by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 21, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Risk Management
New Delhi: India is losing over USD 10.3 billion (about Rs 75,000 crore) in taxes every year owing to global tax abuse by MNCs and evasion by private individuals, a report said on Friday. The State of Tax Justice report said globally countries are losing a total of...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 21, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday held a meeting to review India's Covid-19 vaccination strategy in which issues like prioritisation of population groups, including health and other frontline workers, and tech platform for rolling out the vaccine...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 21, 2020 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
BRUSSELS/LONDON: The European Commission on Friday proposed that power plants fuelled by natural gas would not be not classed as a sustainable investment in Europe, although plants could possibly gain a green label by burning some hydrogen. The landmark EU rules, due...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 21, 2020 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life
SHANGHAI: China’s long-awaited nationwide emissions trading scheme (ETS) will cover a total of 2,267 power plants in its first phase, according to government consultation papers. Coal- and gas-fired power plants with annual carbon dioxide emissions of at least...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 21, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
ZURICH: Swiss doctors have urged those vulnerable to COVID-19 complications to record their wishes for end-of-life care in advance to help ease pressure on intensive care units, drawing criticism from an advocacy group. Pro Senectute Schweiz, an organisation for the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 21, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
Washington: An Indian-American scientist has discovered a potential strategy to prevent life-threatening inflammation, lung damage and organ failure in patients diagnosed with COVID-19. Published online in the journal Cell, the research coming from the lab of...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 21, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
New Delhi: India's COVID-19 caseload rose to 90.50 lakh, while the number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to over 84.78 lakh pushing the national recovery rate to 93.67 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry data on Saturday....
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 21, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Risk Management, Technology
New Delhi: Facebook awarded over $1.98 million to researchers from more than 50 countries this year for reporting bugs on its platforms and the biggest bug bounty of $80,000 was given for identifying a low impact issue in its Content Delivery Network (CDN). The...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 20, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Policy, Regulation, Risk Management, Technology
Bengaluru: Union IT and Communications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the government was very keen to promote India as a very big centre of the data economy and would finalise a data protection law very soon. "I'm very keen to promote India as a very big...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 20, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Technology
New Delhi: Of the 21.7 billion active connected devices worldwide, more than 11.7 billion (54 per cent) will be Internet of Things (IoT) device connections at the end of this year — a first for the industry, a new report said on Friday. Despite the ongoing...
