A total of about 790 health insurance claims amounting to about Rs 15.75 crore for Covid-19 have been lodged with the non-life insurers across the country till date, said an industry official. Speaking on the condition of anonymity the official told IANS that the Covid-19 related health insurance claims are highest from Maharashtra at about 380 and followed by Delhi (about 140) West Bengal (about 75) and Tamil Nadu (about 51). The officials said about 790 claims have been lodged claiming about Rs 15.75 crore with several non-life insurers.  …

Nifty futures contracts traded on Singapore Exchange (SGX) slumped about 6 per cent on Friday after capping their highest monthly gain in 11 years. The fall came amid sharp declines in markets such as Australia, Japan and the UK. India and most other Asian and European markets were shut. Market players said fresh tensions between the US and China triggered risk-off bets among global investors with safe-haven assets such as developed world bonds, US dollar and Japanese yen posting gains. At 5.10 (IST), the SGX Nifty was quoting at 9,297, down…

You don’t have to be an artist to make great digital art. May 1, 2020 2 min readDisclosure: Our goal is to feature products and services that we think you’ll find interesting and useful. If you purchase them, Entrepreneur may get a small share of the revenue from the sale from our commerce partners. If only given 15 minutes to consume content online, 66 percent of people would prefer to see something beautifully designed as opposed to something simple. It’s a competitive world out there on the Internet and if your site has poor, unattractive design, you’re missing out…

How is everyone coping without sports in their lives? Once you’ve read about the cancellation of all major sports events due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, and seen the reactions from the managers, players, and sports organizations, what is left for the billions of fans across the globe? The world still turns, albeit with less drama, less diversion, and less color in it. For many, a world without sports is monochrome. Perhaps the more pertinent question is: If we only fully notice something like sports when they’re gone, what can this period without them tell us about ourselves and our…

As the nationwide lockdown enters its third month, farmers have been at the receiving end with frayed supply chains, problems in harvesting their rabi produce and a sharp drop in demand as people stay indoors. A disruption in supply chain means that the arrival of commodities across the nation’s main mandis remained a cause of concern. Data from agrmarket.gov.in shows that in April 2020, the all India average wholesale price of major commodities showed a mixed trend as compared to same month of 2019. While the average wholesale price…

Run more effective email marketing campaigns and hit more leads with a verified list. April 30, 2020 2 min readDisclosure: Our goal is to feature products and services that we think you’ll find interesting and useful. If you purchase them, Entrepreneur may get a small share of the revenue from the sale from our commerce partners. An email subscriber list is an essential asset to any company that does business online. Whether you’ve built your email list through paid acquisition or list-building techniques on your site, that list is very likely a core element of your digital marketing strategy.…

The coronavirus (Covid-19) disruption and the subsequent lockdown imposed by the government had a significant impact on the non-life insurance industry’s premiums for the month of March. The motor and health segment led the decline in premiums for the industry as the month of March saw premium for the industry decline by as much as 9 per cent. Motor segment saw a 7 per cent decline in premiums, while health registered an 11 per cent decline in premiums. Credit insurance segment’s premiums declined 42 per cent, while premiums in the personal…

Thirteen shops have been shut and over 40 people put under quarantine in Azadpur mandi the past few days, as Covid-19 spread across one of India’s biggest wholesale markets. What is heartening though is that so far there hasn’t been any major impact on the supplies and sale of fruits and vegetables. On Thursday, some 6,000 tonnes of perishables arrived at the mandi, which is quite near the normal levels. On Wednesday, around 5,000 metric tonnes of fruits and vegetables arrived at the mandi. According to rough estimates there are over…