by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 25, 2023 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Technology
The deliberations follow Ant affiliate Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s sale of its stake in Paytm, as the e-commerce giant pared back investments in India amid growing geopolitical tensions. Ant’s sale would be for technical and not political reasons, the people added...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 25, 2023 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
Temperatures have been as much as 11C above normal in some regions in the past week and prompted the India Meteorological Department to advise farmers to check wheat and other crops for signs of heat stress The unusually early onset of hotter weather — and forecasts...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 25, 2023 | Data, Eco/Invest/Demography
The Prime Minister also highlighted that the Budget focuses on agri-tech startups and an accelerator fund too has been proposed to create new funding avenues for them He observed that the number of startups in the agriculture sector has increased to more than 3,000...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 25, 2023 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Regulation
Coming out with a consultation paper on the subject, the markets regulator said the changes are being proposed keeping in mind the interest of unit holders and the structural vulnerabilities associated with absence of a sponsor for Real Estate Investment Trusts...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 25, 2023 | Facts, Workplace/Employee Benefits
Currently, the top four things which employers surveyed are doing are offering the same salary to male and female employees for the same job role, offering the same incentives to male and female employees, zero tolerance for sexual harassment and gender discrimination...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 25, 2023 | Banking & Bancassurance, Data, Eco/Invest/Demography
The micro credit portfolio for all the lenders combined together stood at Rs 2.56 lakh crore in the year-ago period, and Rs 3.04 lakh crore at the end of the preceding September quarter, according to data collected by Sa-Dhan, an association of impact finance...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 25, 2023 | Health, Indian News, Risk Management, Technology
, Vasant Narasimhan,Chief Executive Officer,Novartis ”I think the next step is when you think about how we generate data and how protected that is in regulatory filings. India does not have regulatory data protection,” he said replying to a query....
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 24, 2023 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Risk Management
China is seeking to rein in the influence of the US-linked global audit firms and ensure the nation’s data security, as well as to bolster the local accounting industry, the people said. . Chinese authorities have urged state-owned firms to phase out using the four...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 24, 2023 | International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
In the weeks after the war began, some 2,000 crew members were caught in the crossfire on ships in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. Safe corridors helped reduce that number in the months that followed. But the total remaining stands at an estimated 331 seafarers on...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 24, 2023 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins said there had been a nine-fold increase in government spending in the 2021-22 fiscal year on helping farmers cope with floods, storms and drought. The number of weather events that require emergency road work more than doubled from an...
