2017

Insurers paid out around $50 billion for natural disaster claims last year, a jump from 2015's $32 billion, reinsurer Munich Re said in its annual review on Wednesday. It was the costliest year for natural catastrophe damage in four years,…
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London: Sweden's experiment with a six-hour work day may be doomed after atwo-year experiment showed that the costs outweigh the benefits.
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Are you looking forward to buy a power bank for your smartphone? Well, this new year sale is the right time as there is 70% off on power banks. Read more.
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State Bank of India (SBI) plans to install 2.5 lakh point-of-sale (PoS) terminals by March and will place an additional order of one lakh terminals next week to meet the demand, deputy managing director Manju Agarwal told FE, adding that…
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Non-food credit growth hit a multi-year low of 5.3% on a year-on-year (y-o-y) basis during the fortnight ended December 23, data released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) showed. This marks a worsening from the 5.9% growth figure clocked…
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Ancient cities had walls and gates to act as a checkpoint for defence, taxation, health, safety, etc. These gates would typically be locked after sunset to prevent unauthorised people from entering, and more important, to guard against a…
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Asking Karnataka to continue releasing 2,000 cusecs of water every day from the Mekedatu dam of the Cauvery River to Tamil Nadu, the Supreme Court on Wednesday said that it will conduct day-to-day hearing on the appeals against the 2007…
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After submitting a concept note on a trade facilitation agreement (TFA) on services at the World Trade Organization (WTO), India is planning to firm up strategy for the next course of action across key issues at the multilateral body.
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With the newly-introduced hybrid annuity model (HAM) slowly becoming popular at the Centre, states too are beginning to adopt the model. Maharashtra's public works department (PWD) is planning to award about 10,000 km of projects in the…
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The Maharashtra government has decided to go ahead with both the coastal road project and the Bandra-Versova Sea Link (BVSL), which will run parallel to each other in the northern suburbs.
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