bank is looking at reducing its emissions, energy, and water consumption. The Bank will continue to incorporate and scale up the use of renewable energy in its...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 3, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Technology
New Delhi: The number of active internet users in the country is likely to grow nearly 45 per cent to 900 million by 2025 compared to 622 million as of last year, an IAMAI-Kantar Cube report released on Thursday said. According to the report, rural India may...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 3, 2021 | Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
Mumbai: The general insurers have asked the hospitals to comply with a few conditions in terms paperworks so that Covid-19 insurance claims or approvals for cashless treatment can be done speedily. Earlier, the Delhi High Court had directed the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 3, 2021 | Intermediaries, International News, Life, Non-Life, Pension & Social Security, Policy, Regulation, Reinsurance, Technology
Dublin: Aon plc, a leading global professional services firm providing a broad range of risk, retirement and health solutions, today announced the firm has signed definitive agreements to sell its U.S. retirement business to Aquiline and its Aon Retiree Health...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 3, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Life, Non-Life, Pandemic
Mumbai: Chief Economic Advisor KV Subramanian on Thursday said that the second wave of COVID-19 has affected the momentum of economic recovery. However, he also pointed that he expects a recovery in the economy from July onwards. "The second wave of...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 3, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
The appeal to the continent’s authorities to boost lifesaving facilities comes as the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that vaccine shipments were at “a near halt”.“The threat of a third wave in Africa is real and rising”,...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 3, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: A total of 624 doctors have died due to COVID-19 in the ongoing second wave with Delhi recording the maximum 109 fatalities, the Indian Medical Association's (IMA) has said. According to the IMA, 748 doctors died in the first wave of the pandemic. Delhi...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 3, 2021 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
Mumbai: The Raigad district administration has so far distributed over Rs 348 crore to people affected by cyclone Nisarga which hit coastal parts of Maharashtra on June 3 last year, officials said on Thursday. As many as 40,244 people were provided clothes, utensils...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 3, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Life, Policy
New Delhi: The mega initial public offering (IPO) of the state owned Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) will now be pushed towards end of the current fiscal, said government sources. Earlier, it was expected that the LIC IPO of to be launched durimng Diwali or...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 3, 2021 | Banking & Bancassurance, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
NEW DELHI: Government think tank Niti Aayog has submitted to the Core Group of Secretaries on Disinvestment the finalised two names of PSU banks, to be privatised in the current fiscal as part of the disinvestment process, a senior government official said....
