by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 2, 2019 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Trends, Facts
The good news: The global gender gap has improved, slightly. The reality: Differences in economic opportunity, including pay between men and women, are so vast it’ll take 202 years to fully bridge them, according to the World Economic Forum. The group...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 2, 2019 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Risk Management
New Delhi: The government has proposed a penalty of up to Rs 1 crore on entities that violate the provisions of the Aadhaar Act, with an additional fine of up to Rs 10 lakh per day in case of continuous non-compliance, sources said. Amid privacy concerns over Aadhaar,...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 1, 2019 | Indian News, Non-Life
Mumbai: Generali Group has finalized its agreement to increase its stake in its Indian insurance joint venture with Future Group to 49 percent from 25.5 percent. Through this transaction, Generali has committed up to approximately €120 million...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 1, 2019 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Facts
As the effects of climate change unfold, its impact on business will grow more severe: altered rain patterns will affect agriculture, floods will disrupt supply lines, heat waves will prevent employees from working. If markets are to work well, investors need to...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 1, 2019 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Workplace/Employee Benefits
London: Uber pledged [on Dec. 19] to challenge a U.K. Court of Appeal decision that drivers should be classed as workers rather than self-employed employees, a verdict that has potentially wide-ranging implications for the rapidly growing gig economy and...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 1, 2019 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
NEW DELHI: India remained ahead of China to retain the tag world's fastest growing large economy withstanding several ups and downs, spike in oil prices and global trade war like situation during 2018. Indian economy's roller-coaster ride during the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 30, 2018 | Indian News, Life
New Delhi: For the first time, the Banks Board Bureau (BBB) will be interviewing eight senior officials of the state-owned Life Insurance Corporation(LIC),in the rank of executive directors(ED), on Jan 4,to select the new chairman and two managing...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 29, 2018 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts
India is among the first five countries in the world, the first in Asia and the first among the biodiversity-rich mega diverse nations, to have submitted Sixth National Report (NR6) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the Environment Ministry said...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 29, 2018 | Indian News, Non-Life, Regulation
New Delhi: Over a dozen of candidates, including two CMDS from PSU general insurance industry, are in the race to become a member (nonlife) of IRDAI. The powerful Financial Sector Regulatory Appointments Search Committee(FSRAC) headed by...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 29, 2018 | Indian News, Non-Life, Risk Management
New Delhi: All motor vehicles will come fitted with tamper-proof high security registration plates (HSRPs) from April 1 to protect against counterfeiting, Parliament was informed Thursday. "The ministry has notified … mandating that HSRP...
