by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 22, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Risk Management
NEW DELHI, Dec 22: Toxic air killed more people in India in 2019 than in 2017, The Lancet said in a report shared by the government on Tuesday, with 1.67 million deaths accounting for 18% of all fatalities. India, whose cities top global pollution lists, faces a...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 22, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Life
New Delhi, Dec 22: Reliance Capital's (RCAP) expression of interest (EOI) for asset monetisation garnered mega response with 70 bids being received. SBI Life and Apollo are among the 10 new bidders who have submitted expressions of interest for...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 22, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Pandemic
GENEVA, Dec 22: The World Health Organization (WHO) will convene a meeting of members to discuss strategies to counter a new, more infectious coronavirus strain that emerged in Britain, its European chief said on Tuesday. He did not give a date for the meeting....
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 22, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
MUMBAI,Dec 22: Five people arriving in India from Britain have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, a government official said on Tuesday, but it was not clear if they had a highly infectious new strain of the virus. India has the second-highest number of...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 22, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life, Risk Management
AHMEDABAD, Dec 22: A blast at a gas pipeline in Gujarat killed one person and injured two others early on Tuesday, authorities said. It was not immediately clear who ran the pipeline – state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) denied media reports that it was...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 22, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
Dec 22: The developer of India’s leading indigenous coronavirus vaccine is already producing millions of doses of its yet-to-be-approved candidate, but the thought of supplying enough shots for half the country’s nearly 1.4 billion people can seem...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 22, 2020 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
Dec 22: On sweeping fields once blanketed in lush purple, a thin and bedraggled crop of flowers is all farmers in Indian-administered Kashmir's saffron-growing region Pampore have to show for this year's harvest. Dry conditions blamed on climate change...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 22, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Risk Management, Technology
It's going to take months to kick elite hackers widely believed to be Russian out of the US government networks they have been quietly rifling through since as far back as March in Washington's worst cyberespionage failure on record. Experts say there...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 22, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
Washington: Indian-American physician Vivek Murthy, US President-elect Joe Biden's pick for Surgeon General, has said there is no evidence to suggest that a new and more contagious coronavirus variant reported in the UK is any deadlier. Murthy, 43, said...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 22, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
Singapore: India's role in the global Covid-19 vaccine rollout will be significant both as a recipient of the medicine as well as a producer, according to Fitch Solutions Country Risk and Industry Research. The country has one of the largest vaccine manufacturing...
