by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 30, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life
Boston: In a tweet,Tesla CEO Elon Musk solved a mystery involving a 27-year-old Russian, an insider at an unnamed corporation and an alleged million-dollar payment offered to help trigger a ransomware extortion attack on the firm. Prosecutors declined to name the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 29, 2020 | Health, Indian News, Non-Life
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has expressed concern over the sudden "steep" increase in the premium of insurance policies by government companies for lawyers and said this would completely defeat the purpose of the Chief Minister's Advocates'...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 29, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
NEW DELHI: A mental health study done on over 8,000 individuals found that college students were the most affected by the novel coronavirus pandemic and the lockdown. Conducted by YourDost, an online mental health platform, the study found that the second...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 29, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
New Delhi: Unlock 4.0, the fourth phase of opening of the economy after coronavirus lockdown since March 25, will start from September 1. Metro rail will be allowed to operate with effect from 7 th September 2020 in a graded manner as part of `Unlock...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 29, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: India's COVID-19 tally raced past 34 lakh with a single-day spike of 76,472 cases, while the number of recoveries surged to 26,48,998, pushing the recovery rate to 76.47 per cent on Saturday, according to the Union health ministry. The total number of...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 29, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life
New Delhi: India has received the highest rainfall in the month of August in the last 44 years, IMD data shows, as several parts of the country have witnessed floods. Until August 28, the month recorded a 25-per cent surplus rainfall. It has also...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 29, 2020 | Articles, Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Non-Life, Reinsurance, Risk Management
By Seth Borenstein A destructive storm rising from warm waters. Again. America and the world are getting more frequent and bigger multibillion dollar tropical catastrophes like Hurricane Laura, which menaced the U.S. Gulf Coast, because of a combination of...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 29, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Life, Non-Life
New Delhi: Minister of State for Finance & Corporate Affairs, Anurag Thakur today said that India has a vibrant insurance industry that has spearheaded the government's policy of insuring the uninsured. "My assurance to the insurance industry, that we...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 29, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
BEIJING: China’s banking and insurance regulator has approved a new state-backed agricultural reinsurance firm, the state-owned Xinhua News Agency reported on Friday. The new reinsurance company, with registration capital of 16.1 billion yuan ($2.34...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 29, 2020 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
New Delhi: The environment ministry on Friday said that in a virtual session organised by the PHD Chamber, one of its senior official had spoken about the predicted fall in global carbon dioxide emission due to the COVID-19 situation. During the virtual session...
