by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 17, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Risk Management, Technology
New Delhi: India, with its proven software prowess, now needs to aggressively build strong hardware capabilities as well, given the crucial role that hardware technologies play in handling and management of data in digital age, chairperson of Parliamentary...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 17, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
MOSCOW: Russian authorities said on Saturday that flights between Moscow and the capitals of Finland, Vietnam, India and Qatar, suspended since the early weeks of the pandemic, would restart from Jan 27, after certain epidemiological criteria were met. A statement...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 17, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
New Delhi: India's COVID-19 caseload climbed to 1,05,57,985 on Sunday with 15,144 fresh infections while recoveries surged to 1,01,96,885, pushing the national recovery rate to 96.58 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The death toll increased...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 17, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
LONDON: A new potentially life-saving inhaler-based treatment that is hoped will protect Covid-19 patients from developing severe illness has begun a major trial at UK hospitals. It involves inhaling a protein called interferon beta-1a (SNG001), which the body...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 17, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic, Risk Management
Berlin: Specialists from Germany's Paul Ehrlich Institute are looking into the deaths of 10 people who passed away soon after having been inoculated against the novel coronavirus disease, Brigitte Keller-Stanislawski, the head of the institute's department of...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 16, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life
New Delhi: The much-awaited policy to scrap 15-year old vehicles is likely to get government nod soon, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Friday. On July 26, 2019, the government proposed amendments to motor vehicle norms to allow scrapping of vehicles older...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 16, 2021 | Facts, Health
Since becoming the first Southeast Asian country to legalise medical marijuana in 2018, Thailand has ploughed ahead on the extraction, distillation and marketing of cannabis oil — eager to capitalise on the multibillion-dollar industry. The plant itself was...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 16, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: One “severe” and 51 “minor” cases of AEFI (adverse events following immunisation) were reported among health workers who were administered the coronavirus vaccine in Delhi on the first day of the COVID-19 vaccination drive on...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 16, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Policy
New Delhi: The Election Commission will extend "full assistance" to the government in identifying targeted beneficiaries at the polling station level for the Covid-19 vaccination drive, but wants health authorities to delete the data once the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 16, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Risk Management, Technology
New Delhi: Over 22 billion records were exposed worldwide amid 730 publicly disclosed data breaches in 2020, a new report revealed on Friday. Thirty five percent of breaches were linked to ransomware attacks, resulting in tremendous financial cost, while 14 per cent...
