ICMR doing 3 studies on post-Covid heart attack among young

Sudden deaths have been reported in some young people after COVID-19 but sufficient evidence is not available to confirm the cause, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya told Parliament on......

How Urban Flooding Affects Lives

Year by year, our cities remain defeated in the face of weather conditions, costing us time, money, resources and often lives, observe Amit Kapoor and Bibek Debroy. IMAGE: Parked vehicles......

Top-level bureaucratic reshuffle at Centre, Pant named new health secretary

Senior IAS officer Sudhansh Pant has been named as the new health secretary as part of a top-level bureaucratic reshuffle effected by the Centre on Tuesday. IMAGE: : Prime Minister Narendra Modi......

India's cancer cases likely to jump to 15.7 lakh by 2025

The number of cancer cases in the country is projected to go up from 14.6 lakh in 2022 to 15.7 lakh in 2025, according to the Indian Council of Medical Research-National Cancer Registry Programme,......

Indo-US partnership will help world bounce back from COVID-19 crisis: Modi

Stating that open markets mean more opportunities, Modi said during the last six years the government has made many efforts to make the Indian economy more open and reform oriented. Photograph:......

Will India's Covaxin be world's first COVID-19 drug?

'We need to prove to the world that quality vaccines and R&D are possible in India.' *Photograph: Carl Recine/Reuters. Dr Krishna Ella, chairman and MD, Bharat Biotech, is the man of the moment.......

Why insurance firms are renegotiating rates for bank directors' indemnity

Market leaders in this line of business - New India Assurance and Tata AIG - have begun to reassess the premium on risk exposure of their portfolio in the director’s and officer’s......

An energy superpower? Not India!

At least not soon.Arunabha Ghosh on why India will increasingly become an energy great power, but not an energy hegemon. IMAGE: India has to find its voice, articulate concerns, and navigate the......