by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 6, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Risk Management, Technology
New Delhi: The government may impose stricter conditions on foreign internet companies such as Amazon, Google and Facebook. The draft ecommerce policy also proposes appointment of an ecommerce regulator to ensure fair competition in the industry,...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 6, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
BENGALURU: Drugmaker Mylan NV said on Monday it would launch its generic version of Gilead Sciences Inc’s COVID-19 treatment remdesivir in India this month at 4,800 rupees ($64.31) per 100 mg vial, as infections surge in the world’s third worst-hit...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 6, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Life, Non-Life, Pandemic
Mumbai: In order to allay the fears of all insurance policyholders and to bring complete clarity and transparency in the treatment of Covid-19 insurance claims, the General Insurance Council, in discussion with expert medical professionals employed...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 6, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: The total number of tests for detection of COVID-19 crossed the one-crore mark in India on Monday, an ICMR official said. A single-day jump of 24,248 COVID-19 cases took India's tally close to the 7-lakh mark on Monday, while the death...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 6, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Intermediaries, Non-Life
Mumbai: Even as merger and acquisition(M&A) is gaining momentum in the Indian general insurance sector,Paytm,owned by One 97 Communications Ltd, along with its founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma,has expanded its foothold in the Indian general...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 5, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
CAIRO: Saudi Arabia announced health protocols to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus in the 2020 haj season, banning gatherings and meetings between pilgrims, the state news agency said on Monday. Saudi Arabia decided in June to limit the number of...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 5, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
TOKYO: Japan’s Fujitsu Ltd said on Monday it would halve its office space in three years as it rewrites the way employees work under a “new normal” amid the coronavirus pandemic. The IT solutions company said its roughly 80,000 group employees...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 5, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
New Delhi: A 106-year-old man from Delhi, who was a four-year-old during the 1918 Spanish Flu, has survived COVID-19 and recovered faster than his son, who is in his 70s, at a coronavirus facility in the national capital, doctors said. The patient was...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 5, 2020 | Data, Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Pandemic
New Delhi: Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal inaugurated the 10,000-bed Sardar Patel Covid care centre, the "largest" of its kind in the world, at the Radha Soami Satsang Beas here on Sunday. The centre has been set up in Chhatarpur for...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 5, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
LONDON: Britain is close to a 500 million pound ($624 million) supply deal with Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline for 60 million doses of a potential COVID-19 vaccine, the Sunday Times reported. Clinical trials are due to start in September and Sanofi has said it...
