by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 19, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life
New Delhi: The country has received six per cent more rainfall than normal so far in this monsoon season, but precipitation in parts of north India remains deficient, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Sunday. The IMD has four meteorological...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 19, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
New Delhi: A study conducted jointly by researchers at IIT-Bhubaneswar and the AIIMS here has shown that the spread of Covid-19 may pick up pace during peak monsoon and winter with a fall in the mercury. The rainfall, decrease in temperatures and cooling of the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 19, 2020 | Indian News, Intermediaries, Technology
New Delhi: Insurance aggregator Policybazaar plans to raise USD 150 million (about ₹1,100 crore) as buffer capital during the third quarter of current fiscal. Although the company doesn't require capital for business expansion, it may raise some funds as a...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 19, 2020 | Banking & Bancassurance, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
Mumbai: HDFC Bank Managing Director Aditya Puri has emerged as the highest paid banker among the top lenders for FY 2019-20, with a 38 per cent jump in salary and perquisites to Rs 18.92 crore. Puri, who built the bank into the largest by assets in the private...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 18, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
New Delhi: At a time when the count of coronavirus cases in the country has exceeded one million, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) has said that community spread has started and the situation is quite bad. While speaking to ANI, Dr V K Monga, the Chairman...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 18, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
Mumbai: Even as Mumbai's Covid-19 case count is nearing the one lakh-mark, the recovery rate of the country's financial capital is nearly 70 per cent, which is seven per cent more than the national average, official data has revealed. A release issued by the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 18, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
Do mosquitoes carry the novel coronavirus and can they transmit Covid-19 to humans? Maybe not. In a new study, the researchers have confirmed that Covid-19 virus cannot be transmitted to people by mosquitoes. The findings, published in the journal Scientific...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 18, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
London: Fresh studies give more information about what treatments do or don't work for Covid-19, with high-quality methods that give reliable results. British researchers on Friday published their research on the only drug shown to improve survival —...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 18, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
NEW DELHI: Indian farmers have planted 69.2 million hectares with summer crops, up 21.2% from this time a year earlier, according to the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare, boosted by bountiful monsoon rains that spurred sowing in most parts of the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 18, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
Global coronavirus infections passed 14 million on Friday, according to a Reuters tally, marking the first time there has been a surge of 1 million cases in under 100 hours. The first case was reported in China in early January and it took three months to reach 1...
