by AIP Online Bureau | May 12, 2019 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
Bhubaneswar: The death toll in Odisha due to Cyclone Fani mounted to 43 on Saturday, even as people staged a road blockade and assaulted a state official in protest against water shortage and power cuts in the coastal belt ravaged by the severe storm a...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 12, 2019 | Data, Eco/Invest/Demography, Intermediaries, Technology
Richest Indian Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries entry into online retailing will help expand the current 15,000 digitised retail stores to over 5 million by 2023, a study of Bank of America Merrill Lynch said. As much as 90 per cent of...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 12, 2019 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
Washington: 'Modicare' significant step towards universal health coverage in India: US think tankIndia's ambitious health insurance scheme, Ayushman Bharat, marks a significant step towards universal health coverage but the government should...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 12, 2019 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
Mumbai: Reversing their three-month buying streak, foreign investors pulled out a net Rs 3,207 crore from the Indian capital markets in the first seven trading sessions of May amid the US-China trade tensions and uncertainty over the election results. ...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 11, 2019 | International News, Reinsurance, Technology
NEW YORK and TEL AVIV: Israel, May 10, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Curv, the cryptography pioneer securing the digital economy, announced a new partnership with Munich Re, one of the world's leading providers of reinsurance, to provide insurance...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 11, 2019 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Risk Management
PARIS: Leading Western industrial powers will for the first time jointly simulate a major cross-border cyber security attack on the financial sector next month, French officials said on Friday. The exercise, organized by the French central bank under...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 11, 2019 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Risk Management
LONDON/DUBAI: Iran could target U.S. commercial ships including oil tankers, the U.S. Maritime Administration said on Friday, as a senior Iranian cleric said a U.S. Navy fleet could be “destroyed with one missile.” In the latest tense exchange...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 10, 2019 | Banking & Bancassurance, Indian News, Life
Mumbai: State run Bank of India(BoI) on Friday said, it plans to sell its 25.05 per cent stake in its decade old life insurance venture joint venture Star Union Dai-ichi Life Insurance(SUD). In its request for proposal (RFP), the bank said it is...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 9, 2019 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Data, Eco/Invest/Demography
NEW DELHI: India needs faster implementation of roof-top solar projects to meet the 175 gigawatts of renewable energy target by 2022, a report has said. The country has set an ambitious target of installing 175 GW of renewable energy capacity by...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 9, 2019 | Disaster & Management, International News, Technology
From a cramped living room in Brooklyn, New York, a handful of young computer nerds has developed a new way to use technology to help save lives in natural disasters. They have designed tiny electronic nodes inside baseball-sized rubber casings that...
