by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 25, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: COVID-19 cases reported in India in a span of 24 hours remained below 55,000 for the third consecutive day, while new fatalities recorded in a day dropped to 578 after almost three months, according to the Union Health Ministry's data updated on Sunday....
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 25, 2020 | Indian News, Non-Life, Risk Management
Mumbai: Nearly 56 hours after a fire broke out at the City Centre Mall in Mumbai, it was doused by fire personnel early Sunday morning, an official said. This is probably one of the longest fire-fighting operations in the city in recent times. Earlier this...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 24, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
London: Antibodies against the novel coronavirus follow a classic pattern with a rapid increase within the first three weeks after symptoms, and detectable up to seven months post contracting the disease, according to a new study which assessed 300 patients infected...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
Asia surpassed 10 million infections of the new coronavirus on Saturday, the second-heaviest regional toll in the world, according to a Reuters tally, as cases continue to mount in India despite a slowdown and sharp declines elsewhere. Behind only Latin...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 24, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Risk Management
WASHINGTON: A global dirty money watchdog on Friday agreed to revamp its standards to beef up monitoring of financing aimed at evading U.S. and United Nations sanctions and proliferating weapons of mass destruction, the U.S. Treasury Department said. Endorsement of...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 24, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Pandemic
Grim data highlighted the struggle for authorities around the world to bring the coronavirus pandemic under control Saturday, as the US reported 80,000 infections in a single day, France extended a curfew to two-thirds of citizens and Germany's death toll...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 24, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Policy
New Delhi: The deadline for filing returns by individual taxpayers for FY 2019-20 has been extended by a month till December 31, the finance ministry said on Saturday. For those taxpayers whose accounts need to be audited, the Income-Tax Return filing deadline...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 24, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
New Delhi: In a festival gift to borrowers, the Finance Ministry on Wednesday approved guidelines for a scheme for grant of ex-gratia payment of the difference between compound interest and simple interest for six months of loans up to Rs 2 crore. The...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 24, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Pandemic
The United States broke its daily record for new coronavirus infections on Friday as it reported 84,218 new cases due to outbreaks in virtually every part of the country, according to a Reuters tally. The spike in cases comes less than two weeks before the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 24, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Risk Management, Technology
NEW DELHI: Social media giant Facebook on Friday said that the data protection law in progress has potential to propel the country's digital economy and global digital trade. The company's comment came following a hearing by a Joint Committee of Parliament on...