by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 5, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
London: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday everyone in England will be able to take a Covid-19 test twice a week in a new drive to track the pandemic as society reopens and the vaccine rollout continues at its rapid rate. Johnson, who is expected to...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 5, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Monday requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to allow people above 25 years of age to receive COVID-19 shots, which he said will protect the young people from the rapid spread of coronavirus at a time when...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 5, 2021 | Indian News, Non-Life, Regulation, Reinsurance, Risk Management
Hyderabad: In a bid to check the rampant undercutting and jacking up of of premiums arbitrarily by the domestic general insurers to corner business through unhealthy competition, the insurance regulator IRDAI,on Monday, in its proposed General Insurance...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 5, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
New Delhi: Amid a surge in coronavirus cases, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will interact with chief ministers on Thursday to discuss the COVID-19 situation and the ongoing vaccination drive, sources said Monday. Modi's last interaction with chief ministers...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 5, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
Aizawl: More than 80 pigs died in south Mizoram's Lunglei district over the last two weeks, triggering panic in the area that is near the Bangladesh border, an official said on Sunday. The 87 deaths, which happened in the Lungsen village, have caused losses...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 5, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Risk Management, Technology
Mumbai: More than one in two organisations in India suffered unexpected downtime last year because of data loss, a new report showed on Monday. This was despite nearly 70 per cent of Indian companies investing in 10 cyber security solutions simultaneously. However,...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 5, 2021 | Indian News, Risk Management, Technology
Mumbai: With an aim to enhance the ERM ecosystem in the country, especially in the insurance and reinsurance broking sector, India Affiliate of Institute of Risk Management, the world’s leading professional body for Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), and...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 5, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
MumbaI: India reported more than one lakh daily coronavirus cases for the first time on Monday with cases surging during the second wave of the pandemic. According to Dr Subash Rao, Consultant Pediatrician at Reliance Hospital and Fortis Hospital, Navi Mumbai,...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 4, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
BENGALURU: India's Cadila Healthcare Ltd has sought approval from local regulators to use a Hepatitis C drug as a treatment for COVID-19 following promising interim results from a late-stage trial, the drugmaker said on Monday. A single dose of the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 4, 2021 | Indian News, Non-Life, Risk Management
Lucknow/Aligarh: Thirteen labourers were injured when scaffolding collapsed in Uttar Pradesh's Sonbhadra district in the early hours of Sunday, the company which had employed them for maintenance work said. In a letter addressed to the district magistrate and...