by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 28, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Life, Non-Life, Technology
London, Apr 28: As fundraising activity in the global InsurTech sector continues to rebound from its brief COVID-19 related slowdown a year ago, global investment in the sector reached a new quarterly high of US$2.55 billion during the first quarter of 2021....
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 28, 2021 | Health, Indian News, Non-Life
Mumbai: Four patients died after a fire broke out at a private hospital near Thane in Maharashtra in the wee hours of Wednesday, a civic official said. The patients died while being shifted to other hospitals after the blaze and not due to burns, the official said....
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 28, 2021 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
An earthquake of magnitude 6.0 struck India's northeastern state of Assam on Wednesday, damaging some buildings, residents said. State authorities said they were checking for any casualties. The United States Geological Survey said the quake hit at a depth of 34...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 28, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Life, Non-Life, Pandemic
Credit rating agency S&P Global said on Wednesday the second wave of COVID-19 infections in India could impede the country's economic recovery and expose other nations to further waves of outbreaks. "In addition to the substantial loss of life and...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 28, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Regulation, Risk Management, Technology
Russia said it had fined Apple $12 million for alleged abuse of its dominance in the mobile applications market, in the latest dispute between Moscow and a Western technology firm. The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) said on Tuesday that U.S. tech giant...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 28, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Pandemic
New Delhi: The Indian economy is projected to grow at 11 per cent in the current financial year amid the ''strong'' vaccine drive, said ADB on Wednesday, while cautioning that the recent surge in COVID cases may put the country's economic...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 27, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Life, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: India saw a record single-day rise of 3,60,960 coronavirus cases, which pushed the total tally to 1,79,97,267, according to Union health ministry data updated on Wednesday. A further 3,293 deaths, the deadliest day so far, took the death toll...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 27, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
The French pharmaceutical company Sanofi will help manufacture the Moderna coronavirus vaccine beginning in September, joining other companies assisting with the production of one of the three vaccines now approved in the US. Under the agreement announced Monday,...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 27, 2021 | Uncategorized
A tanker carrying around one million barrels of bitumen mix was involved in a collision near the Chinese port city of Qingdao, spilling oil into the Yellow Sea, Chinese maritime officials and tanker representatives said on Tuesday. The collision involving the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 27, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Policy, Regulation
London: Shortly after Britain left the European Union, finance minister Rishi Sunak pledged a series of measures he dubbed “Big Bang 2.0” to ensure the City of London remained one of the world’s top financial centres. Four months on, many...
