by AIP Online Bureau | May 3, 2018 | Indian News, Risk Management
WASHINGTON: India's Aadhaar technology does not pose any privacy issue and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has funded the World Bank to take this approach to other countries as it is worth emulating, Microsoft founder Bill Gates has said. The...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 3, 2018 | Indian News
LUCKNOW/JAIPUR: A severe dust storm followed by thunder showers hit parts of Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan overnight, killing nearly 100 people and leaving a trail of destruction. Houses collapsed and trees and poles were uprooted in the storm that...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 3, 2018 | Indian News
New Delhi: Seeking to improve India's ranking in the ease of doing business index, the government today approved an ordinance to amend a law for the faster disposal of commercial disputes. Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad told reporters here that the...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 3, 2018 | Health, Indian News
New Delhi: In a major boost to expansion of health care infrastructure in the country, the Union Cabinet today approved the continuation of the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY) beyond 12th Five Year Plan to 2019-20. The PMSSY, which is a...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 2, 2018 | Health, International News
GENEVA: More than 90 percent of the global population is breathing in high levels of pollutants, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, blaming poor air quality for some seven million deaths annually. Fresh data from the UN health body showed that...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 1, 2018 | Indian News, Regulation
New Delhi: Picking up a retired bureacrat over the insurers, the government on Tuesday appointed Subhash Chandra Khuntia, 60, a retired IAS (Indian Administrative Service) officer, who recently retired as a chief secretary of Karnataka, as the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 30, 2018 | Indian News, Risk Management
New Delhi: The government plans to encourage whistle-blowers to inform it about suspicious activities at corporates and is working to link Aadhaar details of stakeholders with filings made under the companies law, Union Minister P P Chaudhary has said. ...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 30, 2018 | Indian News
Mumbai: The India Inc has shelled out more for their insurance as the domestic general insurance market has witnessed price hikes- in certain segments like catastrophic and property- and tightening of overall terms and conditions during...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 30, 2018 | Indian News, Risk Management, Technology
BENGALURU: Bringing eco-friendly automotive technologies to India in the absence of a clear policy framework is a challenge, according to Japanese auto major Honda. The company which has announced that by 2030 two-thirds of its production will be...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 30, 2018 | International News, Risk Management
LONDON: After Facebook, another major social media outlet Twitter has now been caught up in the data scandal involving Cambridge Analytica, the British political consulting firm which collected the data of nearly 87 million Facebook users without their...
