COVID-19: 'Good behaviour will reduce deaths'

'We cannot be naughty and expect the government to do good!''We have to behave ourselves and then we can expect the government to support us.''If we are able to protect ourselves well, then we......

Revealed: How India launched its war against COVID-19

'The lockdown was for both: To flatten the curve or more correctly, delay the rapid spread of COVID outbreak, and to create healthcare infrastructure.' Photograph: Yawar Nazir/Getty Images  ......

COVID-19 vaccine: 'You can't give false hope'

'Making a vaccine is no cakewalk where you decide one day, and come out with it in a few weeks's time.' IMAGE: A quality control test being conducted at the Serum Institute of India. Photograph:......

Experts welcome WHO's decision to resume HCQ clinical trial

Terming World Health Organisation's decision to resume testing of hydroxychloroquine as a potential treatment for COVID-19 in its global clinical trial "a step in the right direction", experts said......

Healthcare sector is indifferent

Budget Provisions: Exemption introduced from excise duty on types of drugs and diagnostic equipment required for the National AIDS Control Programme funded by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB......

Are there more IPCC goof-ups on climate change?

Whether it is the blunder over the glaciers or the linking of natural disasters to global warming, the IPCC's credibility has been badly hit. If this encourages laxity over global warming, that......

The DRDO's most unusual lab

During the Second World War, Field Marshall William Slim, commander of the 14th Army in Burma, discovered that the anopheles mosquito was causing more casualties to his men than the Japanese.......

Innovation: Singapore No. 1, well ahead of the US

For anyone interested in working in an innovative environment, the U.S. has long been the top destination. The U.S. has the culture to support innovation: the best universities, the biggest venture......