Six hungry orphan siblings of UP seek death
August 30th, 2012 - 7:58 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, Aug 30 (IANS) Six orphan siblings Thursday submitted a memorandum to the district magistrate of Kannauj, 125 km from here, seeking permission to kill themselves as they had no ... Read more...
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Reliance Life Insurance to hire 5,500 agents on payroll
August 16th, 2012 - 3:38 pm ICT by IANS
Bangkok, Aug 16 (IANS) Reliance Life Insurance Company, a unit of Anil Ambani-led Reliance Capital, plans to hire 5,500 agents on payroll by the end of next month in a ... Read more...
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HDFC Standard Life sells 4,000 Smart Woman policies
July 24th, 2012 - 6:17 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, July 24 (IANS) Private life insurer HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company Ltd has sold around 4,000 Smart Woman policies targeted at women since its launch last month, said a ... Read more...
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Mom pretended to be dead son to collect insurance money
June 6th, 2012 - 9:47 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Atlanta, June 6 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The Fulton County District Attorney's Office have declared that Donna Ellis Gibbs, an Atlanta resident, has confessed to collecting more than $151,000 after committing insurance fraud.She ... Read more...
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Clinton calls Suu Kyi on sanction decision
May 22nd, 2012 - 1:03 am ICT by IANS
Washington, May 21 (IANS) US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has informed Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi about the recent US decision to ease sanctions on the ... Read more...
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HDFC Standard Life to consolidate gains of direct sales force
March 8th, 2012 - 3:01 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, March 8 (IANS) Private life insurer HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company Ltd will consolidate the gains of its direct sales force and bring in better efficiencies next fiscal before ... Read more...
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Two men chop off friend’s hand to claim insurance
February 26th, 2012 - 1:09 am ICT by IANS
London, Feb 25 (IANS) Two men in the US allegedly chopped off a third man's hand with a pole saw so that the three of them could file for an ... Read more...
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Chemplast Sanmar PVC plant shut down for 10 days
January 3rd, 2012 - 11:34 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Jan 3 (IANS) City-based Chemplast Sanmar Ltd's polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plant at Cuddalore has been shut down for around 10 days to check its systems post Cyclone Thane, a ... Read more...
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Undergraduate arrested for murder
September 9th, 2011 - 8:32 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 9 (IANS) A 20-year-old undergraduate was arrested for allegedly committing a murder to fund his education, police said Friday.Mohammad Asif, a resident of Uttar Pradesh's Meerut and ... Read more...
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Cowell wants his body frozen after death
August 22nd, 2011 - 7:38 am ICT by IANS
London, Aug 22 (IANS) Music mogul Simon Cowell wants his body to be frozen after he dies, calling it "an insurance policy".The 51-year-old is planning to have his corpse preserved ... Read more...
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Ecuador seeks to hedge oil prices against drop
July 4th, 2011 - 11:55 am ICT by IANS
Quito, July 4 (IANS/EFE) Ecuador's government is looking at the possibility of acquiring petroleum insurance to guarantee itself a minimum price for its crude oil exports, given the danger of ... Read more...
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Insurers to face challenges, but sector to grow: Survey
June 8th, 2011 - 11:43 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, June 8 (IANS) Low productivity of individual agents, a high policy lapse rate and lack of experienced personnel are among the challenges that private life insurers in India will ... Read more...
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Drunk at wheel? You could drive straight to jail
March 2nd, 2011 - 7:35 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 2 (IANS) You may not get away with just a fine, if found drunk at the wheel. In view of the increasing incidence of accidents on the ... Read more...
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Indian-American diamond merchants re-enact movie heist, held
February 26th, 2011 - 11:50 am ICT by IANS
New York, Feb 26 (IANS) Two Indian American diamond merchants have been arrested on charges of staging a robbery straight out of the movie "Snatch" in which two men disguised as Hasidic ... Read more...
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Mitt Romney goes on a book tour to promote ‘No Apology’
February 2nd, 2011 - 2:39 am ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
New York, Feb 1 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Mitt Romney is on the road promoting his book, “No Apology”.When he was confronted with the irony of condemning the Obamacare when in fact he had ... Read more...
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Insurance regulator to meet, brief life insurers on flaws
January 11th, 2011 - 4:49 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Jan 11 (IANS) The Indian insurance regulator is planning to start the new year with a path-breaking initiative of calling promoters of private life insurers and having a frank discussion with ... Read more...
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WikiLeaks founder ’sends out 100,000 copies of secret files as insurance’
December 4th, 2010 - 11:31 am ICT by ANI
London, Dec 4 (ANI): WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has revealed that he has sent out 100,000 encrypted versions of secret files in case anything happens to him.Assange acknowledged there had been ... Read more...
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Scrapped insurance products bring actuaries in spotlight
October 24th, 2010 - 9:22 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Oct 24 (IANS) The Indian actuarial profession is in the spotlight with more than 500 life insurance products being scrapped by the insurance regulator since 2007 for being opaque or against ... Read more...
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IRDA bans universal life products
October 21st, 2010 - 11:09 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Oct 21 (IANS) In yet another policy holder-friendly move, the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) Thursday banned the sale of universal life products from Oct 22, 2010.The universal life product ... Read more...
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Life insurance had a great fall in September
October 21st, 2010 - 10:46 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Oct 21 (IANS) The domestic life insurance industry had a great fall in new business in September in the wake of new regulations governing unit-linked insurance policy (ULIP) that kicked in ... Read more...
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Australia viewed as ‘dumb blonde’ of the world, says expert
October 14th, 2010 - 5:27 pm ICT by ANI
Sydney, Oct 14 (ANI): Australia is considered the 'dumb blonde' of the world, attractive but shallow and unintelligent, says a British branding expert.Simon Anholt said Australia's one-dimensional image meant that events such ... Read more...
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Divorce Insurance: To help you tide over the heart wrenching time
September 10th, 2010 - 1:19 am ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Sep 9 (THAINDIAN NEWS) A North Carolina businessman has come out with an insurance package that he claims will help people defray the cost of their divorce. The man - John Logan, ... Read more...
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Troy Polamalu’s hair insured for $1m
August 31st, 2010 - 1:38 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Aug 31 (ANI): Head and Shoulders has insured the famous ringlets of Pittsburgh Steelers' Troy Polamalu for a whopping 1 million dollars.The shampoo brand has come up with Lloyds of London ... Read more...
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Grasshopper swarm destroys crops in Kathua district
August 30th, 2010 - 4:52 pm ICT by ANI
By Tahir Nadeem KhanKathua (Jammu and Kashmir), Aug 30 (ANI): Farmers in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district and adjacent areas have been hit by a swarm of grasshoppers.The new species of grasshopper ... Read more...
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Surgeons remove 18 nails from tortured Sri Lankan maid
August 27th, 2010 - 5:05 pm ICT by IANS
Colombo, Aug 27 (DPA) A team of surgeons in Colombo removed 18 nails Friday from a Sri Lankan woman allegedly tortured in Saudi Arabia by her employer, a spokesman for the hospital ... Read more...
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For life insurers, Aug 31 will have 384 hours
August 20th, 2010 - 6:36 pm ICT by IANS
By Venkatachari Jagannathan
Chennai, Aug 20 (IANS) For private life insurers, Aug 31 could be the longest working day this fiscal as they scurry to book unit-linked policies (ULIPs) sold long after the ... Read more...
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State-run insurers not to withdraw cashless reimbursement
August 17th, 2010 - 7:14 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 17 (IANS) State-run general insurance companies will not withdraw cashless health or accidental insurance products and customers can avail such services from the network of hospitals approved by the ... Read more...
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Registration drive for construction worker welfare begins in Delhi
July 25th, 2010 - 1:01 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, July 25 (ANI): In an attempt to promote welfare of the vast unorganised labour force, the Delhi Government has launched a registration programme for construction workers in New Delhi. ... Read more...
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Women freezing eggs in wait for ‘Mr Right’: Study
June 29th, 2010 - 4:05 pm ICT by ANI
London, June 29 (ANI): A new study has revealed that many women in their late 30s are freezing their eggs so that they can wait for 'Mr Right', and not be pressured ... Read more...
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Ordinance declares ULIPs life insurance product (Lead)
June 19th, 2010 - 11:44 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi/Chennai, June 19 (IANS) Delivering a knock out punch to the Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI), the government through a ordinance issued late Friday, has unequivocally declared that unit ... Read more...
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‘The Catcher in the Rye’ may soon be a Hollywood movie
June 19th, 2010 - 7:20 pm ICT by ANI
London, June 19(ANI): If speculations are to be believed, 'The Catcher In The Rye,' an American literary classic, will soon be made into a Hollywood movie.Six months after the death of ... Read more...
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David Carradine’s widow seeks damages from company behind actor’s final film
June 8th, 2010 - 3:06 pm ICT by BNO News
LOS ANGELES (BNO NEWS) – The widow of David Carradine, the actor who was found dead in a Bangkok hotel room last year, is seeking damages from the company behind his final ... Read more...
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Insurance for Goa’s pretty and prized coconut palms
April 2nd, 2010 - 11:38 am ICT by IANS
By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar
Panaji, April 2 (IANS) The humble coconut is to Goans what perhaps the camel is to desert dwellers. So nearly 100,000 coconut palms in the coastal state of Goa are ... Read more...
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Sinead O’Connor takes aim at Pope Benedict over church child abuse apology
March 26th, 2010 - 5:11 pm ICT by ANI
London, Mar 26 (ANI): Irish star Sinead O'Connor has attacked Pope Benedict over his recent apology for the child-sex abuse scandal in Ireland.The singer insisted Pope Benedict XVI's 'pastoral apology' on behalf ... Read more...
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New Healthcare Bill Facts That US Residents Should Know
March 24th, 2010 - 7:45 pm ICT by GD
By Ranjan Bhaduri
Washington, Mar 24, (THAINDIAN NEWS) The healthcare bill that gave birth to a lot of debates and controversies in the US political scene has certain regulations that will affect the ... Read more...
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