by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 3, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life
New Delhi: Microsoft has warned its customers against a new sophisticated nation-state cyber attack that has its origin in China and is primarily targeting on-premises 'Exchange Server' software of the tech giant. Called "Hafnium," it operates...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 3, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
New Delhi: Climate change will increase the frequency of flash droughts in India in the future, which will have a negative impact on crop production, irrigation demands, and groundwater abstraction, says a study by researchers at Indian Institute of Technology...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 3, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: As many as 14,989 new COVID-19 cases and 98 deaths were reported from India in the last 24 hours, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare informed on Wednesday. With 13,123 fresh recoveries, the cumulative discharges reached 1,08,12,044. The...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 3, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: The Centre on Tuesday permitted all private hospitals to give COVID vaccine if they adhere to the laid down norms and also asked the states and union territories to utilise the optimum capacity of private medical facilities empanelled under three...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 3, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
TOKYO: Tepco, the operator of Japan’s wrecked Fukushima atomic plant, said it had successfully removed spent uranium fuel from a damaged reactor building in a key step in its clean up of the site after a nuclear disaster a decade ago. Formally known as Tokyo...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 3, 2021 | Banking & Bancassurance, Indian News, Life, Non-Life
Mumbai: India's central bank wants banks to limit ownership stakes in capital intensive insurance companies at a maximum 20%, less than half of what the current regulations permit, three sources with knowledge of the discussions told Reuters. Reserve Bank of India...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 3, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
LONDON: The Pfizer and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines for Covid-19 are highly effective in reducing severe coronavirus infection among people aged 70 years and above, according to a study. The research, posted as a pre-print and yet to be peer-reviewed, estimated the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 3, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Pandemic
A senior World Health Organisation official has said it was "premature" and "unrealistic" to think the pandemic might be stopped by the end of the year, but that the recent arrival of effective vaccines could at least help dramatically...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 3, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
Mumbai: An increase in extreme weather events such as floods, droughts and cyclones risk souring debt worth more than Rs 6.19 trillion ($84 billion) at India’s biggest financial institutions. That’s according to leading nonprofit environmental...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 2, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: India's present overall COVID-19 case positivity rate of 5.11 per cent suggests the pandemic is close to being under control, the Union Health Ministry said on Tuesday. Addressing a weekly press conference, Union Health Secretary Rajesh...
