by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 11, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Technology
Mumbai: Concerted efforts by the Reserve Bank to move to a non/less-cash economy by pushing digital payments have begun to pay rich dividends as the volume of such payments has jumped manifold in the past five years, the latest data from the central bank...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 11, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
New Delhi: Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Sunday saidthe government has not yet taken a view on granting emergency authorisation to COVID-19 vaccines in India, as and when they become available. The minister also said that the indigenously developed Feluda...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 11, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life, Technology
New Delhi: The Delhi government has exempted road tax on its battery-operated vehicles under its new Electric Vehicle Policy, Delhi Transport minister Kailash Gahlot said on Sunday. The Transport department, in it notification issued on Saturday, stated that the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 11, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Technology
New Delhi: Digital healthcare in the country is going to witness exponential growth in the next five years and there is a long way to go for the sector and companies in this space, Practo co-founder and CEO Shashank ND said on Sunday. The healthcare as an...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 11, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: India's COVID-19 tally of cases raced past 70 lakh, 13 days after it had crossed the 60-lakh mark, while the number of people who have recuperated from the disease crossed 60 lakh, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 11, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
New Delhi: Mortgage lender HDFC Ltd's CEO Keki Mistry on Saturday said the "worst is behind us" and the economic recovery has been faster than expected. Stating that the December quarter growth could outperform the expansion logged in the corresponding...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 11, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
Hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, India's top 12 ports continue to witness considerable decline in cargo traffic registering a 14 per cent dip in the first half of the current fiscal to 298.55 million tonnes (MT), according to ports' apex body IPA. Cargo...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 11, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Technology
The data centre infrastructure spending in India is expected to touch $2.8 billion, with an year over year decline of 14.4 per cent in 2020 and an estimated single digit growth in 2021, a new Gartner report said on Wednesday. Many Indian enterprises have delayed their...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 11, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Pandemic
MEXICO CITY: Mexico’s government announced on Saturday that it paid the World Health Organization $159.88 million to secure access to COVID-19 vaccines through the agency’s COVAX plan as countries across the globe race to secure supplies. The global...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 11, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic, Workplace/Employee Benefits
When miners at Indonesia’s giant Grasberg gold and copper mine started testing positive for coronavirus early in the pandemic, the mountain-top mining complex was quickly locked down with a skeletal staff left in place to maintain production.But as months of...
