by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 3, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Pandemic
GENEVA: The World Health Organization warned on Monday that there might never be a “silver bullet” for COVID-19 in the form of a perfect vaccine and that the road to normality would be long, with some countries requiring a reset of strategy.More...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 3, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
Mumbai: India’s factory slump deepened in July as renewed lockdown measures to contain surging coronavirus cases weighed on demand and output, raising the chances of a sharper economic contraction, a private business survey showed on Monday.Asia’s...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 3, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
New Delhi: ICMR chief Dr Balram Bhargava said has said that it is difficult to predict whether or not India will see a second wave of Covid-19 infections and there will be smaller peaks at different times due to varied geography of the country. In an exclusive...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 3, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Policy, Regulation
GIFT City, Gandhinagar: The newly constituted International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA).an unified regulator for International Financial Services Centres, on Monday,has constituted a committee headed by Pradip Shah, chairman,Indasia Fund...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 3, 2020 | Banking & Bancassurance, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life
New Delhi: More than 40 crore bank accounts have been opened under the government's flagship financial inclusion drive Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY), launched about six years ago by the Modi-government. As per the latest figure, there are 40.05 crore...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 3, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
New Delhi: The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has given nod to the Serum Institute of India (SII) for conducting phase 2 and 3 human clinical trials of the Oxford University developed COVID-19 vaccine candidate in the country Government officials told...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 3, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Risk Management
Whether you find him admirable or obnoxious, Elon Musk is having a fantastic year. SpaceX, the company he founded in 2002,blasted two American astronauts to the International Space Station in late May and brought them safely home in a historic splashdown...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 3, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Pandemic
India is now the epicenter of the global coronavirus pandemic. It ranks just behind the US and Brazil in confirmed cases and is growing faster than either. The total rose 20 per cent in just the last week, despite the fact that India is testing less than most...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 3, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News
Wealthy countries have already locked up more than a billion doses of coronavirus vaccines, raising worries that the rest of the world will be at the back of the queue in the global effort to defeat the pathogen. Moves by the US and UK to secure supplies from Sanofi...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 3, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
New Delhi: India reported 52,972 new coronavirus infections in the past 24 hours, taking the total to 1.8 million, data from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare showed on Monday. With 771 new deaths, the COVID-19 disease has now claimed 38,135 lives in...
