by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 8, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi told leaders of opposition and other parties in Parliament that the nationwide lockdown will not be revoked in one go on April 14, according to BJD’s Pinaki Misra. Modi’s comments came during a meeting...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 8, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
New Delhi: Doctors and healthcare professionals are "warriors" in fight against coronavirus and have to be protected, the Supreme Court said on Wednesday even as the Centre assured that it is doing its best by providing them personal protective...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 8, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the government to issue directions to approved private testing laboratories and hospitals for conducting COVID-19 tests free of cost. Private hospitals and laboratories have to...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 8, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Regulation
Hyderabad: Providing relief to the Covid-19 pandemic stricken Indian Inc, in line the Reserve Bank of India's earlier move, the insurance regulator IRDAI has now allowed insurers to grant a moratorium of three months towards payment of instalments...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 8, 2020 | Articles, Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Life, Non-Life, Reinsurance
The latest sigma "Natural catastrophes in times of economic accumulation and climate change" says that Swiss Re Institute expects that global warming will lead to growing intensity and frequency of severe weather events, but also to more uncertainty...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 8, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News
WUHAN: The Chinese city where the coronavirus epidemic first broke out, Wuhan, ended a two-month lockdown on Wednesday, but a northern town started restricting the movement of its residents amid concerns of a second wave of infections in mainland China. ...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 8, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
Mumbai: Covid-19 cases in India have risen to 5,360, and 164 people have died so far .after registering over 15 fresh deaths — the highest single-day casualty since the coronavirus outbreak. With over 10 new deaths, the toll in Maharashtra...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 8, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
New Delhi: The world’s biggest lockdown has brought transportation of goods in the country close to a halt, even though the government has exempted the sector from restrictions to halt the spread of coronavirus. Daily movement of trucks has collapsed to...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 8, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News
Geneva: The COVID-19 crisis has the potential to push around 40 crore informal sector workers in India deeper into poverty, with the lockdown and other containment measures affecting jobs and earnings, an International Labour Organisation (ILO) report said on...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 7, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News
WASHINGTON: U.S. President Donald Trump sharply criticized the World Health Organization on Tuesday, accusing it of being too focused on China and issuing bad advice during the new coronavirus outbreak and saying he would put a hold on U.S. funding for the...
