by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 10, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday has given its nod for amendments in the Insurance Act, paving way for 74 per cent foreign direct investment in the sector. Currently, the permissible FDI limit in the life and general insurance stands at 49 per cent with...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 10, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic, Policy, Regulation
Pfizer Inc has told the Indian government it wants to produce its coronavirus vaccine locally if assured of faster regulatory clearance and freedom on pricing and exports, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The U.S. company pulled an...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 10, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Regulation
New Delhi: International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) chairman Injeti Srinivas on Wednesday said the regulator will soon come up with Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPAC) regulatory framework to facilitate startups raise capital through...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 10, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts
Food system emissions were estimated at 18 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2015, or 34 per cent, though down from 44 per cent in 1990, indicating gradual decline even as these emissions kept increasing. The report was co-authored by...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 10, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Risk Management, Technology
San Francisco: At least five different hacking groups, including one from China, are currently attacking vulnerabilities in Microsoft's email servers — described by the US government as "widespread domestic and international exploitation"...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 10, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Risk Management, Technology
New Delhi, About 84 per cent of Indian consumers would pay more to do business with an organisation that is committed to protecting their data privacy, surpassing the UK (49 per cent), Germany (41 per cent), Spain (36 per cent) and France (17 per cent), said a...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 10, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: An intranasal vaccine candidate (BBV154), being developed by Bharat Biotech, is in early clinical stage of development in India, Minister of State for Health Ashwini Choubey told the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. Choubey was responding to a question on the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 10, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life
New Delhi: The Delhi government on Tuesday announced that special women mohalla clinics will be opened across the city in the next financial year to offer free gynaecological and other medical care services to them within walking distance from their homes....
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 10, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: India reported 17,921 new COVID-19 cases, 20,652 recoveries, and 133 deaths in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry informed on Wednesday. The cumulative cases in the country reached 1,12,62,707 including 1,84,598 active infections and 1,09,20,046...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 9, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
New Delhi: The Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS) claimed on Tuesday to have become the "only government institute" to perform more than 100 pediatric liver transplantations over a period of 10 years. The ILBS, which treats liver-related...
