by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 5, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic, Risk Management
CHICAGO: Chris Murray, a University of Washington disease expert whose projections on COVID-19 infections and deaths are closely followed worldwide, is changing his assumptions about the course of the pandemic. Murray had until recently been hopeful that the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 5, 2021 | International News, Non-Life
Milan: Allianz S.p.A. announced it has agreed to acquire Aviva Italia S.p.A., the Italian P/C entity of Aviva Group, from Aviva Italia Holding S.p.A. for 330 million euros. The portfolio is equally distributed between motor and non-motor business segments with...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 5, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: India administered 1.4 million vaccine doses in the past 24 hours, health ministry data showed on Friday, the highest in a day since the campaign began in mid-January as the government moves to address initial hiccups. The country of 1.35 billion...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 5, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
Shanghai: Despite a high-profile visit to China by a team of international experts in January, the world is no closer to knowing the origins of COVID-19, according to one of the authors of an open letter calling for a new investigation into the pandemic....
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 5, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Workplace/Employee Benefits
Mumbai: After giving men equal days of paternity leaves as maternity leaves, as part of its global policy, international asset management company Fidelity International has announced a ''family care leave'' policy for India under which it offers at...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 5, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic, Regulation, Risk Management
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday asked the Delhi government to examine measures in pending legislation for the regulation of online health service aggregators. While hearing a contempt plea against the Delhi government, ICMR, and others for not regulating...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 5, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts
New Delhi: : Day temperatures are likely to be above normal in the north, north-east, parts of east and west India, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Monday in its summer forecast for March to May. However, it has forecast a likelihood of...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 5, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
Sydney: An Australian court upheld a landmark class-action lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson for "negligent" marketing of pelvic mesh implants on Friday, paving the way for thousands of women to receive compensation in a costly setback for the US...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 5, 2021 | Banking & Bancassurance, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Life, Non-Life
Mumbai: Just State Bank of India, HDFC and ICICI Bank will have to offload equity worth Rs 1.21 lakh crore if the central bank goes ahead with its reported plan to make banks cap their stakes in insurance arms at 20 per cent, says a report by Kotak Securities . ....
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 4, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life, Risk Management, Technology
New Delhi: From online shopping to e-learning, the number of users online increased multi-fold in India and a new report revealed on Thursday that 45 per cent of online users in the country were attacked by local threats in 2020. Global cyber security firm Kaspersky...
