by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 16, 2020 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Facts, Technology
SHANGHAI: China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd (CATL), a Tesla supplier, is developing a new type of electric vehicle (EV) battery that contains no nickel or cobalt, a company executive said on Saturday. Nickel and cobalt are key ingredients in the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 16, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
New Delhi: Foreign portfolio investors (FPI) remained net investors in Indian markets in the first half of August, pumping in Rs 28,203 crore in debt and equities on net basis in the period, according to the depositories data. Market experts attributed the inflows to...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 16, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
The US health watchdog has authorised the emergency use of a new and expensive saliva based laboratory diagnostic test for COVID-19 that could be a game changer in the diagnosis of the infection as it will enable rapid testing amongst more people easily....
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 16, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
New Delhi: India's COVID-19 tally rose to 25,89,682 with a single-day spike of 63,490 infections, while the total number of recoveries rose to 18,62,258 pushing the recovery rate to 71.91 per cent on Sunday, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The death...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 16, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
New Delhi: Scientists are working hard on coronavirus vaccine and if their efforts bear fruit, Covid-19 warriors will be the first ones to get the dose, Union Minister of State for Health Ashwini Kumar Choubey said on Saturday. Interacting with reporters on the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 16, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life
New Delhi: The formidable National Digital Health Mission (NDHM), unveiled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday, below which each and every Indian will get a well being ID that may ease entry to medical companies has been rolled out on a pilot mode in...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 15, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance, Risk Management
TOKYO: A Japanese bulk carrier struck a coral reef off the Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius on July 25, spilling about 1,000 tonnes of fuel oil and triggering a state of “environmental emergency”. Scientists say the spill is the country’s...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 15, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life
Firefighters scrambled to protect thousands of homes from a wildfire racing through brush-covered mountains north of Los Angeles on Friday that caused hundreds of evacuations and burned 21 structures. The blaze, dubbed the Lake Fire, swelled to over 17,000 acres...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 15, 2020 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
Greenland’s ice sheet may have shrunk past the point of return, with the ice likely to melt away no matter how quickly the world reduces climate-warming emissions, new research suggests.Scientists studied data on 234 glaciers across the Arctic territory spanning...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 15, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Pandemic
MOSCOW: Russia has produced the first batch of its new vaccine for COVID-19, the Interfax news agency quoted the health ministry as saying on Saturday, hours after the ministry reported the start of manufacturing. Some scientists said they fear that with this fast...
