by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 3, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Risk Management
U.S. coal baron Robert Murray, whose company Murray Energy filed for bankruptcy last year, has applied for federal benefits to treat his black lung disease after opposing more stringent coal dust regulations for years, according to report by West Virginia...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 2, 2020 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life
TOKYO: Japan’s Honda Motor will end its participation as an engine supplier in the FIA Formula One World Championship at the end of the 2021 season to focus on zero-emission technology, it said on Friday. The decision was made at the end of September and the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 2, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
Mumbai: The presence of COVID-19 antibodies in samples from slums in the city was found to have decreased by 12 per cent in the second sero survey, the Mumbai civic body has said. It indicates that the infection spread in slums in the city may have come down,...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 2, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Risk Management, Technology
Russia-based hackers are responsible for the majority of nation-state attacks on Microsoft customers, according to new data from company. Microsoft Corp. has issued 13,000 alerts about nation-state hacking attempts to its customers in the last two years, with 52% of...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 2, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic, Technology
San Francisco: A biotechnology startup called Koniku is trying to develop robots that could sniff out Covid-19 infections faster than conventional testing. The technology fuses neurons with a silicon chip to create a “smell cyborg” capable of...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 2, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
Rome: There is good news today for the world’s most vulnerable and marginalised rural communities, as the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) receives its first public credit rating. This sets the stage for increased investments in food...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 2, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
NEW DELHI: Eight months after the novel coronavirus arrived in India, the number of deaths from the disease is due to cross 100,000 imminently. Nearly 6.5 million people have been infected in total, second only to the number in the United States.Reuters...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 2, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Pandemic
LONDON: A major non-profit health emergencies group has set up a global laboratory network to assess data from potential COVID-19 vaccines, allowing scientists and drugmakers to compare them and speed up selection of the most effective shots. Speaking to...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 2, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
New Delhi: Researchers, including those from the Government of Tamil Nadu, and Andhra Pradesh, have conducted one of the largest analysis of COVID-19 epidemiology to date, and have found that both cases and deaths due to the disease have been more heavily...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 2, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Pandemic
An effective vaccine is not likely to be available for the general public before the fall of 2021, according to experts working in the field of vaccine development. Researchers at McGill University in Canada carried out a survey of 28 experts working in...
