by AIP Online Bureau | May 5, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Policy
New York: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said that overcoming the coronavirus pandemic will require the most massive public health effort in history since it is an interconnected world where “none of us is safe until all of us are safe”....
by AIP Online Bureau | May 5, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Technology
Jerusalem/New York: Chipmaker Intel Corp has bought Israeli public transit app maker Moovit for about $900 million to help it develop self-driving "robotaxis" that could take to the streets in early 2022, the company said on Monday. ...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 5, 2020 | Indian News, Life
Mumbai: The Profit after Tax (PAT) of SBI Life, the second largest private sector life insurers, on the basis of the market share, grew by 7% to Rs 1,420 crore in FY 2020 from Rs1,330 crore in FY2019. The life insurer, with a 6.41 per cent...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 5, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
London: American International Group, Inc.(AIG) today announced the launch of Lloyd’s Syndicate 2019. This landmark Syndicate, the largest ever to be launched through Lloyd’s, will exclusively reinsure risks from AIG’s Private Client Group...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 5, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health
New Delhi: India should come out with a large enough stimulus package to revive demand, Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee said on Tuesday, asserting that putting cash in the hands of people would be the best way to boost the economy post lockdown. Banerjee, while...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 5, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health
Mumbai: With further extension of the nationwide lockdown, the RBI is considering a proposal for extending the moratorium on bank loans by another three months to help people and industry impacted by the ongoing lockdown to contain COVID-19. Suggestions...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 5, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health
LONDON: A substantial majority of people around the world want their governments to prioritise saving lives over moves to restart economies being hammered by measures aimed at halting the spread of the new coronavirus, a global survey found.The latest findings of the...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 5, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
New Delhi: The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 1,568 and the number of cases climbed to 46,433 in the country on Tuesday, the Union Health Ministry said. The number of active cases stood at 32,138, while 12,726 people have recovered and one patient...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 5, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health
PARIS: The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday that medicinal plants such as Artemisia annua, touted as possible treatments for COVID-19, should be tested for efficacy and side effects. The WHO said it supported scientifically proven traditional...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 5, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News
NEW YORK: A newly revised coronavirus mortality model predicts nearly 135,000 Americans will die from COVID-19 by early August, almost double previous projections, as social-distancing measures for quelling the pandemic are increasingly relaxed, researchers said...
