by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 1, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
Mumbai: A study has showed that companies are increasingly entrusting recruitment tasks in the hands of professional organisations for quality talent acquisition even as social media platforms and job sites are still one of the key hiring channels. ...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 1, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
New Delhi: The labour ministry is keen to retain an interest rate of 8.65 per cent paid on provident fund deposits to around six crore subscribers of retirement fund body EPFO for the current financial year, a source said. The apex decision making body...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 1, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News
Washington: US President Donald Trump on Saturday announced restrictions on travel from Iran and advised fellow citizens not to travel to certain areas of South Korea and Italy. Washington governor Governor Jay Inslee also today declared a state of...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 29, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health
Washington: Living in countries with higher levels of air pollution, such as India and China, may be associated with an increased risk of developing kidney diseases, a study suggests. Researchers from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the US...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 29, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Pension & Social Security, Policy
Chandigarh: The retirement age of Punjab government employees will be reduced to 58 years from 60 years currently, a move intended to offer more employment opportunities to young people. The announcement in this regard was made by state Finance Minister Manpreet Singh...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 28, 2020 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Non-Life, Technology
Hyundai's hydrogen-powered 18-tonne trucks are set to hit the roads in Switzerland next month as the South Korean automaker looks to establish a case for its zero-emissions technology in a low carbon world. Invented nearly two centuries ago, hydrogen...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 28, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News
The World Health Organization says the coronavirus isn’t yet a global pandemic. Bonds that insure against just such a catastrophe say that it probably is. The bonds, sold in 2017 by the World Bank to raise money for poor countries in a global...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 28, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Health, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
Global insurers face a hefty bill if the coronavirus forces the cancellation of the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, with estimates of the cost of insuring the sporting showpiece running into billions of dollars. Japan has more than 200 cases of coronavirus, which has...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 28, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life
New Delhi: The government is not going to change farmers'' share of premium on crops insured under the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bhima Yojana (PMFBY), a senior agriculture ministry official said on Friday. The PMFBY, which was launched in February 2016 by...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 28, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News
GENEVA: The World Health Organization on Friday raised its global risk assessment of the new coronavirus to its highest level after the epidemic spread to sub-Saharan Africa and caused financial markets to plunge. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus...
