by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 18, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Risk Management, Technology
Paris: French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday unveiled a plan to better arm public facilities and private companies against cybercriminals following ransomware attacks at two hospitals this month and an upsurge of similar cyber assaults in France. The attacks at...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 18, 2021 | Disaster & Management, Health, Indian News
New Delhi: With cumulative vaccination coverage to healthcare workers and frontline workers against COVID-19 in the country crossing 94 lakhs, India has become the third topmost country globally with the highest cumulative vaccination numbers, after USA and the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 18, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Workplace/Employee Benefits
New Delhi: Stressing on the importance of accurate data for policy making, Labour Minister Santosh Gangwar on Thursday launched software applications for five pan-India surveys, including on migrant and domestic workers. The minister also released instruction manuals...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 18, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Pension & Social Security, Risk Management, Technology, Workplace/Employee Benefits
Uber on Monday called on EU regulators to recognize the value of independent contracts in job creation as they consider new rules to protect gig economy workers. The company has been criticized for classifying its drivers as independent contractors rather than...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 18, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Workplace/Employee Benefits
The Spanish government is preparing strict labor law changes that could mean food-delivery platforms have to formally employ the couriers they rely on. Under rules expected to be proposed as soon as this week, companies such as Uber Eats, Deliveroo and...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 18, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Intermediaries, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance, Risk Management
Australian regulator raises antitrust doubts over Aon's $30-billion Willis Towers bid- Australia’s competition regulator on Thursday raised initial concerns over Aon’s $30 billion bid for Willis Towers Watson to create the world’s largest...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 18, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Risk Management
The UK highlighted increasing political risks in its latest guidance on conducting business in Hong Kong, pointedly dropping references to relations with its former colony as “positive” and “beneficial.” The UK government updated its...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 18, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
London: Britain became the first country in the world on Wednesday to give the go-ahead for human challenge trials in which volunteers will be deliberately exposed to Covid-19 to advance research. The trial, due to start within a month, will see up to 90 healthy...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 18, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
Mumbai: Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the Mumbai civic body has caught over 15 lakh people without face masks at public places in the city since April last year and collected more than Rs 30 crore as fine from them, officials said on Wednesday. Out of these offenders,...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 18, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic, Risk Management
New Delhi: Amid cases of new variants of mutated SARS-CoV-2 emerging in India, it has become important to understand how the symptoms of different new variants vary from the original one. According to new studies, the UK variant or the Kent variant — B.1.1.7...
