by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 23, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Pandemic
AstraZeneca Plc has resumed the U.S. trial of its experimental COVID-19 vaccine after approval by regulators, and Johnson & Johnson is preparing to resume its trial on Monday or Tuesday, the companies said on Friday.The news signaled progress against the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 23, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life
Bayer’s Monsanto division on Wednesday [Oct. 21] lost a final appeal in a long-running French legal battle in which the crop chemical maker has been held liable for the accidental inhalation of a weedkiller by a crop farmer. Monsanto had been trying to...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 23, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health
NEW DELHI: U.S. President Donald Trump’s description of India as a filthy place with polluted air has unleashed calls on social media for urgent clean-up action, particularly over New Delhi, the world’s most polluted capital. Defending the clean air in the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 23, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Life, Non-Life
New Delhi: A contract of insurance is of utmost good faith and a proposer who seeks to obtain life insurance policy is duty bound to disclose all material facts bearing upon the issue, the Supreme Court has said. The top court said this while setting aside the March...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
The entire Himalayan arc is poised to produce a sequence of great earthquakes, and the next big quake — of the magnitude of 8 or above — may occur during our lifetimes, according to a study reviewing geological, historical, and geophysical data. The human...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 23, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life
NEW DELHI: The government on Friday said it has notified amendments to the motor vehicle rules for clearly incorporating ownership details in registration documents, a move that will help physically challenged persons. The step was taken after it was brought to...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 23, 2020 | International News, Life
MILAN: Italy’s tax police raided the offices of state railway Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) and Generali to gather documents in a probe related to the awarding of contracts to the Italian insurer, a document seen by Reuters on Friday showed. A source close to the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 23, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
MUMBAI/BHUBANESWAR: India is urgently preparing a database of all government and private health personnel to quickly vaccinate them against the novel coronavirus once it is safe to do so, health authorities said on Friday.Prime Minister Narendra Modi has...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 23, 2020 | Indian News, Non-Life
Mumbai: With a higher investment income and haelthy combined ratio, ICICI Lombard General Insurance,the largest private sector general insurer, seen its net profit rising by 35 per cent year-on-year to Rs 415.74 crore in Q2 FY 2020-21 The non-life...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 23, 2020 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life
Mumbai: India’s richest state Maharashtra has invited U.S. electric-car maker Tesla Inc, weeks after its Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk suggested entering the country next year. In a tweet here on Thursday, state tourism and environment minister...
