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04 th  June, 2019:  The World’s favourite Indian, Bajaj Auto, has launched the new Platina 110 H-Gear, their most comfortable Platina ever. Platina as a brand is much loved by customers for delivering superior comfort thanks to its ‘Comfortec Technology’. It has now pushed this envelope further by launching ‘H-Gear’, with additional relevant, first-in-class features. The Platina 110 H-Gear sports a digital console with a first-of-its kind ‘Gear-Shift-Guide’, trip-meter & fuel indicator. The ‘Gear-Shift-Guide’ guides the rider to upshift or downshift, depending on the combination of gear & speed at which the bike is running. This helps avoid snatching by ensuring that the bike is always on the appropriate gear. It has an additional ‘Highway Gear’, a special gear optimised for delivering the right mix of pickup & fuel economy on long distance highway riding. The Platina features an all-new feather-touch gear shift mechanism for easy and quick gear changes. Other significant

MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: June 03, 2019: Bharti AXA Life Insurance, a joint venture between Bharti Enterprises, one of India’s leading business groups, and AXA, one of the world’s largest insurance companies, today said its new business premium posted 25 per cent growth at Rs911 crore in the financial year 2018-19 against Rs731crore in the corresponding previous fiscal period. The annualized new business premium increased 31 per cent to Rs640 crore in the financial year ended March 31, 2019, from Rs489 crore in 2017-18. The company registered 22 per cent growth in its renewal premium to Rs1,164crore in 2018-19 fiscal, as compared to Rs954 crore in 2017-18. The total premium rose 23 per cent to Rs2,076 crore in the financial year 2018-19 from Rs1,684crore in the corresponding fiscal a year ago. Bharti axa life insurance new business income rises 25% at rs 911 crore in fy 2018-19 ‘’We have performed well on all key business parameters in the financial year 2018-19. The overall growth was driven

MUMBAI: May 22, 2019: Bharti AXA Life Insurance, a joint venture between Bharti Enterprises, one of India’s leading business groups, and AXA, one of the world’s largest insurance companies, has been conferred with the ‘Claims Excellence Award’ by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). FICCI, the largest and oldest apex business organization in India, honored Bharti AXA Life Insurance with the prestigious recognition for its customer-friendly claims services, including dedicated claims handler and one of the best claim settlement ratios, in the life insurance sector during its 20 th Annual Insurance Conference- FINCON 2019*–recently here. Bharti axa life insurance winsficci claims excellence award ‘’The FICCI Claims Excellence Award is arecognition about our pledge to provide protection againstthe uncertainties of life and timely support to customers and their families in every possible manner in the hour of need. We have successfully maintained an improve

National, April , 2019 :Max Bupa, one of India’s leading standalone health insurance players, and HDFC Bank, one of India’s leading private sector banks, today announced the launch of ‘digital first’ propositions for the bank’s 40+ million customers, spread across its 5,000+ branches. Max Bupa is committed to provide the best bespoke and comprehensive health insurance solutions and services to HDFC Bank’s customers through a slew of digital touch points like AnyTimeHealth (ATH) machines, deep integration with HDFC Bank Net banking and digital seller apps like InstaInsure.   As part of the corporate agency arrangement with HDFC Bank, Max Bupa provides comprehensive and customisable product variants to the bank’s customers, through multiple digital touch points.The product offerings include Max Bupa’scomplete range of indemnity plans including Heartbeat, Health Companion, GoActive and Health Recharge . HDFC Bank and Max Bupalaunch Any Time Health Machines to distribute health insurance

London/ New Delhi, April , 2019 : CASE Construction Equipment, a brand of CNH Industrial N.V. (NYSE:CNHI /MI:CHI) today gave the public an insight into a sustainable, connected andtechnologically advanced future of construction at the Bauma trade show in Munich,Germany, with the unveiling of its methane-powered wheel loader concept –ProjectTETRA. Jointly developed by the CNH Industrial international design and CASE engineeringteams, this concept is a clear departure from anything seen to date in theconstruction industry. The concept reflects both the increasing importance ofalternative fuels, and demonstrates their viability in the construction environment:the concept wheel loader is powered by a proven methane engine, produced bysister brand FPT Industrial, and delivers exactly the same performance as its dieselequivalent. This is combined with cutting edge styling and an advanced operatorenvironment, which makes extensive use of touchscreen and voice control technologies. Furthermo

Mumbai, March , 2019:  For the fifth consecutive year, a global collaboration across 80 stock exchanges around the world plan to ‘Ring the Bell for Gender Equality’, to celebrate International Women’s Day 2019 (Friday, 8 March 2019). The events are a partnership between IFC, Sustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE) Initiative, UN Global Compact, UN Women, the World Federation of Exchanges and Women in ETFs, to raise awareness about the business case for women’s economic empowerment and the opportunities for the private sector to advance gender equality and sustainable development. NSE joins Global Exchanges in Ringing the Bell for Gender Equality As part of the events, participants are encouraged to make commitments to improve gender equality in their market, encourage implementation of the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs), a joint initiative between UN Women and the UN Global Compact that provides holistic guidance to business on empowering women. NSE invited the women leaders from NSE

The member nations of RCEP bloc must empower their negotiators to adopt flexibility for resolving pending issues coming in the way of concluding the negotiations for the proposed mega trade agreement, Union Commerce Minister Suresh Prabhu said on March 2. The proposed mega trade deal, Regional Cooperation for Economic Partner (RCEP) agreement, is being negotiated by 16 countries — 10-member Asean group and India, Japan, China, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand. “We should empower our negotiators with mandate to show flexibilities and accommodation on outstanding and pending issues,” Prabhu said at the RCEP ministerial meeting at Siem Reap In Cambodia. He said that a lot of ground still needs to be covered this year “We should be mindful of the limitations ahead, given that there are only three more rounds this year at the technical level,” he said. So far 25 rounds of talks have been concluded but the members have yet to finalise the number of goods on which customs duty will be