by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 30, 2019 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts
New Delhi: The total tree and forest cover in the country increased by 5,188 square kilometer in the last two years, said the India State of Forest Report 2019 which was released on Monday by Union Minister Prakash Javadekar. The tree cover, which refers...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 30, 2019 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Life
China’s big bang opening of its $45 trillion financial industry begins in earnest next year — a step-by-step affair that’s unfolding just as economic strains threaten the promised windfall luring in global firms. Starting with its insurance...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 30, 2019 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life
A Chinese Court has sentenced the scientist who claimed to be behind the world’s first gene-edited babies to three years in prison for illegal medical practice, state media reported. He Jiankui, who shocked the scientific community last year by...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 29, 2019 | Data, Eco/Invest/Demography
New Delhi: Top 50 corporates in the country have reduced debt by Rs 59,600 crore in the first half of this fiscal as part of their strategy to deleverage their balance sheet, according to government sources. This has some bearing on the credit growth of the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 29, 2019 | Data, Eco/Invest/Demography
New Delhi: Marking a major upswing in fundraising activities, Indian companies garnered Rs 8.7 trillion from domestic and overseas markets in 2019 — up 20 per cent from the previous year — with debt instruments remaining the most preferred route for...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 29, 2019 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
New Delhi: India is expected to overtake Germany to become fourth-largest economy in 2026 and Japan to become third largest in 2034, according a recent report by the UK-based Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR). It further said India is...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 29, 2019 | Banking & Bancassurance, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Risk Management
Mumbai: The Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation has received a total claim of about Rs 14,100 crore in case of defaulting co-operative banks amid massive scam at the now-crippled Punjab & Maharashtra Cooperative Bank, according to the RBI....
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 29, 2019 | Indian News, Non-Life, Regulation
Mumbai: Reliance Capital, part of Anil Ambani-led Reliance Group, on Sunday said the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India(Irdai) has cancelled the 100 per cent pledge enforcement of Reliance General Insurance Company Ltd's (RGICL)...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 29, 2019 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Risk Management
New Delhi: The Delhi Police has filed an FIR against a private company, on a complaint by the Defence Ministry, for allegedly not returning a database containing personal information of 45-lakh ex-servicemen after it completed a contract for ECHS smart cards,...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 29, 2019 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
New Delhi: The enactment of two key legislations, one aimed at ushering in mega reforms in the medical education sector and the other banning e-cigarettes were the major highlights of the Health Ministry in the outgoing year. In a huge step towards...
