by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 23, 2023 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Policy
More than 1.5 crore patients have used ABHA-based instant OPD registration service and more than 50 lakh people are using the ABHA app to manage their health records digitally, the ministry said ABDM’s Healthcare Professionals Registry (HPR) has 2.6 lakh...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 23, 2023 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Policy
Euthanasia and medically assisted suicide, opposed by most religions, sparks huge controversy around the world where just a handful of countries allow the practice and some equate it with murder. The Cuban Roman Catholic Church was not immediately available for...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 23, 2023 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
WHO said over 118,000 new COVID-19 hospitalisations and over 1600 new intensive care unit (ICU) admissions have been recorded, with an overall increase of 23 per cent and 51 per cent, respectively, globally Geneva: The number of new COVID cases increased by 52 per...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 23, 2023 | Data, Eco/Invest/Demography, Non-Life
”Putting several lives at huge risk, 32 per cent of the vehicles on the Kerala roads are currently uninsured. In a bid to address this alarming statistic, the Motor Vehicle Department is on an all-out effort to achieve complete insurance coverage for all...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 22, 2023 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Life, Non-Life, Regulation, Reinsurance
“It is an agreement based on deference: Swiss firms can operate inside the UK under Swiss rules and UK firms can operate inside Switzerland under UK rules,” UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt said. “This is a light-touch, progressive, future-leaning...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 22, 2023 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Regulation, Risk Management
The G20’s Financial Stability Board (FSB) and IOSCO, a global grouping of securities markets regulators, on Wednesday issued tougher liquidity management guidance for asset managers of open-ended investment funds, adding to existing guidance for money market funds,...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 22, 2023 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life, Reinsurance, Risk Management
As many as 31 people have lost their lives in the four districts while a total of 73,574 hectares of agriculture crop area and 35,796 hectares of horticulture area have been affected due to heavy rainfall during December 16-19 Chennai: Finance Minister Nirmala...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 22, 2023 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Data, Eco/Invest/Demography, Policy
Union minister Nitin Gadkari said the government has also permitted retrofitting of existing polluting vehicles into hybrid and fully EVs. The regulations have been finalised and technology demonstrations done successfully, he added. He said the government intends to...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 22, 2023 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance, Risk Management
In total, Maersk said a standard 20-foot container travelling from China to Northern Europe now faced an extra charge of $700, consisting of a $200 TDS and $500 PSS. Containers bound for the east coast of North America will be charged $500 each, consisting of the $200...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 22, 2023 | Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Policy, Risk Management, Technology
Vikram Pagaria, joint director of the mission under the National Health Authority, highlighted that around 2,50,000 health facilities have been connected so far under the ABDM run by the NHA. Pagaria said that under this mission, there is no question of the...
