COVID-19 second wave: Delays in RT-PCR tests

While there is a shortage of testing kits, manpower and capacities, India does not have other scalable testing options, report Vinay Umarji and Sohini Das. IMAGE: A medical worker collects the......

Who will get COVID-19 vaccine first? Vardhan explains

Union health minister Harsh Vardhan on Sunday said the government has not yet taken a view on granting emergency authorisation to COVID-19 vaccines in India, as and when they become available. The......

India's Feluda COVID test cheaper alternative to RT-PCR, say scientists

More accurate than a rapid antigen test and almost as quick, India's Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats 'Feluda' COVID-19 test that changes colour on detection of the......

DCGI approves commercial launch of low-cost Covid test 'Feluda'

The Drugs Controller General of India has approved the commercial launch of 'Feluda', the Tata CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) COVID-19 test, the Council of......

Is Darjeeling Tea Losing its Fizz?

Scanty rainfall, last year's lockdown, growing competition from Nepal and the disaster of the 2017 Gorkhaland agitation are steadily weakening exports and sales of Darjeeling tea. IMAGE: A worker......

Big drugmakers step in to develop, import test kits

Cadila, Biocon developing rapid antibody testing kits; Eris, Mylan, Gland importing. Indian pharma majors are gearing up to develop or import testing kits for the novel coronavirus as demand for......

Mystery of the missing train

When trains and stations become desirable again, we might have a murder mystery with the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train as a setting, says Bibek Debroy. Image: The origin of railways in India is......

Biz families: Should sons step into fathers' shoes

Who is Sandip Ray? Well, he is a technically sound filmmaker from Bengal. He has made a few Bangla films, leaving no one in doubt about his grasp of the medium and ability to tell a story in......

OTT This Week: Killers. JLo. Spooks...

Detectives, superheroes, biopics, documentaries, it's all there on OTT this week. Sukanya Verma offers some suggestions: SpiderheadWhere to watch? NetflixLanguage: English A short story by George......

'War is a real estate business'

'I am against any kind of violence.' IMAGE: A Ukrainian soldier holds a Kalashnikov AK-12 captured from Russian troops in the Kyiv region, March 31, 2022. Photograph: Serhii Nuzhnenko/Reuters......

10 Satyajit Ray Films You Must Watch

Satyajit Ray would have been a hundred years old on May 2, 2021.To mark the legendary film-maker's birth centenary, Rediff.com brings you a treasure trove of features from our archives. Satyajit......

What's HOT on the OTT menu

Variety is the spice of life and the greatest USP of OTT platforms. Sukanya Verma points out all the wonderful stuff to choose from this week's mix.   BridgertonWhere to watch?......