by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 23, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: Amid the recent spike in COVID-19 cases, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Tuesday issued new guidelines for effective control of the disease. The guidelines will be effective from April 1 to 30. "The main focus of the guidelines is to...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 23, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
New Delhi: The total number of cases with the UK, South Africa and Brazil variants of SARS-CoV-2 in the country has reached 795, the Union Health Ministry said on Tuesday as India is witnessing a surge in COVID-19 cases. From 400 cases reported on March 18, the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 23, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Pandemic
AstraZeneca's release Monday of encouraging data about its coronavirus vaccine from its US trial raised hopes that the drug company could bury doubts about the shot and put a troubled rollout behind it. But hours later, US officials issued an unusual...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 23, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
NEW DELHI: India said on Tuesday everybody above 45 years will be eligible for coronavirus vaccination from April 1, in an expansion of its programme. Information minister Prakash Javadekar said the country had enough vaccine doses available. At present, only...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 23, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
Mumbai: A surge in coronavirus cases in India could hurt the economy’s recovery from a rare recession, as curbs to avoid a new wave creates delays in putting millions who lost their jobs to the pandemic back to work. A surge in coronavirus cases in India...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 23, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: India reported 40,715 new COVID-19 cases, 29,785 recoveries, and 199 deaths in the last 24 hours, as per the Union Health Ministry on Tuesday. With this, the total cases mounted to 1,16,86,796 including 3,45,377 active cases and 1,11,81,253 total...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
Zurich: Movinx, the 50/50 joint venture between Daimler Insurance Services and Swiss Re, today announced that Carolin Gabor will take on as its CEO , based in Berlin, from Apr 1. The joint venture aims to transform and innovate automotive and mobility insurance....
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 23, 2021 | Articles, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Pandemic
Women have suffered the worst impacts of COVID not only on the frontlines of healthcare but also through the loss of jobs as the informal economy shrinks; an alarming spike in domestic violence; and the unpaid care burden that threatens to push 47 million...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 23, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life, Technology
Mumbai: Skymet, an agri risk-monitoring company, has launched a digital platform ‘skAIgeo’ (Skymet’s new geospatial version) to provide its 10 years of geospatial proprietary farm-level data repository to the public free of cost. This digital...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 23, 2021 | Banking & Bancassurance, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Regulation
Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), on Monday, set up a five-member standing external advisory committee(SEAC), with former RBI deputy governor Shyamala Gopinath as the chairperson,to evaluate applications for universal banks and small finance banks (SFBs). The...
