by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 27, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Risk Management
New Delhi: With swarms of locusts descending on neighbouring Gurugram, Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai on Saturday asked the national capital's south and west districts' administrations to remain on high alert, said officials. According to...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 27, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
Chennai: The coronavirus pandemic has triggered panic attacks among those who tested positive for the virus, causing bouts of depression and even driving some to the brink of suicide, say mental health experts. Nervousness, fear of contamination, panic...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 27, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Pandemic
Geneva: A World Health Organization-led coalition fighting the Covid-19 pandemic is asking government and private sector donors to help raise $31.3 billion in the next 12 months to develop and deliver tests, treatments and vaccines for the disease. ...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 27, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic, Reinsurance
LONDON: Britain’s financial services compensation body is “keeping an eye” on insurers facing claims from companies whose business has been interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, its chief executive told Reuters. Some insurers have...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 27, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Risk Management, Technology
When a U.K.-based technology vendor started doing business in China, it hired a cybersecurity firm to proactively hunt for any digital threats that could arise as part of doing business in the country. The firm discovered a problem, one with such major...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 27, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
NEW DELHI: India reported over 17,000 new coronavirus cases over the last 24 hours, pushing the country’s total above 500,000, federal health ministry data showed on Saturday, with infections surging in major cities including the capital New Delhi. The...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 27, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
MADRID: Spanish virologists have found traces of the novel coronavirus in a sample of Barcelona waste water collected in March 2019, nine months before the COVID-19 disease was identified in China, the University of Barcelona said on Friday. The discovery of virus...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 27, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic, Technology
TOKYO: As face coverings become the norm amid the coronavirus pandemic, Japanese startup Donut Robotics has developed an internet-connected “smart mask” that can transmit messages and translate from Japanese into eight other languages. The...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 26, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic, Regulation
Hyderabad: Even as India's Covid-19 cases are flaring up to touch 5 lakhs along with a death toll of 15,301 on Friday, the insurance regulator IRDA has finalised the various contours,that will be uniform across all Insurers,of its short term...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 26, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Pandemic, Policy
New Delhi: The central government extended the suspension of scheduled international passenger flights in the country till July 15 but added that some international scheduled services on selected routes may be permitted on a case to case basis. Scheduled...
