by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 13, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts
New Delhi: Forget English and go vernacular to expand your reach, Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant advised financial technology (fintech) firms on Friday. He said the fintech companies risk alienating audiences and losing steam if they ignore India's diverse set of...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 13, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life
New Delhi: It may take some more weeks for Remdesivir in India as pharmaceutical companies, seeking to manufacture them domestically, are still working on furnishing safety and quality data, even though the approval process for its introduction is being...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 13, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health
BANGKOK Researchers in Thailand began collecting samples from horseshoe bats to test them for coronavirus amid concerns they may pose a threat to local residents, a government statement said on Saturday.They plan to collect 300 bats over three days from a cave...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
ROME British drugmaker AstraZeneca Plc said on Saturday it signed a contract with Italy, Germany, France and the Netherlands to supply Europe with a vaccine against the coronavirus, with deliveries starting by the end of 2020. The contract is for up to 400...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 13, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
MUMBAI: For doctors and healthcare workers in India’s financial capital Mumbai who are grappling with surging coronavirus infections, the onset of the annual monsoon poses a serious threat – a new wave of patients with vector-borne diseases.Already...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 13, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
New Delhi: Govt says no community transmission of Covid-19 yet, but experts disagreeAmid a massive spurt in coronavirus cases in India, experts on Saturday came down hard on the ICMR for its sero-survey findings to assert that there was no community...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 13, 2020 | International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
Kent/London: Roanoke Travel Insurance, a subsidiary of Munich Re Specialty Group North America, has partnered with the travel insurance startup battleface to launch product sales in the United States. battleface offers travel insurance products and assistance...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
FRANKFURT: German insurers are putting together plans for a multi-billion euro public-private fund to help companies deal with business interruptions from future pandemics, according to an industry paper. Competitors in the United States and throughout...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 13, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News
PARIS: France’s private insurers would provide business-interruption cover of up to 2 billion euros ($2.2 billion) a year in total for small companies hit by the fallout of any future pandemics, under a system proposed by the industry body. The...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 13, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance, Risk Management, Technology
NEW YORK: U.S. property and casualty insurers have cast the coronavirus pandemic as an unprecedented event whose massive cost to small businesses they are neither able nor required to cover. The industry has warned it could cost them $255 billion to $431...
