by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 30, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: India in a span of 24 hours dropped below 40,000 for the seventh time this month, taking the infection tally to 94.31 lakh, while the recoveries surged to 88,47,600, according to the Union Health Ministry''s data updated on Monday. The total...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 30, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
Moderna Inc. said it would ask U.S. and European regulators Monday to allow emergency use of its COVID-19 vaccine as new study results confirm the shots offer strong protection — ramping up the race to begin limited vaccinations as the coronavirus rampage...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 30, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Monday said that the Central government a plan to provide coronavirus vaccines to around 25-30 crore people by July-August next year. "In the first 3-4 months of next year, there is a possibility that we...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 30, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Life
THE HAGUE, Netherlands: Netherlands based Aegon has agreed to sell its insurance, pension and asset management business in Hungary, Poland, Romania and Turkey for EUR 830 million to Vienna Insurance Group AG Wiener Versicherung Gruppe (VIG). “This...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 30, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life
Paris: AXA announced on Monday that it has entered into an agreement with Gulf Insurance Group (“GIG”) to sell its insurance operations in the Gulf region, which includes its shareholding* in AXA Gulf, AXA Cooperative Insurance Company and AXA Green...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 30, 2020 | Articles, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
By Christopher Jasper William Wilkes In cooled warehouses on the fringes of Frankfurt airport, Deutsche Lufthansa AG is preparing its depleted fleet for the gargantuan task of airlifting millions of doses of the vaccines meant to end the global pandemic. Lufthansa,...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 29, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Risk Management, Technology
New Delhi, A hacker is selling passwords for the Microsoft email accounts of hundreds of top-level executives including CEOs, CFOs and CMOs on the Dark Web for nearly $100-$1,500 (nearly Rs 7,400-Rs 1.1 lakh) per account. According to a report in ZDNet late on...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 29, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
Battling global adversity over the coronavirus and bracing for a WHO inquiry over its origin, China on Friday claimed that just because COVID-19 cases were first reported in Wuhan does not mean the contagion originated from the central Chinese city. Various outlets of...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 29, 2020 | Indian News, Non-Life, Policy
New Delhi: The finance ministry has asked public sector general insurance firms, especially National Insurance, Oriental Insurance and United India Insurance, to rationalise branches and cut down avoidable expenses to improve their financial health,...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 29, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: The Drugs Controller General of India and the institutional ethics committee at the implementation site are investigating if the adverse event as claimed to have been suffered by a COVID-19 vaccine trial participant in Chennai are related to the shot...