by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 13, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Risk Management, Technology
Ransom-seeking hackers have begun taking advantage of a recently disclosed flaw in Microsoft's widely used mail server software, the company said early Thursday – a serious escalation that could portend widespread digital disruption. The disclosure,...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 13, 2021 | Articles, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Pension & Social Security
Aashish Chandorkar In the futurist law now named after him, the late Stanford University computer scientist Roy Amara once declared, “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.”...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 13, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health
AstraZeneca on Friday defended its vaccine saying that there was "no evidence of an increased risk" of blood clots, and European and UK medicines regulators have each said the link between the vaccine and blood clots has not been confirmed and that...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 13, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Pension & Social Security
Mumbai: The Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) is working on plans to introduce innovative retirement benefit products, such as one providing minimum assured return, to attract more subscribers, its Chairman Supratim Bandyopadhyay said....
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 13, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: As many as 24,882 new COVID-19 cases and 19,957 recoveries were reported in India in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry informed on Saturday. With the addition of fresh infections, the total number positive cases in the country reached...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 12, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts
More twins are being born now than ever before, largely due to rising use of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and other assisted reproduction techniques, the first global study of human twinning has found.With about 1.6 million twins born each year worldwide, the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 12, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health
New Delhi: Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan Friday inaugurated four pyres of the 'green crematoria' at the Nigam Bodh Ghat here to reduce high toxic emissions from there. The Ministry of Science & Technology said in a statement that the air pollution...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 12, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Policy, Regulation
New Dlhi, The government is in the process of developing a portal – Atmanirbhar Niveshak Mitra – for hand-holding, information dissemination and facilitation of domestic investors, the commerce and industry ministry said on Friday. The portal is in testing...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 12, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance, Risk Management
AXA SA, France’s biggest insurer, is dropping German energy giant RWE AG as a client in a decision that highlights how taboo the coal business has become. Not even an appeal from RWE Chief Executive Officer Rolf Martin Schmitz to his counterpart at AXA,...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 12, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life
New Delhi: Indian Council of Medical Research on Friday announced that India's indigenous neurosurgery simulator has been granted US Patent through the ICMR Patent Cell. Taking to Twitter, ICMR said that the neuro-endoscope-box-trainer has been developed jointly...
