by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 30, 2021 | Articles, Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Non-Life, Reinsurance
Zurich: Global insured losses out of natural catastrophes in 2020 were USD 89 billion, making it the fifth-costliest year on sigma records since 1970. According to Swiss Re's Sigma report, released on Tuesday, natural catastrophes in 2020 caused global...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 30, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
Ottwa: Canada's National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) has recommended that the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine should not be used in adults under 55 years of age at this time, while rare cases of serious blood clots were being further probed. In a...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 30, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: Six states, including Maharashtra, Punjab, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh, have reported a high number of daily COVID-19 cases and account for 78.56 per cent of the 56,211 fresh cases recorded in the country in a day, the Union Health Ministry said on...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 30, 2021 | Indian News, Pension & Social Security
New Delhi: Officers, employees and retired staff of Nabard on Tuesday went on a one-day strike seeking pension updation that has been pending for two decades. National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) is the apex agri-finance institution set up by...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 30, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
SHRI DUNGARGARH/SATARA: Asli Bai Sayat, 72, had to travel for two hours on a camel cart to get her first coronavirus vaccine shot in the Indian desert state of Rajasthan but she may not have to go so far for the follow-up dose.After a slow start, India is...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 30, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance, Risk Management
LONDON: The owners and charterers of ships unable to sail through the the Suez Canal for nearly a week face at least $24 million in expenses they will be unable to recoup as their insurance policies do not cover them, industry sources say.Up to 400 ships, which...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 29, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance, Risk Management
Adventurers in what is perhaps the most lucrative and risky corner of the cryptocurrency world are starting to see a bit of a safety net. In the past year, scores of investors big and small have poured billions into decentralized-finance applications that allow...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 29, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Regulation
LONDON : Britain and the European Union agreed a new post-Brexit financial services pact on Friday that will allow them to co-operate on regulation but does little to improve the City of London’s access to the bloc.Britain’s finance ministry said...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 29, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health
New Delhi: Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Sunday contended that it was now the right time to change strategy and introduce wellbeing into domains of learning and mainstream subjects for children. In his address at the Harvard Social Enterprise...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 29, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
Warsaw: The world should be back to normal by the end of 2022 thanks to Covid-19 vaccines, Bill Gates said in an interview for Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza and television broadcaster TVN24. "This is an incredible tragedy," the Microsoft co-founder...
