by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 20, 2020 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
New Delhi: The Drugs Controller General of India has approved the commercial launch of ‘Feluda’, the Tata CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) COVID-19 test, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) said...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 20, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life
New Delhi: The government on Saturday said a Cabinet note has been formulated for the vehicle scrapping policy. "Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has formulated a note for Cabinet on creation of an ecosystem for voluntary and environment...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 19, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Risk Management, Technology
Iranian hackers, most likely employees or affiliates of the government, have been running a vast cyberespionage operation equipped with surveillance tools that can outsmart encrypted messaging systems — a capability Iran was not previously known to possess,...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 19, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life, Technology
Asking citizens to be cautious while being online, National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval said on September 18 that financial frauds have seen exponential increase due to greater dependence on digital payment platforms following the COVID-19 pandemic. He...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 19, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life, Risk Management
New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal has directed the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to revisit the guidelines for classifying poultry farms as Green category industry and exempting their regulation under various laws. The green panel asked the CPCB...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 19, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
Pune: he phase-III human clinical trial of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Oxford University and being manufactured by the Serum Institute of India (SII) will begin at the Sassoon General Hospital in Pune next week. Dean of the state-run Sassoon General...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 19, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic, Policy
New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha today passed a legislation that provides for up to five years in jail for those attacking doctors and healthcare workers fighting the COVID-19 outbreak or during any situation akin to the current pandemic. The Epidemic Diseases (Amendment)...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 19, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: The government on Wednesday said with the phased unlocking of the Indianeconomy, high frequency economic indicators like PMI manufacturing, index of eight core industries, kharif sowing and power consumption have recovered since June 1. Union Minister of...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 19, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
The COVID-19 pandemic could cause a short-term decline in life expectancy in the severely affected areas of the world, unless the spread of the disease is contained, according to a study. The research, published in the journal PLOS ONE, examined the impact of...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 19, 2020 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
A group of about 60 American businesses on Thursday urged their insurers to stop providing coverage to and investing in fossil fuel producers. In a letter, companies including outdoor-gear producer Patagonia and ice-cream maker Ben & Jerry's, a unit of...
