Full exemption for all health insurance premiums and reinsurance or a reduction in the GST rate from 18% to 5% on health insurance services is likely. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com ......
In Chanda's defence, one can always say, why would the Videocon Group take care of her husband as a quid pro quo to get a loan? After all, the group has taken money from the entire banking industry......
'Our future is in limbo. The government saved us with Operation Ganga; now, they must save our careers.' IMAGE: Himanshu Yadav, 20, hugs his mother Shudesh at Delhi airport, March 2, 2022. He had......
'Is it time to think beyond the traditional questionnaire-based approach in India?' asks Atanu Biswas. IMAGE: People board a train at a railway station in New Delhi. Photograph: Anindito......
The new business premium (NBP) of life insurance companies dropped 21.7 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y) to Rs 30,218.71 crore in December 2024 on the back of a steep fall in business. Illustration:......
Life insurers shifted their focus to selling high-value policies in October as the transition to new surrender value norms, effective October 1, limited their ability to roll out all products in......
Life insurance companies reported a 13.16 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y) growth in new business premium (NBP), totting up Rs 30,347 crore in October, even as the number of policies sold saw a sharp......
'Investment by insurers in the Bima Sugam India Federation is illegal as it is a private limited company.' Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Questions are raised by insurance industry......
'It is imprudent on the part of Indian insurance companies to invest out of the shareholders' fund in a private limited company.' IMAGE: Debasish Panda, chairman, Irdai. Photograph: ANI Photo......