by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 12, 2020 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
LONDON: World leaders should declare states of “climate emergency” to spur faster cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Saturday at a summit marking the fifth anniversary of the Paris climate accord.Dozens of...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 12, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
London,Dec 12: Britain’s AstraZeneca has agreed to buy U.S. drugmaker Alexion Pharmaceuticals for $39 billion in cash and shares to bolster its positions in immunology and rare diseases. AstraZeneca, one of the frontrunners in the drugs industry’s...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 12, 2020 | Articles, Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
By Tracy Alloway and Tasos Vossos In late January 2015, just after the deadliest outbreak of Ebola in history, then-World Bank President Jim Yong Kim stood in front of a group of Georgetown University students and professors to introduce a new approach to...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 12, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Life, Non-Life, Reinsurance
Insurers pummeled by the pandemic are looking to deals as they race to see who’ll emerge strongest when the outbreak subsides. The takeover of RSA Insurance Group Plc and Allstate Corp.’s largest acquisition ever have helped push industry deals...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 12, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Risk Management, Technology
LONDON: Fraud risk analyst Rajendran Raj was used to the odd out-of-hours alert from authorities, but a call one Saturday in March heralded a new era, of tackling criminals seeking to cash in on coronavirus. A French drugs firm had contacted Singapore police to report...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 12, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
LONDON A record rebound in merger activity this year and a rise in litigation has brought with it an upsurge in insurance policies that give companies and private equity firms cover for when a deal goes wrong, industry officials say. Keen for revenue after a year...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 12, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life
New Delhi: Airlines have refunded Rs 3,200 crore to 74.3 per cent of passengers who had their flights cancelled due to the coronavirus-triggered lockdown earlier this year, the Ministry of Civil Aviation said on Friday. The Supreme Court had on October 1 said that a...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 11, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
NEW DELHI, Dec 12: India will deploy its vast election machinery to deliver 600 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to the most vulnerable people in the next six to eight months through conventional cold chain systems, the expert leading the initiative said on...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 11, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it authorized the use of Pfizer Inc’s COVID-19 vaccine on Friday, with the first inoculations expected within days, marking a turning point in the United States where the pandemic has killed more than 295,000 people....
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 11, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
Study details first artificial intelligence tool to help labs rule-out Covid-19 Washington: A recent study conducted with collaborators from the University of Vermont and Cedars-Sinai describes the performance of Biocogniv's new AI-Covid software. The team...
