by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 28, 2024 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Risk Management, Workplace/Employee Benefits
“Over the past two decades, student suicides have grown at an alarming annual rate of 4 per cent, double the national average. In 2022, male students constituted 53 pc (per cent) of the total student suicides. Between 2021 and 2022, male student suicides...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 28, 2024 | Banking & Bancassurance, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Risk Management, Technology
Christopher Waller,Governor,Federal Reserve “The technology-driven payments revolution in India has been enabled by a public-private partnership to build the ‘technology stack’ of digital platforms that has broadened financial inclusion and done so at low costs,”...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 28, 2024 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Risk Management
A new strain of the virus, known as clade Ib, has the world’s attention again after the WHO declared a new health emergency. The strain is a mutated version of clade I, a form of mpox spread by contact with infected animals that has been endemic in Congo for decades...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 28, 2024 | Data, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Non-Life, Risk Management
Despite this improvement, the average resident in northern plains is still likely to lose about 5.4 years of life expectancy if the current pollution levels persist. On the other hand, if the decline in particulate levels continues at the same rate in the coming...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 28, 2024 | Indian News, Risk Management, Technology
“Hello, I am CJI and we have urgent meeting of the collegium and I am stuck at Connaught Place. Can you send me Rs 500 for cab? I will return the money once I reach the court,” the impersonator wrote New Delhi: A day after a post on X went viral, a...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 27, 2024 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Regulation
Rule 170 of Drugs and Cosmetic Rules was meant to prohibit misleading advertisements of Ayurvedic, Siddha and Unani drugs. The Ministry of Ayush on July 1 by a notification, omitted the Rule 170 of 1945 rules New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday paused the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 27, 2024 | Banking & Bancassurance, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Technology, Wealth Management/ Philanthropy
“Our target is to open more than 3 crore PMJDY accounts during the current financial year. The average bank balance per account in March 2015 was Rs 1,065, which has now increased to Rs 4,352. Around 80 per cent of the accounts are active, As many as 66.6 per...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 27, 2024 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Life, Non-Life, Policy, Regulation
Nirmala Sitharaman,Finance Minister “The upcoming GST Council meeting will take up the issue of rate rationalisation. There will be a discussion on the issue. Committee of officers will make a presentation on rate rationalisation,” Sitharaman told New...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 27, 2024 | Articles, Banking & Bancassurance, Eco/Invest/Demography, Life, Non-Life, Policy, Technology
PMJDY, the world’s largest successful mission has already crossed the 53 crore beneficiaries mark Through PMJDY, one can avail benefits of multiple schemes via Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT). They include Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana (PMJJBY), Pradhan Mantri...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 27, 2024 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Policy, Regulation, Workplace/Employee Benefits
The plan aims to curtail “human-to-human transmission of mpox through coordinated global, regional, and national efforts”.The plan spans the six-month starting September 2024-February 2025, and envisions a $135 million funding, the WHO said. Outside of Africa, Clade...
