by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 4, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance, Technology
Newark, CA: RMS, the world’s leading catastrophe risk solutions company, estimates that total onshore U.S. insured losses from Hurricane Laura will be between US$9.0 and US$13.0 billion. The estimate includes losses to the National Flood Insurance Program...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 4, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
Over 2,700 people have been fined by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation in the last five months for stepping out in public without wearing masks amid the COVID-19 pandemic, an official said on Friday. As per the Union government's guidelines following the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 4, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: International passengers who have to take connecting domestic flights after landing in India will have the option of getting themselves tested for COVID-19 at the entry airports, the Civil Aviation Ministry said on Wednesday. If the RT-PCR test result is...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 4, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: India's COVID-19 tally went past 39 lakh on Friday with83,341 fresh cases reported in a span of 24 hours, while the number of recoveries crossed the 30-lakh mark, pushing the recovery rate of coronavirus patients in the country to 77.15 per cent,...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 3, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry has not issued any guidelines recommending wearing of a mask if someone is driving a car or cycling alone, a top government official said on Thursday. However, if someone is exercising, cycling or jogging in a group, they should...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 3, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Pandemic
New Delhi: SC protect accounts, which were not declared NPA till Aug 31New Delhi, Sep 3 (PTI) The Supreme Court Thursday directed that accounts, which were not declared as non-performing asset till August 31 this year, shall not be declared NPA till further...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 3, 2020 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts
United Nations: The United Nations chief urged Japan and other wealthy nations on Thursday to give up their reliance on coal and other fossil fuels and commit to investments in green energy as they recover from the coronavirus pandemic. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 3, 2020 | International News, Non-Life, Risk Management
More than 40 crew members were missing after a ship carrying cattle from New Zealand to China capsized in stormy weather in the East China Sea, the Japanese coastguard said on Thursday. A lone crew member from the Gulf Livestock 1 had been rescued so far. Three...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 3, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Indian News, Non-Life, Reinsurance, Risk Management
A new fire broke out on a supertanker carrying about 2 million barrels of oil in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Sri Lanka, spokesmen for the country's navy said on Thursday, adding that one of its 23 crew was missing and another injured. Navy spokesman...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 3, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Pandemic
United Nations: The COVID-19 pandemic will disproportionately affect women and push 47 million more women and girls into extreme poverty by 2021, reversing decades of progress to lift this demographic above the poverty line, according to new data released by the UN....
