by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 5, 2020 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
New Delhi: India may face devastating climate change effects, including killer heat waves and severe flooding, in the next 80 years, says a study that calls for urgent steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to avert associated risks to the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 5, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
NEW DELHI: Accelerating efforts to restart long-stalled business activities to contain the economic cost of the pandemic, the Health Ministry on Thursday released SOPs for reopening offices, hotels, shopping malls, restaurants and religious places. Some of them have...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 5, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News
GENEVA: Some countries have seen “upticks” in COVID-19 cases as lockdowns ease, and populations must protect themselves from the coronavirus while authorities continue testing, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. The epicentre of the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 5, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Life, Non-Life, Risk Management
New Delhi: Against India witnessing 1.5 lakh deaths in 5 lakh road crashes annually, Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Friday said it is his endeavour to reduce these numbers by at least 25 per cent by the fiscal-end. Launching the UNDP national awareness...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 5, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Technology
SINGAPORE Singapore plans to give a wearable device that will identify people who had interacted with carriers of coronavirus to each of its 5.7 million residents, in what could become one of the most comprehensive contact-tracing efforts globally. ...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 5, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life
LONDON/LOS ANGELES/MADRID: The $1 trillion container shipping industry is in a slowdown. Literally. Some shipping lines, whose retail customers are being hammered by the coronavirus pandemic, are reducing sailing speeds and taking longer routes around...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 5, 2020 | Indian News
Meerut (UP): Meerut Police on Thursday claimed that around 13,500 mobile phones in the country are running on the same IMEI, the number used to identify the device. A case of fraud has been registered against the mobile phone manufacturing company and its...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 5, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Policy
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday extended till June 12 its earlier order of May 15 asking the government not to take any coercive action against companies and employers for violation of Centre's March 29 circular for payment of full wages to employees for...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 5, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News
Washington: U.S. trade credit insurers have approached the U.S. Treasury Department and Federal Reserve seeking financial backing for claims payments to support business supply chains hit by the novel coronavirus pandemic, three people familiar with the matter...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 5, 2020 | International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance, Risk Management
Geneva: The International Olympic Committee is in talks with insurers over being compensated for the postponed Tokyo Games. An "open discussion” is under way with insurance brokers, the IOC’s Olympic Games operations director Pierre...
