by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 5, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Risk Management
Mumbai: An FIR has been registered against an unidentified person in connection with a threat call made to Taj Hotel here, police said on Sunday. The caller, claiming himself to be a member of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba terror outfit, had said...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
Thiruvananthapuram: With coronavirus cases gradually increasing in Kerala,the state government, on Sunday, has decided to extend the lockdown,till July 2021, in the state for the next one year as a preventive measure. The government has...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 5, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Pandemic
By Apoorva Mandavilli The coronavirus is finding new victims worldwide, in bars and restaurants, offices, markets and casinos, giving rise to frightening clusters of infection that increasingly confirm what many scientists have been saying for months: The virus...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 5, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
New Delhi: More than 95 per cent of the respondents have started wearing masks or covering their nose and mouth, but the percentage of people following other precautions to prevent coronavirus spread is still low, as per a survey conducted by NCAER. According...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 5, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
GENEVA: The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Saturday that it was discontinuing its trials of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine and combination HIV drug lopinavir/ritonavir in hospitalised patients with COVID-19 after they failed to reduce mortality. ...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 5, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
MUMBAI: India’s leading clinical research agency said Saturday its decision to fast-track development of a potential coronavirus vaccine was in line with international standards, after health experts raised concerns about the schedule for clinical trials. The...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 5, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
New Delhi: With 24,850 people testing positive for coronavirus infection and 613 succumbing to the disease in a day, the highest so far, India's COVID-19 caseload soared to 6,73,165, while the death toll climbed to 19,268 on Sunday, according to the Union...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 4, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Non-Life, Technology
German carmaker Audi and utility EnBW are setting up an electric car battery operation at EnBW's Heilbronn plant to build scaleable storage facilities by the end of this year, drawing on retired batteries to help power grids. Electric vehicle battery...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 4, 2020 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
German lawmakers have finalized the country’s long-awaited phase-out of coal as an energy source, backing a plan that environmental groups say isn’t ambitious enough and free marketeers criticize as a waste of taxpayers’ money. Bills approved...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 4, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
Major ports in India, which handle more than half of the country's seaborne trade, had a nearly 20 percent fall in traffic during the quarter ended June, the Indian Ports Association (IPA) said, as coronavirus lockdowns slowed economic activity. India's...
