by AIP Online Bureau | May 17, 2021 | Banking & Bancassurance, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
New Delhi: In a bid to ensure timely support to depositors of stressed banks, the government may bring amendment to DICGC Act in the monsoon session with the objective to provide account holders easy and time-bound access to funds to the extent of the deposit...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 16, 2021 | Health, International News, Non-Life
SAN FRANCISCO: A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a $25 million award against agribusiness giant Monsanto Co. in a lawsuit that alleged a California man developed cancer from exposure to its best-selling weed killer, Roundup. In a 2-1 ruling, a panel of the U.S....
by AIP Online Bureau | May 16, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) on Saturday asserted that no one should be denied vaccine, medicine, hospitalisation or treatment just because they do not have an Aadhaar. The UIDAI made it clear that Aadhaar should not be misused as an excuse for...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 16, 2021 | Facts, Technology, Workplace/Employee Benefits
Microsoft Corp.’s directors started a probe into Bill Gates’s alleged involvement with a female employee that was deemed inappropriate and decided that the co-founder had to step down from the board last year, Dow Jones reported, citing people...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 16, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
New Delhi: The first batch of the 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG) drug developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for treatment of Covid-19 will be released by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday. Rajnath Singh's office...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 16, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
RIO DE JANEIRO: Fretting over a fever in her toddler that wouldn’t break, the mother took the young girl, Letícia, to a hospital. Doctors had worrisome news: It was COVID-19. But they were reassuring, noting that children almost never develop serious...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 16, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
Gale-force winds, heavy rainfall and high tidal waves swept the coastal belt of Kerala, Karnataka and Goa as Cyclone Tauktae hurtled northwards towards Gujarat on Sunday, leaving four people dead, damaging hundreds of houses, uprooting electricity poles and trees and...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 16, 2021 | Uncategorized
Pope Francis said on Friday the cost of raising children was too high and that parents needed more help if countries such as Italy were to overcome the low birth rates that were undermining their future. Speaking at a conference on Italy's dearth of babies,...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 16, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: The Indian hotel industry has taken a hit of over Rs 1.30 lakh crore in revenue for the fiscal year 2020-21 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federation of Hotel & Restaurant Associations of India (FHRAI) said on Sunday. The apex...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 16, 2021 | Indian News, Non-Life
New Delhi: Lufthansa said it will operate its 10 weekly flights between India and Germany via Bahrain instead of Dubai from Sunday due to recent restrictions imposed by the UAE government to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. The German airline said in a...
