by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 27, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden is set to reopen the nation's online health insurance marketplace as soon as this week, according to a planning document, offering Americans who cannot get coverage through their employers another way to obtain it. Biden has...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 27, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Risk Management
Nearly two-thirds of 1.2 million people polled worldwide say humanity faces a climate emergency, according to a UN survey, the largest of its kind ever undertaken. Young and old, rich and poor, respondents in 50 nations home to more than half the global...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 27, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Risk Management
LONDON: Air pollution is associated with an increased risk of progressive and irreversible sight loss, known as age-related macular degeneration (AMD), according to a long-term study that could pave the way for new treatment options for the disorder. The researchers,...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 27, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Risk Management
NEW DELHI: Over 139 million women and girls in India now use modern methods of contraception, according to a new report released on Tuesday. The report published by FP2020, a global partnership that supports the reproductive rights of women and girls, details...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 27, 2021 | Banking & Bancassurance, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Life
NEW DELHI: India’s government plans to announce the sale of a 10% to 15% stake in state-run Life Insurance Corp, the country’s biggest insurer, in next week’s federal budget, as part of a privatisation push to improve public finances, two...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 27, 2021 | International News, Life, Reinsurance, Technology
Singapore:: Munich Re Automation Solutions, the world leading provider of digital new business, underwriting and analytics solutions to the life insurance industry, has today launched a report laying out the next generation of automated underwriting. Augmented...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 27, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
SINGAPORE: COVID-19 vaccination programmes in China and India will stretch until late 2022 due to the sheer size of their population, and more than 85 poor countries will not have widespread access to vaccines before 2023, a study showed on Wednesday. While rapid...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 27, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: Most of the world is struggling to secure enough vaccines to inoculate their populations. India has the opposite problem: Plenty of shots, but a shortage of people willing to take them. As India rolls out one of the world’s biggest inoculation...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 27, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
New Delhi: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Wednesday allowed cinema halls and theatres to operate with more people while swimming pools have been permitted for use by all in fresh COVID-19 reopening guidelines. According to these new guidelines, to be...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 27, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Pandemic, Technology, Workplace/Employee Benefits
New Delhi: IT and Communications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad will launch virtual intelligence tool Tejas and 'Work from Anywhere' portal at an event on Thursday, according to an official release. The National Informatics Centre Services Inc (NICSI), a...
