by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 1, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health
SINGAPORE: Singapore has given U.S. start-up Eat Just the greenlight to sell its lab-grown chicken meat, in what the firm says is the world’s first regulatory approval for so-called clean meat that does not come from slaughtered animals. Demand for alternatives...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 1, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Reinsurance
Munich: Munich Re is aiming for a profit of €2.8bn in 2021. The group expects financial consequences from COVID-19 next year as well, but on a considerably smaller scale than in 2020. In reinsurance, burdens will arise from COVID-19 claims of approximately...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 1, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Pandemic
New Delhi: Indian businesses expect a quicker return to pre-COVID levels of profitability than most others, and are positive about international trade despite the ongoing protectionism, says a survey. According to HSBC's annual Navigator survey, which...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 1, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
New Delhi, Dec 1 There was never any talk of inoculating the whole population of the country with COVID-19 vaccine, the Centre said on Tuesday said. Responding to a question at a press briefing, ICMR Director General Balram Bhargava said the purpose of the COVID...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 1, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
Pfizer Inc with partner BioNTech SE, Moderna Inc and AstraZeneca Plc have released trial data this month showing their experimental vaccines are effective in preventing the disease. If regulators approve any of the vaccines in coming weeks, the companies...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 1, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Technology
London,Dec 1 Scientists have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) model that could help treat cancer more effectively by identifying the best drug combinations to selectively kill cancer cells with specific genetic or functional makeup. The new machine...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 1, 2020 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
WASHINGTON, Dec 01 President-elect Joe Biden’s promise to end U.S. fossil fuel subsidies worth billions of dollars a year for drillers and miners could be hard to keep due to resistance from lawmakers in a narrowly divided Congress, including from within...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 1, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
LISBON/ROME: “It’s time to become a mum,” was the push-notification hundreds of Portuguese women received on their cell phones last month.The text, sent by a private hospital in Lisbon trying to drum up clients for its maternity unit, caused outrage...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 1, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News
United Nations, Dec 01 India made impressive gains in the global fight against malaria, recording the largest reduction in cases in South-East Asia from 20 million in 2000 to about 5.6 million last year, according to the World Health Organisation. The World Malaria...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 1, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic, Policy
New Delhi, Dec 01 The Supreme Court Thursday said that once posters are pasted outside the homes of COVID-19 patients, these people are treated as "untouchables", reflecting a different "ground reality". The Centre informed the apex court...
