by AIP Online Bureau | May 26, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
New rules governing social media companies in India will make it hard for the firms to operate and give authorities the power to censor internet users, campaigners warned after WhatsApp filed a suit against the Indian government. WhatsApp, a unit of Facebook,...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 26, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
Soon after the battle for Covid-19 is over, recovered patients are falling prey to mucormycosis in huge numbers, which leads to fungal infection. The Centre declared it as a notifiable disease while 11 states have already declared it as an epidemic. Owing to...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 26, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
Tasha Clark tested positive for Covid-19 on April 8, 2020. The Connecticut woman, now 41, was relieved that her symptoms at the time — diarrhea, sore throat and body aches — didn’t seem particularly severe. She never got a fever and wasn’t...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 26, 2021 | Facts, Health, Pandemic
Excessive use of the world’s most potent antibiotics has stoked drug-resistant infections in India for years. Now the country’s Covid crisis has put the calamity into hyperdrive. A first look at how many patients hospitalized during India’s first...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 26, 2021 | International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
PEMBROKE, Bermuda: Sompo International Holdings, a Bermuda-based specialty provider of property and casualty insurance and reinsurance, announced that after eight years with the company and over five decades of unparalleled success in the industry,...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 25, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: India on Wednesday reported 2,08,921 COVID-19 infections, pushing the overall tally of cases to 2,71,57,795, as the country conducted 22,17,320 coronavirus tests, its highest-ever in a day, according to Union Health Ministry data. The death toll also...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 25, 2021 | Indian News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
Bahrain based Trust International Insurance and Reinsurance Company B.S.C. (c) “Trust Re” announced the appointment of Yassir Albaharna as Managing Director and Group Chief Executive Officer. With a renowned international profile and wide marketing...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 25, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance, Risk Management
London: Africa Specialty Risks (ASR), the pan-African focused reinsurance group, is today pleased to announce the launch of its parametric division, alongside the appointment of Dr Raveem Ismail as Head of Parametric Underwriting and Ian Bishop as Parametric...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 25, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
A powerful cyclone destroyed tens of thousands of mud houses in eastern India on Wednesday, forcing the closure of the busiest regional airport in Kolkata, as it brought storm surges to coastal areas, the second such event within a week. Cyclone Yaas was...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 25, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Policy, Regulation, Risk Management, Technology
New Delhi: WhatsApp has filed a legal complaint in Delhi against the Indian government seeking to block regulations coming into force on Wednesday that experts say would compel the California-based Facebook unit to break privacy protections, sources said. The...
