by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 5, 2019 | Indian News, Non-Life
New Delhi: The government is likely to announce infusion of about ₹4,000 crore in three public sector general insurance companies to shore up their capital. The capital infusion will help them improve their financial health to an extent that the proposed...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 5, 2019 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
NEW YORK: Leading climate science institute Woods Hole Research Center is taking its first run at directly influencing corporate behavior on climate change through a collaboration with global consulting powerhouse McKinsey & Co, Woods Hole told...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 5, 2019 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life, Risk Management
New Delhi: The government will try to introduce the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill in the forthcoming session of Parliament, Union minister Nitin Gadkari said on Tuesday. The Bill, pending approval from the Rajya Sabha, lapsed after the 16th Lok Sabha...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 5, 2019 | Health, Indian News
New Delhi: Wear loose, light-coloured cotton clothes, stay indoors and avoid drinking alcohol, tea and coffee, the government said on Monday in a health advisory issued in view of the ongoing spell of heatwave in parts of the country. "Heatwave can cause...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 5, 2019 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
New York: As Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman prepares her budget, the World Bank reports Indias economy grew by 7.2 per cent in 2018-19 in contrast to the recent Indian Central Statistical Office (CSO) estimate of only 6.8 per cent growth during the period. ...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 5, 2019 | International News, Risk Management
Russian airline Aeroflot has scaled back the number of Sukhoi Superjet 100 flights it operates after one of its planes made a crash-landing last month, killing 41 people, according to data provided by a flight tracking website. Flightradar24 data shows...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 4, 2019 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
New Delhi: India is forecast to overtake the UK to become the world's fifth largest economy this year and projected to surpass Japan to feature at the second position in the Asia-Pacific region by 2025, IHS Markit said. In a report on Prime Minister...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 4, 2019 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
Mumbai: The telecom industry's move towards oliogopoly will potentially impact telecom tower companies through factors like tenancy losses, a report said Tuesday. The number of telecom operators has now reduced to about five from a peak of 15 in 2012, the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 4, 2019 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
More than 200 of the world's largest listed companies forecast that climate change could cost them a combined total of almost $1 trillion, with much of the pain due in the next five years, according to a report published on Tuesday. Even so, the findings by...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 4, 2019 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Life
New Delhi: Laptop brand Dell has emerged as the most-trusted brand in the country followed by automobile firm Jeep and insurance behemoth LIC, the only Indian company to feature in the top-seven brands, according to a report. E-commerce giant Amazon and...
