by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 19, 2018 | International News
Being on an airplane more than six miles in the air when an engine blows up and sends shrapnel through a window is an experience so scary that aviation lawyers say it’s not just the family of the woman killed on a Southwest Airlines Co. flight this week...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 19, 2018 | Indian News, Risk Management
New Delhi: The new data protection law will be finalised soon, IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said today, asserting that India must strike a fine balance between data availability, innovation and privacy issues. The country is making all out efforts to...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 19, 2018 | Articles, Risk Management
New Delhi: As the proverbial Indian summer sets in and taps dry up across large swathes of the country, India faces an acute shortage of safe and sustainable water, specifically groundwater, a crisis that will exacerbate with factors like indiscriminate use and...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 19, 2018 | Indian News, Technology
Mumbai:: Coverfox.com, an online broking firm. has raised USD 22 Mn in a Series C funding from a clutch of investors led by IFC, a member of the World Bank Group; Transamerica; and other existing investors.IFC itself has invested up to...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 19, 2018 | Interviews
How do you see the liability risks scenario in the Asian economies? The general liability risks scenario for India is viewed as low. However, this can be deceiving if applied across all of liability exposures as certain exposures at a primary level such as...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 18, 2018 | Facts, Technology
Toyota Motor Corp. plans to start selling U.S. vehicles that can talk to each other using short-range wireless technology in 2021, the Japanese automaker said on Monday, potentially preventing thousands of accidents annually. The U.S. Transportation...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 18, 2018 | International News
Facebook Inc. may have to pay a real price for claims it invaded users’ privacy: billions of dollars. A federal judge ruled Monday that millions of the social network’s users can proceed as a group with claims that its photo-scanning technology violated an...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 18, 2018 | Data
The top four Indian cities are today 149 per cent more congested than comparable cities in Asia and the country is losing over $22 billion a year in peak traffic hours compared to travel time during non-peak hours in those cities, an Uber-commissioned study revealed...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 18, 2018 | Indian News
Mumbai: HDFC Life, which has seen its total premium growing by 21 per cent to Rs 235.6 billion,has recorded a 24 per cent jump in its profit after Tax (PAT) to Rs11.1 billion during 2017-18. The company's insurance profit (policyholder...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 18, 2018 | Indian News, Pension & Social Security
Mumbai: Showing a substantial pick-up, the total assets under management(AUM) of the pension fund players – operating in the National Pension System (NPS ) and as regulated by the the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA)- have gone up...