by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 19, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
Mumbai: A day after Maharashtra witnessed the highest one-day spike of 25,833 COVID-19 cases, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday said lockdown is an option but he trusts people to follow the norms on their own. Talking to reporters in Nandurbar,...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 19, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
New Delhi: The Centre Friday urged the Delhi High Court to restrain Facebook-owned WhatsApp from implementing its new privacy policy and terms of service which are to take effect from May 15. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology made the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 19, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Friday said the Covid-19 vaccination drive will be extended in the coming days and asserted that there should not be any misconceptions about the two Indian vaccines being administered in the country. During the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 19, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts
BERLIN: The scientist who won the race to deliver the first widely used coronavirus vaccine says people can rest assured the shots are safe, and the technology behind it will soon be used to fight another global scourge — cancer. Ozlem Tureci, who...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 19, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
New Delhi: More than two crore children in India are experiencing extremely high water vulnerability, according to an analysis by UNICEF. Extreme water vulnerability is the combination of the highest levels of physical water scarcity risks and lowest levels of...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 19, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
Rome: At no other point in history have agri-food systems faced more hazards such as megafires, extreme weather, unusually large desert locust swarms, and emerging biological threats, as during the past year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nor have they been seen at...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 19, 2021 | Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic, Reinsurance
Monte Carlo: In view of the prevailing Covid-19 Pandemic, the members of the RVS(Rendez-Vous de Septembre (RVS)) Association, like last year, have decided to cancel the “Monte Carlo Reinsurance Rendez-Vous de...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 19, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Technology
New Delhi: India is facing a ''challenge of high fossil fuel consumption'', a senior official said on Thursday, stressing the need for adopting non-polluting electric vehicles to contribute to energy goals. Climate change is a growing challenge...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 19, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
LONDON: Britain expects to seal a financial services cooperation pact with the European Union shortly, a senior finance ministry official told a conference on challenges from market fragmentation. The City of London’s ties with the bloc were severed after...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 19, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Intermediaries, International News, Technology
Amazon.com Inc is expanding its virtual healthcare service to other Washington state employers starting on Wednesday and to its own employees and other businesses nationwide this summer, the company said in a news release. Piloted in September 2019 for staff...
