by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 24, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
About 400,000 airline workers have been fired, furloughed or told they may lose their jobs due to the coronavirus, according to Bloomberg calculations. The aviation industry has suffered more than most as the pandemic destroys ticket sales and strips companies...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 24, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
BRUSSELS: Companies seeking to transfer data to the United States must revert to new arrangements with immediate effect after the Privacy Shield transatlantic pact was declared invalid last week, a European Union watchdog said on Friday. The privacy watchdog...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 24, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
NEW DELHI: Mansoor Khan and his wife Latifa Bibi have been collecting scraps of plastic and other items at an enormous landfill site on the outskirts of New Delhi for nearly 20 years.Their $5 daily earnings each keep their three children at school, in search of a...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 24, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
BENGALURU: Cipla Ltd has received Indian regulatory approval to sell anti-viral drug favipiravir to treat COVID-19, the drugmaker said on Friday, as coronavirus infections in the world’s third worst-hit nation show no sign of abating. The Drug Controller General...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 24, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: The upper and lower limits on domestic airfares have been extended till November 24, the Aviation Ministry said Friday. The ministry had on May 21 placed these limits till August 24. “As per the prevailing situation of COVID-19, the Central...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 24, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Intermediaries, Technology
New Delhi: The government has notified new rules for e-commerce companies, including mandatory display of 'country of origin' on their products, and said any non-compliance will attract penal action. The 'Consumer Protection (E-Commerce) Rules,...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 24, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Intermediaries, Non-Life, Pandemic
Hyderabad: The insurance regulator IRDAI has now allowed the insurers to offer “Arogya Sanjeevani” Policy,the standard individual health insurance policy,to the public also as a group policy under the same name “Arogya...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 24, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic, Reinsurance
London: Lloyd’s, the world’s leading specialist insurance and reinsurance market, today announced the creation and in principle approval* of its newest “syndicate in a box,” Syndicate 1796, set up to insure the storage and...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 24, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
New Delhi: India saw a record single-day spike of 49,310 COVID-19 cases taking the country's virus tally to 12,87,945 on Friday, while the recoveries surged to 8,17,208, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The death toll mounted to 30,601 with 740 new...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 24, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Pandemic
GENEVA: The head of the World Health Organization said on Thursday that reported comments by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo questioning his independence were untrue and would not distract the organisation from its work in fighting the coronavirus. Director...
