Are you ready to pay lifetime insurance premium for your vehicle at one go? Most of you may say yes as it saves yearly hassle. The Madras High Court has observed that vehicle-owners be made t
Savings will be taxed so will be spending. From Monday most of the services one buys will attract enhanced service tax of 14% and TDS (tax deducted at source) is going to charged on all kinds of FD
Almost 54% employees are always under financial stress and spend time thinking about personal financial issues at work, impacting productivity at the workplace. There is also the issue of mis
Should health insurance include the cost of medicine? That is the question raised by a recent study on India which seeks to measure the financial burden of cardiovascular diseases on people.
The budgetary allocation for health has increased by 11.5 percent this year. It has increased to Rs 52,800 crores in 2018-19 from Rs 47,353 in 2017-18. Government in the budget 2018
After the liberalisation of the insurance industry in 2000, private firms (mostly in partnerships with foreign firms) have readily taken to the sector. Till FY18 there were 23 private firms in the
India’s biggest ever public issue of shares – and 11th largest in the world – by an insurer, Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) will open on May 4 and close on May 9. It wi
IRDAI, in an advisory, has called upon all insurers to check their IT systems for vulnerabilities and take necessary steps to protect the policyholders’ data. The insurance regulatory body ha
An insurance policy cannot be changed at the whims and fancies of the insurance company, noted consumer rights advocate Jehangir Gai has said, against the backdrop of an increasing number arbitrary
Taking note of steep rise in health insurance premiums that senior citizens are compelled to pay, IRDAI has directed all general and health insurers offering indemnity based individual health produ