by AIP Online Bureau | May 30, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Pension & Social Security
New Delhi: The Ministry of Labour and Employment on Sunday announced additional benefits for workers through social securities schemes run by the EPFO and the ESIC amid the COVID-19 pandemic. These benefits include pension for dependents of insured persons with...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 30, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
New Delhi: The Centre has allocated Rs 5,117 crore to Madhya Pradesh under the Jal Jeevan Mission, a four-fold rise than last year, and released its first tranche of Rs 1,184 crore, the Jal Shakti ministry said on Saturday. Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 30, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Technology
New Delhi: Digital payments and financial services firm Paytm has received in-principle approval from the company's board to raise around Rs 22,000 crore through an initial public offer during the October-December quarter this year, according to an industry...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 30, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
Mumbai: Maharashtra ministers Abdul Sattar and Dada Bhuse held a review meeting of the Kharif season in Aurangabad on Sunday and announced that insurance companies would be probed to see if they are giving less amount as claim to farmers. Addressing a press meet,...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 30, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Risk Management, Technology
US troops charged with guarding nuclear weapons in Europe used popular education websites to create flashcards, exposing their exact locations and top-secret security protocols, according to the investigative site Bellingcat on Friday. To familiarize themselves with...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 30, 2021 | Articles, Eco/Invest/Demography, Non-Life
Andrew E. Kramer Michael Schwirtz & Anton Troianovski Just weeks before the ransomware gang known as DarkSide attacked the owner of a major American pipeline, disrupting gasoline and jet fuel deliveries up and down the East Coast of the United States,...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 30, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
Corporates are increasingly adopting technology-aided recruitment tools that can be leveraged remotely and can ensure hiring as well as business continuity amid disruptions, and the virtual model of recruitment is here to stay, according to experts. There was a...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 30, 2021 | Facts, Health
Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (also known as Ecole Polytechnique federale de Lausanne- EPFL) led a new study into the distinct biological effects of different progestins on the breast that found contraceptive-related breast cancer...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 30, 2021 | Banking & Bancassurance, Indian News
New Delhi: A number of petitions have been filed before the Supreme Court seeking to initiate contempt of court proceedings against Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor, Shaktikant Das, Chief Executive of Indian Banks Association (IBA) and others for allegedly...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 30, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
Zeynep Tufekci If world leaders don’t act now, the end of the Covid pandemic may come with a horrible form of herd immunity, as more transmissible variants that are taking hold around the world kill millions. There’s troubling new evidence...