by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 27, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
London: The British government on Friday said it has formally asked the country's medicines regulator to assess whether a coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University should be authorised for use. The step comes amid questions about...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 27, 2020 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that his country is India's partner in its quest for a future with low carbon and pollution levels, and exuded confidence that solar energy would constitute over 25 per cent of his country's...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 27, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
MOSCOW: Indian pharmaceutical company Hetero will manufacture over 100 million doses of the Russian Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine per year under the terms of a deal unveiled on Friday between it and Russia’s RDIF sovereign wealth fund. The move, which RDIF cast as...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 27, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
AHMEDABAD: Five patients were killed in India on Friday in a fire that broke out in a COVID-19 ward, the fourth blaze in a novel coronavirus hospital since the outbreak began, which drew angry questions from the Supreme Court. The early morning blaze in Rajkot city in...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 27, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
NEW DELHI: Wearing a yellow turban and white overalls, Jitender Singh Shunty and three of his coworkers carefully pulled the body of a 57-year-old COVID-19 victim out of his bedroom in a house in New Delhi’s west and onto an ambulance waiting downstairs....
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 27, 2020 | Banking & Bancassurance, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
New Delhi: Tamil Nadu-based Lakshmi Vilas Bank (LVB) with pre-independence lineage on Friday lost its identity after its merger with the Indian subsidiary of Singapore''s DBS Bank. The debt-ridden 94-year old old bank''s fate was sealed...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 27, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
New Delhi: The Union government's fiscal deficit further widened to Rs 9.53 lakh crore, which is nearly 120 per cent of the annual budget estimate, at the end of October of the current financial year, according to official data released on Friday. The...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 27, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
NEW DELHI: The Indian economy shrank for the second straight quarter through September, although it showed signs of a pick-up after the easing of pandemic restrictions that triggered a record contraction in the previous quarter.India’s gross domestic...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 27, 2020 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
New Delhi: Thousands of families who live near a smouldering waste landfill in a northern corner of India’s capital have boarded up their doors and windows because they say the air outside is so toxic that they would be coughing all day. New Delhi has the worst...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 27, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
New Delhi: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday he expects the energy-hungry country's burgeoning renewable energy sector to require an annual investment of $20 billion a year. "Demand for energy in India will keep growing. There are huge...
