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Health insurance is a financial arrangement that provides coverage for medical expenses and healthcare services. It is crucial to have health insurance as it offers financial protection against unexpected medical costs, ensuring that individuals can access necessary medical care without facing excessive financial burdens.

(This story originally appeared in on Oct 19, 2023)

AP. In a post on youtube on October 18, Amazon revealed that residents of College Station, Texas can opt for drone-based prescription deliveries, with a promised delivery time of one hour from the moment they place their order. A drone will be dispatched from a secure pharmacy delivery centre to customer's designated address.

Investing.com — The Dow closed lower Wednesday as Nvidia continued to weigh on tech for a second-straight day and rising Treasury yields continued put the squeeze on stocks.

Karnataka is set to get Rs 15,000 crore in investments for research and development (R&D) in the electric vehicles (EV) sector, Industries Minister MB Patil said on Wednesday. The state has so far attracted investments of about Rs 25,000 crore in the sector, across the value chain, he said.

Raj Kundra, recently admitted that facing a very public trial for filming porn did a number on his mental health. Kundra, who is married to Bollywood diva Shilpa Shetty, recently made his silver-screen debut with the biographical film ‘UT 69’. During the trailer launch of the movie, the entrepreneur broke down in tears and requested the media not to target his family.

Bajaj Auto on Wednesday reported that its standalone net profit for the quarter ended September stood at of Rs 1,836 crore, which is higher by 20% compared with Rs 1,530 crore reported in the same quarter last year. Revenue from operations rose 6% year-on-year to Rs 10,777 crore in the reporting period as against Rs 10,203 crore in the corresponding period of previous year. While the profit figure was higher than the ET Now Poll estimate of Rs 1,771 crore, revenue came in slightly below. The company said revenue growth was underpinned by double-digit volume growth, with the sustained buoyancy on the domestic front cushioning the weak, albeit improving exports performance. At Rs 2,133 crore, quarterly EBITDA surpassed the Rs 2,000 crore milestone for the first time, showing growth of 21% YoY. Margin for the quarter came in at at 19.8%, up 260 bps YoY, driven by better realisation and a richer product mix, which more than covered the drag arising from investments on growing electric scooters. The domestic business registered a new peak during the second quarter, on the back of six successive quarters of double-digit YoY growth. This was supported by a broad-based performance, most notably the sustained competitive growth on 125 cc+ motorcycles and the further acceleration of three-wheeler sales that delivered its highest ever quarter. Domestic two-wheeler sales dropped 19% to 5.05 lakh units, and domestic commercial vehicle sales jumped 81% to 1.32 lakh units.

travel inconvenience cover which includes – loss of baggage, passport, flight delay or cancellation, trip delay or cancellation, and other covers associated with your overseas trip. As per Nitin Deo, Chief Technical Officer, Zuno General Insurance, this is an often-ignored type of insurance cover due to a lack of awareness.

₹1 crore to ₹150 crore, cover the period between FY18 and FY22 for payments by foreign parent companies to expats working in Indian subsidiaries of MNCs, sources told the paper. Also Read: Dabur gets GST demand notice of ₹320.6 crore The issue surfaced during audits of local arms of MNCs in various sectors, including smartphones, automobiles, software, FMCG, consumer durables, and cosmetics. Although tax demands for transactions made in FY18 were time-barred as of September 30, demands for subsequent years (FY19, FY20, FY21, and FY22) are being served.

₹750 for poor households and a health insurance cover of ₹15 lakh per family for cashless treatment at hospitals.

health insurance plan. On the whole, it has also contributed to the lessening of stigma around specific body and health issues, albeit in certain privileged circles.

Medical insurance usually comes handy in case of hospitalisation along with miscellaneous expenses. However, when someone is diagnosed with a serious illness that entails a number of visits to the hospital, the usual medical insurance policy may not suffice. So, what should one do? Well, the answer may vary from situation to situation but more often than not, it is a critical illness cover.

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The Basel Committee of banking regulators from the world's main financial centres agreed new rules last December on how much capital banks should hold to cover different types of cryptoassets. On Tuesday, they set out for public consultation how the holdings should be disclosed to investors. «Under the proposals, banks would be required to disclose qualitative information on their activities related to cryptoassets and quantitative information on exposures to cryptoassets and the related capital and liquidity requirements,» the Basel Committee said in a statement. Banks would also be required to provide details of the accounting classifications of their exposures to cryptoassets and crypto liabilities, it said.

Diwali for Group C and non-gazetted Group B rank officials, including paramilitary forces. The Finance Ministry has fixed the ceiling for computing non-productivity linked bonuses (ad hoc bonuses) for central government employees at ₹7,000 for 2022-23.

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Rite Aid’s plan to close more stores as part of its bankruptcy process raises concern about how that might hurt access to medicine and care