by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 18, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Life, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: India reported its highest-ever single-day spike of COVID-19 cases with over 2.61 lakh new cases and more than 1,500 deaths in the last 24 hours, according to the Union Health Ministry on Sunday. In the last 24 hours, 1,501 COVID-related deaths were...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 17, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Risk Management, Technology
The European Union is poised to ban artificial intelligence (AI) systems used for mass surveillance or for ranking social behavior, while companies developing AI could face fines as high as 4% of global revenue if they fail to comply with new rules governing the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 17, 2021 | Indian News, Non-Life
Mumbai, Apr17: ICICI Lombard General Insurance, the largest private sector general insurance company in the country, at Rs 346 crore, has recorded a 22.6 per cent year-on- year growth in its net profit in Q4 FY2021. The net profit of the company grew...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 17, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Risk Management
A defunct satellite spent early April hurtling through space toward the body of an old rocket, threatening a collision that the European Union’s Space Surveillance and Tracking Consortium estimated could generate more than 4 million pieces of debris. In...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 17, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Risk Management, Technology
The White House said in a statement on Thursday that Russia’s foreign intelligence service, known as the SVR, was responsible for the (SWI.N) SolarWinds hack, which led to the compromise of nine federal agencies and hundreds of private sector companies....
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 17, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life
LONDON: Environmental scientist Laura Garcia Velez cut her teeth on projects to help Ethiopian farmers insure crops for drought and connect remote Colombian communities to the electricity grid before working for conservation campaigners WWF. Now she’s an...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
London: Over 400 financial firms in Britain have shifted activities, staff and a combined trillion pounds ($1.4 trillion) in assets to hubs in the European Union due to Brexit, with more pain to come, a study from New Financial think tank said on Friday....
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 17, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Life, Non-Life
The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 139.6 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.99 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Saturday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 17, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Life, Non-Life, Pandemic
Bhuma Shrivastava Corinne Gretler & Bibhudatta Pradhan As India’s daily tally of Covid-19 infections surged by a record 200,000-plus cases on two consecutive days, public health experts worry that a new — possibly more virulent —...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 17, 2021 | Articles, Eco/Invest/Demography
Karan Deep Singh and Hari Kumar Ashish Anand had dreams of becoming a fashion designer. A former flight attendant, he borrowed from relatives and poured his $5,000 life savings into opening a clothing shop on the outskirts of Delhi selling custom-designed...