by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 23, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health
MUMBAI:- Shaikh Bahaduresha, 31, lived on Mumbai’s streets for two months last year, unable to make ends meet on his meagre taxi-driving profits of roughly $5 a day. After he got married in December, his wife put some money towards renting a small...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 23, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
by Devjyot Ghoshal NEW DELHI: India could face between around 100,000 and 1.3 million confirmed cases of the disease caused by the new coronavirus by mid-May if it continues to spread at its current pace, according to a team of scientists based mainly in...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
Tokyo: The Tokyo Olympics appears to be creeping towards a postponement, an unprecedented and costly exercise that involves ripping up years of planning. As International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach told Germany's SWR: ...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 23, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Intermediaries, Technology
New Delhi: Following the unforeseen disruption of the coronavirus pandemic, companies are now resorting to intelligent automated systems that offer virtual screening environment and interviewing experience, instead of conducting in-person interviews....
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 23, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News
French insurance lobby FFA said on Monday insurers would contribute up to 200 million euros ($216 million) to funds set up by the government to help companies deal with a significant drop in activity due to the coronavirus crisis. French insurers have been in...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 23, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News
To offset the crushing costs of trying to stem a global epidemic, the World Bank and partners announced the creation of “pandemic bonds” several years ago: the idea was to leverage private capital from Wall Street firms that would help stricken poor...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 23, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health
Weddings are happy events, now hard to find in the age of the coronavirus. They’re being canceled, which means lost work for florists, dressmakers, organists and bands, but not for Eden Denevan, an enterprising wedding invitation designer now offering...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 23, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News
Freight carriers are struggling to deliver goods by land, sea or air as the coronavirus pandemic forces Western governments to impose lockdowns, threatening supplies of vital products including medicines into the most affected areas, such as Italy. While...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 23, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health
by BIBHUDATTA PRADHAN and ARCHANA CHAUDHARY New Delhi: Baby Devi has already lost 80% of her monthly earnings to the spread of the coronavirus — and the worst in India may be yet to come. The 38-year-old mother of four, who cleans homes for a living, lost...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 23, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
Hyderabad: In a bid to assist the insurance industry to cope up with the disruptions caused by lockdowns after the coronavirus outbreak, the insurance regulator IRDAI on Monday, among other things, has provided the much needed relief to the life and health...
