Chennai, With mergers and acquisitions (M&A) already dotting the private players in the Indian general insurance sector this fiscal and Covid-19 pandemic hitting, it is going to be the survival of the fittest as more M&A deals are expected to happen next fiscal, said senior industry officials.

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Rawalpindi, More than 150 activists, all from political parties that are part of the anti-government opposition alliance Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), were booked for violating the standard operating procedures (SOPs) implemented against the Covid-19 pandemic, the media reported on Monday.

On Sunday, police

Accra, Voting ended in 38,622 polling stations within the 16 regions across Ghana. The voting process generally went peacefully except for two persons sustaining gunshot wounds after a shooting incident in one of the polling stations in Kasoa, west of Accra as well as the tampering of presidential ballot papers in some polling s

Ramallah, The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has said that escalating Israeli settlement activity in the occupied territories was "a blatant challenge to the international will for peace".

The Israeli continuation of settlement expansion in the Palestinian territories "is a public disregard to th

New Delhi, Vehicular traffic was hampered on Tuesday morning as hundreds of farmers from Uttarakhand and western Uttar Pradesh held a sit-in at Ghazipur entry point on the National Highway-24 that connects Delhi and Uttar Pradesh, as part of their 'Bharat Bandh' call.

The protestors, however, were allowing

New Delhi, The Delhi government has marked nearly 3,000 containment zones since November 1 to contain the spread of coronavirus during its third surge in the national capital taking the total number of containment zones to 6,292.

The government has sealed 2,933 localities between November 1 and December 7 while 2,

Thiruvananthapuram, Over 16 per cent polling were recorded in the initial two hours in the first phase of elections to the local bodies in five districts of Kerala on Tuesday morning, amid fears in many quarters about the impact of Covid on voting percentage.

Polling began for local bodies in Thiruvananthapuram, K

Ayodhya,  The sand layers found below the ground at the Ram Janambhoomi temple site in Ayodhya, will not affect construction of the temple.

"Experts have found sand below the ground but it has not come as a surprise. Loose sand was expected as Ayodhya is situated on the banks of river Saryu," s

Bengaluru, The 'Bharat Bandh' call given by nearly a dozen farmer Associations on Tuesday in protest against the three farm laws enacted by the Centre recently failed to evoke much response across Karnataka.

Except minor incidents like farmer's leaders asking shopkeepers to shutdown their establishment

Amravati, The Left and Congress parties' leaders are participating in the Bharat Bandh (nationwide strike) called by farmers on Tuesday in Vijayawada.

Along with their cadres, a few leaders held their party flags while Congress supporters wore their tricolour 'kanuvas' (towels) as they demonstrated in