by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 15, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Risk Management
New Delhi: As the world grapples with coronavirus, researchers have found the presence of a different kind of coronavirus — bat coronavirus (BtCoV) –in two bat species from Kerala, Himachal Pradesh, Puducherry and Tamil Nadu, according to a...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 15, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health
In the six days after top Chinese officials secretly determined, they likely were facing a pandemic from a new coronavirus, the city of Wuhan at the epicentre of the disease hosted a mass banquet for tens of thousands of people; millions began travelling...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 15, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
NEW DELHI: India will allow opening up of some industries in rural areas after April 20 to reduce the distress caused to millions of people because of a prolonged lockdown to halt the spread of coronavirus, the government said on Wednesday. Prime...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 14, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life
Hyderabad: The Indian general insurance industry, with 33 players,has missed its much expected target of Rs 2 lakh crore annual premium in 2019-20 as disruptions caused by nationwide lockdown, due to outbreak of Covid 19, has pulled down the industry's...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 14, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
New Delhi: With aviation and hospitality sectors seeing mass cancellation of bookings following COVID-19 outbreak, the CBIC has allowed businesses to claim refund of GST in cases where invoice was generated but was subsequently cancelled. The Central Board of...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 14, 2020 | Indian News, Non-Life, Regulation
Mumbai: DHFL General insurance,owned by Wadhawan Global Capital (WGC) promoted by Kapil Wadhawan,has changed hands and has started functioning as NAVI General Insurance promoted by Sachin Bansal,a technoogy enterpreneur known co-founding Flipkart. ...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 14, 2020 | International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
London: Miller Insurance Services LLP (Miller) has launched a pioneering new quote and bind platform-Atlantic- providing a more sophisticated approach to the submission, placement and management of yacht policies. Designed for intermediaries across the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 14, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
New Delhi: Extension of the nationwide lockdown till May 3 will inflict an economic loss of USD 234.4 billion, and result in stagnant GDP for calendar year 2020, a British brokerage said on Tuesday. The economic growth will be zero for calendar year 2020...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 14, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
New Delhi: The death toll due to coronavirus infection in the country rose to 339 while the number of cases soared to 10,363 on Tuesday, said the Union Health Ministry. While the number of active COVID-19 cases stood at 8,988, as many as 1,035 people...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 14, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News
LONDON: World stocks gained on Tuesday after Chinese trade data came in better than expected and some countries tried to restart their economy by partly lifting restrictions aimed at containing the coronavirus outbreak. European stock markets opened stronger, with the...
