by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 24, 2019 | Facts, Health, Risk Management
Beijing: Fathers-to-be, take note! Smoking may increase the baby's risk of developing congenital heart defects―the leading cause of stillbirth, a study has found. Congenital heart affect eight in 1,000 babies born worldwide. Prognosis and...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 24, 2019 | International News, Risk Management
New York: A fix to the anti-stall system suspected in October's Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX 8 that killed 189 people in Indonesia is ready to roll out, industry sources told AFP Saturday. Boeing was due to present the patch to officials and pilots of US...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 24, 2019 | Data, Eco/Invest/Demography
Mumbai: Foreign investors have poured in a net amount of Rs 38,211 crore in the domestic capital markets in March so far, mainly on account of improved global liquidity. In February, foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) had put in a net amount of Rs...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 24, 2019 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Pension & Social Security
New Delhi: The government is expecting to cross 1 crore enrolments by April-end under the Pradhan Mantri Shram-Yogi Maandhan (PMSYM) Yojna — a pension scheme for unorganised sector workers, a senior official has said. The PMSYM scheme provides for...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 22, 2019 | Indian News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
MUMBAI: A host of adverse factors including the recent crash of one of the Ethiopean Airlines aircraft, have put an end to the days of discounts for the national carrier Air India(AI), whose insurance renewal cost, at around $28 million, has doubled in...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 22, 2019 | Disaster & Management, International News, Non-Life, Risk Management
Beijing: The toll in the explosion at an industrial park in eastern China climbed steeply to 44 on Friday morning as a number of people succumbed to their injuries. The explosion occurred on Thursday following a fire in a fertilizer factory in a chemical...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 21, 2019 | International News, Risk Management, Technology
Facebook on Thursday admitted that millions of passwords were stored in plain text on its internal servers, a security slip that left them readable by the social networking giant's employees. . "To be clear, these passwords were never...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 21, 2019 | International News, Non-Life
MUNICH: Munich Re has no plans to sell Ergo, its primary insurance arm, and aims to strengthen this business through acquisitions once its turnaround has been completed in two years, Chief Executive Joachim Wenning said on Wednesday. Ergo has been...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 21, 2019 | International News, Non-Life, Policy, Regulation, Risk Management, Technology
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Friday it was seeking public comment on General Motors’ 15-month-old petition seeking approval to deploy a limited number vehicles on U.S. roads without steering wheels or other human controls....
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 21, 2019 | Health, International News, Risk Management
A U.S. jury on Tuesday found Bayer AG’s glyphosate-based Roundup weed killer caused cancer, a blow to the company eight months after another jury issued a $289 million verdict over similar claims in a different case. Tuesday’s unanimous jury...
