- Sunday, February 23, 2025
INDIAN drugmaker Zydus Cadila said on Thursday (1) it has applied for emergency use approval of its three-dose Covid-19 vaccine that showed the efficacy of 66.6 per cent in an interim study and could become the second home-grown shot if regulators consent. Managing director Sharvil Patel said the company hoped…
INDIA's technology minister has said that US social media giants must obey the laws of his country, where they are doing brisk business. The comments by IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Wednesday (30) follow accusations by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government that Twitter Inc had violated rules requiring it…
THE US medical research agency has said that Covaxin, developed by India's Bharat Biotech in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research, will effectively neutralise both Alpha and Delta variants of coronavirus. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has revealed that results of two studies of blood serum from…
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen discussed a shared interest between the US and India to implement a "robust" global minimum tax, the Treasury said after Yellen's call with Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. "The secretary stressed the importance of partnership with India in the G20 and OECD to seize a…
MORE THAN a dozen ground and mid-level members of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have said that they are disillusioned with the government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic that has devastated the country. Besides, six state lawmakers in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, have written letters criticising the…
FIVE Indian generic drugmakers, including Cipla and Dr Reddy's Laboratories, have said that they would jointly conduct a clinical trial in India for Merck & Co's experimental anti-viral drug to treat mild Covid-19 in non-hospitalised patients. Between March and April, each of these companies, including Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Torrent Pharmaceuticals…
FIVE gang members in India wore full protective gear to cremate a man they had murdered, pretending he died from Covid-19, police said Tuesday (29). The victim was invited to a party by the men, for whom he owed Rs 4 million ($54,000), and suffocated, according to police. The gang…
TOP Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander Nadeem Abrar and a Pakistani national were killed in an encounter in the Parimpora area in Srinagar, police said on Tuesday (29). Abrar, who was involved in many killings, was arrested during the checking of vehicles at Parimpora on Monday (28) and put on sustained interrogation.…
THE US has appointed Indian American diplomat Atul Keshap as Chargé d’Affaires, interim envoy, to India. Keshap, 50, a career member of the senior foreign service, will be departing for New Delhi following the retirement of Ambassador Daniel Smith, the US State Department said in a statement on Tuesday (29). “Keshap’s…
THE US on Monday (28) has announced an additional $41 million assistance to India to strengthen the country's preparedness for future health emergencies, taking the total aid to more than $200m. “India came to the assistance of the US during this country's time of need, and now the United States…
