Insurance - general
Health insurance: when mediclaim may not be enough
21 Mar 2013
Standard mediclaim policies may look good enough to many people; but they won’t go far in emergencies where long or expensive treatment is needed. Buying a top-up plan is a good way to meet such exigencies, suggests Arun Balakrishnan, CEO, BerkshireInsurance.com
T S Vijayan is new IRDA chief
21 Feb 2013
Exide set to take full control of ING Vysya
24 Jan 2013
Vehicle battery maker Exide Industries, the largest stakeholder in ING Vysya Life Insurance with 50 per cent is taking full control of the insurer for about Rs550 crore
ING exits ING Vysya Life Insurance
23 Jan 2013
Narayana Hrudayalaya proposes health cover at Rs20 per month
19 Jan 2013
Dr Devi Shetty has proposed a unique health insurance cover to over 900 million mobile phone subscribers in the country at a paltry Rs20 per month
Canada's Sun Life and Malaysia’s Khazanah to buy Aviva’s Malaysian insurance JV for $594 mn
17 Jan 2013
No service tax on Bima Yojana insurance schemes
26 Dec 2012
British insurer Aviva sells US unit for £1.1 bn
21 Dec 2012
Canada’s Sun Life Financial to sell some US businesses to Delaware Life Holdings for $1.35 bn
18 Dec 2012
AIG to raise around $6.5-bn via stake sale in AIA Group Ltd
17 Dec 2012
American International Group Inc may raise as much as $6.5 billion from the sale of its remaining stake in AIA Group Ltd in Asia's second-largest block sale ever, exiting a nearly century old business.
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
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HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
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Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
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Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
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