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TREND | 08 Feb 2021

Cover for gig workers: Amazon, others pledge Rs 500 crore to proposed social security fund

Economic Times

The labour ministry has finalised the scheme for gig workers under the Employees' State Insurance Corporation, which will be announced alongside the rollout of the Social Security Code.

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TREND | 07 Feb 2021

Covid-19, other concerns affected China's BRI projects in 2020: Report

Business Standard

About 15 Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects worth over USD 2.4 billion ran into trouble last year, according to a London-based think tank report.The Overseas Development Institute (ODI) said in a report titled 'China navigates its Covid-19 recovery - outward investment appetite and implications for developing countries' that the overall figure could be higher of all the setbacks to delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported.According to the report, China Export & Credit Insurance Corporation (Sinosure) was "greatly frustrated" by Zimbabwe's failure to pay a USD 10 million commitment fee for the Kunzvi Dam electricity project, contracted to Sinohydro. The report said the Zimbabwean government was understood to already owe a substantial debt to Sinosure.Furthermore, the study tracked BRI projects between January and November last year and found several projects affected by delays due to COVID-19 as Myanmar and Nigeria closed their

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TREND | 06 Feb 2021

ICICI Lombard gets nod to open international financial services centre unit

Business Today

The offshore unit will enable ICICI Lombard to harness new opportunities in direct insurance and reinsurance areas

ICICI Lombard gets approval to open IFSC unit in Gujarat's Gift city

Business Standard | 05 Feb 2021

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TREND | 03 Feb 2021

IRDAI frames norms for standard vector borne disease-specific health cover

Business Line

The insurance regulator has announced guidelines for a standard vector borne disease-specific health insurance product.According to the guidelines rea

IRDAI frames norms for standard vector borne disease-specific health cover

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TREND | 03 Feb 2021

FDI hike: Prudential, other global insurers likely to hike stake in Indian JVs

Economic Times

I see several foreign players taking this opportunity to hike stake, said Ashish Vohra, CEO of Reliance Nippon Life Insurance. He cited two possible reasons either the domestic promoter is looking to exit, or there are profitability or solvency pressures.

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TREND | 02 Feb 2021

Investor Charter' likely to find place in SEBI, IRDAI regulatory framework

Business Line

High-level group to work on single securities market code: Tarun Bajaj

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TREND | 02 Feb 2021

LIC's pension and group schemes fetch over 1-lakh crore of premium income

Business Line

Our BureauLife Insurance Corporation of India's pension and group schemes vertical that looks after group schemes and superannuation business has cloc