by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 20, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Regulation, Risk Management
HONG KONG: HSBC and Standard Chartered’s Hong Kong shares dropped on Monday after media reports that they and other banks moved large sums of allegedly illicit funds over nearly two decades despite red flags about the origins of the money.BuzzFeed and other...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
London: Ciaran Martin, who stepped down as head of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre this month, will call on Boris Johnson’s government to make it illegal for companies to pay cyber hackers a ransom. “If I had one policy card to play in...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 20, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
New Delhi: No significant or drastic mutation in strains of SARS-CoV-2 has been found in India till now, Union Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Sunday during an interaction with his social media followers. He also said the Indian Council of Medical Research...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 20, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
NINGBO, China : Authorities in China’s northeastern Jilin province have found the novel coronavirus on the packaging of imported squid, health authorities in the city of Fuyu said on Sunday, urging anyone who may have bought it to get themselves...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 20, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
Two drug companies that are leading the race to develop coronavirus vaccines bowed to public pressure on Thursday, abandoning their traditional secrecy and releasing comprehensive road maps of how they are evaluating their vaccines. The companies, Moderna and Pfizer,...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 20, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic, Technology, Workplace/Employee Benefits
New Delhi: India's largest software services firm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has set up 11 first-line COVID-19 isolation centres within its premises in various cities in India, including Mumbai, Indore and Nagpur. According to an email to employees, these...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 20, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
New Delhi: The overall number of cases and deaths per million population due to COVID-19 in the country is low compared to similarly affected countries, Minister of State for Health Ashwini Kumar Choubey told Rajya Sabha on Sunday. Noting that there are no established...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 20, 2020 | Banking & Bancassurance, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Risk Management
Mumbai: Public sector banks (PSBs) reported frauds worth over Rs 19,964 crore in total 2,867 cases during the April-June quarter of the ongoing fiscal year, according to a reply to an RTI query. The country's largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) saw the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 20, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
Many things will have to work out to end the coronavirus pandemic. Drug companies will have to develop a safe and effective vaccine. Billions of people will have to consent to vaccination. But there are more prosaic challenges, too. Among them: Companies may...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 20, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
New Delhi: India's single-day recoveries surpassed the number of new infections for the second consecutive day on Sunday, with 94,612 people having recuperated from COVID-19, even as the total caseload sprinted past 54 lakh, according to the Union Health...
