by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 12, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Life
LONDON: British life insurer Prudential said on Tuesday it planned to spin off its U.S. business Jackson to focus on Africa and its largest market Asia, responding to investor pressure for a split. Prudential’s shares hit eight-week highs as investors...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 12, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: India's COVID-19 tally went past 23 lakh on Wednesday, with a single day increase of?60,963 cases, while the recoveries surged to?16,39,599, according to the Union Health Ministry data.? The total coronavirus cases in the country have mounted to...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 12, 2020 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
New Delhi: Hindon, a tributary of Ganga, is one of the polluted river stretches and no meaningful action has been being taken to clean it, the National Green Tribunal said Tuesday while directing the UP chief secretary to ensure coordination for rejuvenation of...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 12, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
It took six months for the world to reach 10 million confirmed cases of the coronavirus. It took just over six weeks for that number to double.The worldwide count of known COVID-19 infections climbed past 20 million on Monday, with more than half of them from just...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 12, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Pandemic
WELLINGTON: New Zealand officials are investigating the possibility that its first COVID-19 cases in more than three months were imported by freight, as the country plunged back into lockdown on Wednesday.The discovery of four infected family members in...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 11, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts
GENEVA: Young people who have lost jobs or schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic risk carrying “scarring effects” throughout their working lives unless governments provide immediate support, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said on Tuesday. An...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 11, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Risk Management, Technology
OAKLAND: Alphabet Inc’s Google’s Android phones on Tuesday started detecting earthquakes around the world to provide data that could eventually give billions of users precious seconds of warning of a tremor nearby, with an alerting feature first rolling...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 11, 2020 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) last Thursday predicted up to 16 more named tropical storms this year, to as many as 25, the highest in the agency’s history. The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, which began on June 1, has already...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 11, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic, Reinsurance
Companies risk losing more than 40% of annual profit once a decade in a world threatened by trade wars, cyber attacks, pandemics and climate change, according to McKinsey & Co., which estimates the COVID-19 crisis could top $5 trillion in economic losses...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 11, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Pandemic
The United States will need to have independent experts review COVID-19 vaccine candidates before approval, the country’s top drug regulator said on Friday, offering reassurance that his agency would not cut corners in the race to roll out a vaccine. U.S....
