Police say the Japanese have given $ 78 million in cash is missing after the earthquake

In the five months since the devastating earthquake, the Japanese police say they have received $ 78 million short of money and values​​, the citizens found in the wreckage and quickly turned in.

Turned thousands of missing wallet contained $ 48 million in cash and nearly 6,000 more volunteers in safes include an additional $ 30 million, said the Japanese police ABC News "Akiko Fujita. Most of the money was found, returned to its owner after the police identification documents in the vaults of the route used.

"The fact that these boxes were taken from the houses were meant to wash away," Saiki said Koetsu Miyagi police force ABC News. "We had to first check whether the owners were found, then, where they were evacuated."

Some portfolios and safes were probably sunk, but the degree of honesty in the wake of the disaster is still impressive.

"The fact that 2300000000 yen in cash was hard to show to its owners, the high ethical awareness among the people of Japan," said Ryuji Ito, professor emeritus at the University of Yokohama, the Daily Mail.

Wind blamed for state-fair tragedy

Indianapolis (aktiencheck.de AG) - The winds that killed one step at night, Indiana State Fair Saturday, five people and injured dozens of fans waiting for the country band Sugarland perform overthrown, was a "godsend" that previously no one could see , the governor and others said Sunday.
The wind was much stronger than in other areas of the show, Dan McCarthy, chief meteorologist for the National Weather Service said in Indiana. He felt the gust 60-70 miles per hour.
Governor Mitch Daniels said that precautions were taken before the storm, but no one could have predicted such a strong gust of wind in one location. Some witnesses said that when a storm was expected to be the rain does not start in the fall when the wind falling to the rigging of the stage into the crowd of fans fear.
"This is the best event of its kind in America is the best we've ever had, and desperately sad that, as far as I can not tell Fluke changing event," said Daniels.
Four people were killed when the scaffolding that holds the lights and other stage equipment fell, and a fifth died overnight in a hospital, Indiana State Police 1st Sgt. Dave Brush said. The county coroner identified the victim as Bigjohny Alina, 23, of Fort Wayne, Christina Santiago, 29, of Chicago, Tammy Vandam, 42, of Wanatah, and two Indianapolis residents: 49 years and Glenn Goodrich 51-year-old Nathan Byrd. Byrd died in the night.
Forty-five people were taken to hospitals, and some can only disappeared, said brushes. Indiana University Health said 12 of 26 people were treated at hospitals still exist, including three in the hospital for their children. He has no information about their conditions.
Dr. Dean Silas, who lives in the Chicago suburb of Deerfield, Ill., said in a telephone interview on Sunday that several people died instantly. He said he was sitting in the gallery and in the property achieved within five minutes. He saw three bodies were already covered with plastic.
Silas said that 75 100 people in the show immediately began to help. It took 20 to 25 minutes to free those trapped, he said. He and others have some of the wounded on stretchers into a makeshift triage area in the gallery.
He felt that it took 10 minutes for ambulances and first attempt to achieve a coordinated emergency medical first.
Sugarland singer Jennifer Nettles has a statement to The Associated Press sent by his superiors and said she saw the collapse of the new summaries "in terror."
"I'm so excited," she said. "Lost Through the pain of those families who are nationals of Driven. Moved by the pain of those who were hurt and the fear of their families. Nominated by the heroism I watched brave souls will go to Indianapolis, is the scene to try to to help raise and save those who are injured. Nominated by the speed and organization of emergency workers who created the sorting and cared for the wounded. "
Nettles and Kristian Bush of Sugarland perform as canceled his show Sunday at the Iowa State Fair.
Jason Owen Sugarland manager referred questions about the incident to officials fair to say in an e-mail, "it was their stage and lighting equipment so it would not be fair for us to comment".
Fair Director Cindy Hoye said it was too early to know who was responsible for the stage and speak to his equipment, because the investigation had just begun, but they had confidence in Mid-America, the company that the Stage belongs. Mid-America do not respond to messages left Sunday.
Concert-goers opening act Sara Bareilles, the stage is finished and the audience waited for Sugarland at the stage when the storm shortly before 21.00 clock you said, the presenter pointed out that severe weather was possible, and gave instructions on what to do if an evacuation is necessary was. But the spokesman also said the concert organizers hope the show would go, and left many fans.
According to witnesses, dirt, dust, rain and wind storm until a few minutes from the exhibition of the main artery of the scene and later collapsed.
Jessica Alsman said the impressive metal framework "type fluctuated at first." Then pandemonium set, as it fell.
"Once we saw wind gusts, the wind in our faces," said Alsman. You and three friends grabbed each other and form a chain.
"You can not imagine - we thought it was going to rain or something," said Alsman.
The position of Indiana in the Midwest has been the subject of weather fluctuations. In April 2006 a tornado struck just after Wind Indianapolis, thousands of people over a free concert by John Mellencamp as part of the NCAA Final Four men's basketball tournament instead.
And May 2004, a tornado hit the south of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to force the start of the 500 miles from Indianapolis and a break of almost two hours into the race.

At least four dead at the Indiana State Fair

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - At least four people were killed and 40 injured when a stage collapsed during a storm Saturday night at the Indiana State Fair, where the group of countries was set to meet Sugarland.
The incident at the fair in Indianapolis, came shortly before 21 clock in high winds caused the rigging, lighting and other devices that in turn keeps fans, many of them in the VIP area near the stage. The wounded included at least one child, WTHR reported.
No one was at the time. Sara Bareilles first part was finished and the audience was waiting to take the stage Sugarland.
Hundreds of concerts, the audience rushed to the wounded, the lifting of the steel frame from them and tend to medical treatment. Rescue workers to set up a triage center in a tunnel under the grandstand.
Witnesses reported seeing many people with head and neck injuries and broken bones.
Indiana State Police Sgt. Rich Myers confirmed the deaths and injuries and said the injuries ranged from "mild to very critical." He did not provide additional information.
Wishard Memorial Hospital, spokesman Todd Harper said the hospital had 16 patients, none of which had fatal injuries. Harper told WTHR youngest patient of the hospital was 7 years.
Concert-goers said one presenter warned warned that severe weather was possible, and gave instructions on what to do if an evacuation was necessary. But the presenter said the same concert organizers hoped the show would go, and left many fans.
The winds that toppled the plant said just minutes after the announcement came fans.
"It was like he was in slow motion," said concert-goer Amy Weathers the Indianapolis Star. "You would not believe it really happened."
Darron Cummings, Associated Press photographer was in the audience attended the concert as a fan, just before the collapse. He said he and his friends sought refuge in a nearby barn, after I the weather radar.
"Then we heard screams coming. We were running up people," Cummings said of the AP.
Witnesses told WTHR that some of the injured were in a VIP area in front of the stage known as "Pit sugar." Witnesses said a wall of dirt, dust, rain and wind from the main road from the fairgrounds, just before the collapse.
"Panic in when they saw, came the Dust Bowl of the Midway," concert-goers Darryl Cox said the television station.
Another person at the concert, said Emily Davis, the transmitter, it flashed and the sky was dark, but it did not rain when the wind suddenly reversed the rigging.
"It was terrible, people were running and crazy," she said.
Jessica Alsman told the AP the imposing metal scaffolding stage "kind of wavered at first." Then pandemonium set, as it fell.
"Once we saw wind gusts, the wind in our faces," said Alsman. She said and reached for the other three friends and formed a chain.
"You can not imagine - we thought it was going to rain or something," said Alsman.
Sugarland tweeted about the incident about an hour after it happened.
"We are all correct. We pray for our fans and the people of Indianapolis. We hope you will join us. You need your strength," the group said.

Effects of liberalization in the insurance industry

Presentation
The journey of the liberalization of insurance markets in India is now more than seven years. The first important step in this direction was the passage of Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority Act, 1999. This changes with the Insurance Act 1983, LIC and GIC Acts opens the way for the entry of private players and eventually the privatization of state monopolies previously LIC and GIC. The opening of the insurance for the private sector, including foreign ownership, has led to various opportunities and challenges.
Concept of insurance
In our daily lives when there is uncertainty, there is a risk. The instinct of protection against hazards is one of the fundamental forces of motivation in determining human attitudes. As a result of this search for security, must be born the concept of insurance. Should have the desire to maintain insurance or protection against loss of life and property, people are promoted to a kind of voluntary sacrifice, to achieve security through collective cooperation. In this sense, the history of the insurance is probably as old as human history.
Life insurance mainly protects households against the risk of premature death of their income members. Life insurance in the modern era also provides protection against risks associated with life such as longevity (including the risk of depletion of the source of income) and the risk of disability and sickness benefits (health insurance). The products are durable benefits (insurance against age). Non-Life Insurance provides protection against accidents, damage, theft and other liabilities. Contracts for non-life insurance companies are generally shorter than in life insurance. The grouping and the security and economy is the essence of life insurance. Life Insurance offers both protection and investment.
Insurance is a boon to economic concerns. Insurance provides a brief relief from a distance. The short-term relief is insured against the loss of lives and protect property by the distribution of losses among the large number of people with professional risk-takers such as insurers. It allows a trader to deal with an unexpected loss and therefore should not worry about the loss. The goal is long-term economic growth and industrial development, by organizing a huge investment of available funds and the insurance industry and commerce.
General Insurance
Before the nationalization of the general insurance industry in 1973, the ICG of the Act of Parliament passed in 1971, entered into force in 1973. There were 107 general insurance companies, including branches of foreign companies operating in the country during the nationalization of the companies were combined and grouped into four subsidiaries of GIC, such as National Insurance Co. Ltd., Calcutta. The New India Assurance Co. Ltd., Mumbai, The Oriental Insurance Co. Ltd., New Delhi, India and the United Insurance Co. Ltd., Chennai and now divorced.
General insurance business in India is broadly divided into the fire, managed marine and various GICs outside the direct manipulation of the air and Reinsurance Company's plan complete harvest, accident, social security etc. CPG and its subsidiaries in accordance with the objective of nationalization spread the message far and the insurance coverage for the weaker section of society strive to offer to distribute new cover design and other non-traditional businesses.
The liberalization of insurance markets
The comprehensive regulation of the insurance business in the Indian Act was in force with the promulgation of the Insurance, brought 1983rd He tried to draw a strong and powerful management and regulatory authority of the Controller of Insurance with authority to counsel to investigate, record and liquidate create insurance, etc. Because of the nationalization of the insurance industry, most of the regulatory functions of the Controller of Insurance accepted and transferred to the insurers themselves, the Indian government in 1993 had a committee of high-power RNMalhotra, former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, to examine the structure of the insurance industry and recommend changes for greater efficiency and competitiveness without structural changes in other parts of the country's financial system is set.
Malhotra Committee recommendations
The committee presented its report in January 1994 recommended that the insurer may, with state enterprises as a company LIC and GIC co-exist. This recommendation was implemented by several factors such as the need for greater insurance coverage prompted deeper into the economy, and a much larger mobilization of resources from the economy, and much more mobilization of resources from the economy to develop the infrastructure to do so. The liberalization of the insurance industry has played at least partly from the financial reserve Great savings in the economy. Recommendations of the Committee are:
o voted increase the capital base of LIC and GIC to Rs 200 crores, half of the government and sold the rest to the general public with adequate reserves for its employees. o The private sector is granted to enter the insurance industry with a minimum paid-up capital of Rs. 100 crores. o foreign insurance companies enter, may float an Indian company, preferably a joint venture with Indian partners. O steps are taken to establish a strong and effective regulation of the insurance business as an independent statutory board on the lines of SEBI. o be allowed a limited number of private businesses in the area. But no company is allowed in the area. But no company has the right to operate in the two branches of insurance (life and non life). o Tariff Advisory Committee (TAC), dissociated as required CPG operate as a separate body sculpture under the supervision by the regulatory body for insurance. Oallas insurance and equally subject to the provisions of the CCG will be treated. No special dispensation given to state enterprises. oSetting a strong and effective body of legislation with an independent source of funding, before private companies in the industry.