A parliamentary committee has stressed the urgent need to evolve strategies for development of next-generation vaccines and recommended that the Union health ministry encourage vaccine development......
Ajit Balakrishnan offers a thinking person’s guide. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Last week, I was sitting in the rear seat of my car, deeply immersed in my Kindle, reading......
'Why does a State that sees a national security issue at every turn not recognise the seriousness of the data from sensitive databases being breached?' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com......
'Maybe the State wants to be watching people all the time. But when they are watching, others too may be watching!''The State is becoming more and more secretive while throwing people to the......
A team of experts from the Union health ministry, the Indian Council of Medical Research, the India Meteorological Department and the National Disaster Management Authority will visit Bihar and......
In a significant development, India is believed to have placed a funding request of around $55 million in its first call with the Pandemic Fund of the World Bank, sources said. Illustration:......
The World Bank has approved loans totalling $1.75 billion (about Rs 13,834.54 crore) to fund India's PM Ayushman Bharat scheme and private investment to boost the economic growth.......
It is estimated that around 60 million people are directly impacted by the poultry sector in India. The death of a 11-year-old boy due to ‘bird-flu’, even before the devastating......
'MFs have a combined exposure of Rs 3.2 lakh crore to NBFCs, out of which Rs 1.1 lakh crore matures by September 2019.' "Considerable delays in repayments, and possibly default, are expected from......
The issuance of NBWs by a court also opens door of seeking Red Corner notices against both of the accused from the Interpol. Must Read: The Great Diamond Heist A special Central Bureau of......