by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 22, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Policy, Workplace/Employee Benefits
NEW DELHI: India’s lower house of parliament on Tuesday approved long-pending, disputed labour reforms in the teeth of a boycott by opposition parties and protests from trade unions. The three new labour codes – making it easier for firms to hire and fire...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 22, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Risk Management
New York/London Risk professionals face six challenges in understanding and addressing risks to reputation, according to the report “Closing the Gaps on Reputational Risk Management”:prepared by Airmic, RIMS and the RepTrak Company....
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 22, 2020 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance, Risk Management
BOSTON: Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide (AIR) today announced that it released an updated Multiple Peril Crop Insurance (MPCI) Model for China to support probabilistic assessments for five newly modeled crop lines of business and a newly modeled...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 22, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
Reddy's Laboratories Ltd could begin late-stage Indian clinical trials of Russia's potential coronavirus vaccine in the next few weeks, an executive at the Indian drugmaker said on Tuesday. Indian trials of the Sputnik-V vaccine candidate, being developed by...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 22, 2020 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
New Delhi: While the pace of renewable energy growth has slowed in India, positive outcomes in recent auctions suggest there remains plenty of appetite among domestic and foreign investors to build renewable infrastructure, a new IEEFA briefing note said on...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 22, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Intermediaries, Life, Non-Life
New Delhi: InsuranceDekho on Tuesday said GirnarSoft has committed USD 20 million (around Rs 147 crore) investment in the company. InsuranceDekho, an omni channel insurance platform, is a subsidiary of GirnarSoft. The funds will be invested in branding, and...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 22, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
GENEVA/LONDON: Some 156 nations have joined a global scheme for fair distribution of future vaccines against COVID-19, an alliance led by the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday, but superpowers China and the United States did not sign up. U.S....
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 22, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday took down its guidance warning on possible airborne transmission of the novel coronavirus, saying that the draft recommendation was posted in error. The now-withdrawn guidance, posted on the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 22, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
MOSCOW/BRASILIA: Russia is so confident in its COVID-19 vaccine that it will shoulder some of the legal liability should anything go wrong, rather than requiring buyers to take on the full risk, the head of the state fund bankrolling the project told Reuters. The...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 22, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: A vaccine for the coronavirus will likely be ready by early 2021 but rolling it out safely across India’s 1.3 billion people will be the country’s biggest challenge in fighting its surging epidemic, a leading vaccine scientist told Bloomberg....
