by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 12, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Pandemic
New Delhi: Delhi High Court expressed concern over rise in COVID-19 cases in the national capital and questioned the AAP government’s “doing everything under the Sun to ‘unlock’ things”. The Delhi High Court allowed the AAP...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 12, 2020 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life
Rome: Only 1.7 per cent of climate finance – a fraction of what is needed – goes to small-scale farmers in developing countries despite their disproportionate vulnerability to the impacts of climate change, according to a report released by...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 12, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
TOKYO: The number of suicides in Japan rose in October for the fourth month in a row to the highest level in more than five years, data showed on Tuesday, a trend activists have blamed on the economic impact of the coronavirus, on women in particular. According to...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 12, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Life, Regulation
Hyderabad: In a digital push, the insurance regulator IRDAI has allowed life Insurers to obtain the customer’s consent through electronic means i.e., without requiring wet signature on the proposal form,for the business solicited by individual Insurance...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 12, 2020 | Health, Indian News, Non-Life
New Delhi: Mortgage lender HDFC Ltd on Thursday said insurance regulator Irdai has given the final nod for merger of HDFC ERGO Health Insurance with HDFC ERGO General Insurance. In late September, the National Company Law Tribunal, Mumbai had okayed the scheme...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 12, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Pandemic
NEW DELHI: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday announced a new job creation scheme by giving subsidy to those establishments that make new hires. Addressing a press conference to announce more stimulus measures to boost growth, she said id the Indian...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 12, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
Washington: Self-reports of smell and taste changes can be earlier markers of the spread of the novel coronavirus than indicators based on hospital emergency room (ER) consultations, according to an international team of researchers.The team's study,...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 12, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
Insurance and reinsurance industry losses from wildfires across U.S. states, including California, Oregon and Colorado, were estimated to be more than $8 billion, according to a monthly report on global catastrophes by Aon Plc. Economic losses from the fires...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 12, 2020 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts
AIROBI: Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has issued a decree to save a much-loved century-old fig tree from being cut down to make way for a Chinese-funded highway in the capital Nairobi. The presidential decree described the tree, the height of a four-storey...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 12, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
BENGALURU: Serum Institute of India, the world's largest vaccine producer, said on Thursday it has made 40 million doses of AstraZeneca's AZN.L potential COVID-19 vaccine, and would soon begin making Novavax's rival shot, as they both seek regulatory...
