India

With two vaccines against coronavirus disease (Covid-19) already getting emergency use authorisation (EUA) in India, recruiting trial subjects is likely to become difficult for the companies next in line. India’s apex drug regulator approved Serum Institute of India’s Covishield vaccine and Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin at the beginning of the year. The companies […]

A senior Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO) scientist Tapan Misra, who has claimed that he was poisoned over three years ago, on Wednesday told news agency ANI “someone definitely wanted to do some harm to the space agency.” Misra, who alleges he was given arsenic trioxide on May 23, 2017, during a […]

Balram Bhargava, chief of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), said on Tuesday that Bharat Biotech’s Covid-19 vaccine has been cleared in the clinical trial mode, which means consent of participants has to be taken. He was responding to the questions being raised on the clearance given to Covaxin. “Permission […]

India on Wednesday became the third country to record 1.5 lakh fatalities from the coronavirus disease (Covid-19). In the latest update shared by the Union home ministry, the country recorded 264 fresh fatalities in the last 24 hours which took the death toll to 1,50,114. According to Worldometers, United States […]

With 13 more people testing positive for the new UK variant of Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes Coronavirus disease (Covid-19), the total number of UK returnees having tested positive for the mutant virus in the country has reached 71, the Centre has announced. The results are based on the genome sequencing of positive […]

A day after Bharat Biotech chairman and managing director Krishna Ella hit out at Serum Institute of India (SII) chief executive officer Adar Poonawalla for calling Covaxin, their anti-Coronavirus disease (Covid-19) vaccine, safe like water, the companies on Tuesday issued a joint statement saying they had pledged to ensure a […]

The Punjab and Haryana high court on Tuesday issued notices to Punjab and the Centre in response to Reliance Jio’s plea seeking action against those involved in damaging its infrastructure and other properties in the state amid the agitation against the three farm laws enacted in September. The petition said the […]

Professor Brij Gopal (76), former Jawaharlal Nehru University Professor and noted river ecologist, passed away in Delhi following a heart attack on Monday. He conceptualised the river regulation zone (RRZ) on the lines of the coastal regulation zone (CRZ) which would offer legal protection to river floodplains from various activities which […]

With 20 more people testing positive for the new UK variant of Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes coronavirus disease (Covid-19), the total number of UK returnees having tested positive for the mutant virus in the country has reached 58. The results are based on the genome sequencing of positive samples […]

Thousands of farmers, who are have been protesting at the borders of Delhi, on Tuesday faced another day of severe cold and rains as they remained firm on their demands for the repeal of the three farm laws and legal backing for minimum support price (MSP). The seventh round of […]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday inaugurated the natural gas pipeline from Kerala’s Kochi to Mangaluru in Karnataka via video conferencing. In an earlier tweet, Modi called it a futuristic project that he said will positively impact many people. The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said in a statement the 450km […]

The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the road for the Central Vista project and allowed the government to go ahead with its construction. The top court was hearing a slew of petitions that questioned the lack of transparency and objectivity in awarding clearances to the project by the Government and […]

Mass bird deaths in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh have prompted authorities to take remedial measures, issue alerts, and enhance surveillance, officials in the two states said. Officials said 175 crows and other birds were reported dead across Rajasthan on Monday alone. In neighbouring Madhya Pradesh, over 500 crows have died over the […]

India’s tally of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) climbed to 10,356,844 after 16,375 new cases and 201 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours, according to the Union ministry of health and family welfare on Tuesday. There has been a slight dip in the number of infections and fatalities between […]