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Dom's Take: India's Vaccine Crisis

As India recorded the highest number of COVID-19 infections in a day on Thursday, April 8, some states are facing a shortage of vaccines, particularly Maharashtra and Odisha. Most of the......

Govt is to blame for vaccine crisis

If the government had paid enough to begin with, or if it had made serious advance purchase commitments that allowed the vaccine producers to mobilise necessary investment, then it is possible to......

'Stray Dogs In Ghettos Is A Health Nightmare'

'It will be an explosion of zoonotic diseases from these places.''People will not be able to live or work for kilometres around these places where thousands of street dogs are kept.' IMAGE: Dog......

How Modi Changed Indian Politics

In the last 11 years, India and the world witnessed what he stood for, what he promised and did not deliver, and what he actually stood for and practised without fearing how history would judge......

'Companies Will Be More Powerful Than Nations'

'If you align your ambition with India's rise, the peak of your careers will unfold alongside the peak of India's power. Businessman Gautam Adani's advice to students of IIT-Kharagpur. IMAGE:......

Why Modi visited Serum's Covid vaccine unit

The PM's visit would signal a strong intent towards making sure India becomes a beneficiary as vaccines become a massively traded commodity in the coming years.Abhishek Waghmare and Sohini Das......

Reports of coal crisis baseless: Sitharaman

Amid reports of the ongoing coal shortage in the country, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman stressed that there is no shortage and termed these as “absolutely baseless”, saying India......

Serum Institute's race to produce COVID-19 vaccine

'People are already sending congratulatory messages. But I have said, "Please don't until the trials are over".'Ritwik Sharma reports. IMAGE: A quality control test conducted at the Serum......

How India narrowly escaped a health crisis

The Philippines launches probe after Sanofi reveals WHO-approved dengvaxia - a dengue vaccine - aggravates symptoms in some cases. The delay by the health ministry in approving the sale of......

Ambani says will provide tech for COVID-19 vaccination drive

As India gets ready to roll out one of the largest vaccine programmes, billionaire Mukesh Ambani on Tuesday said his group is working with authorities to provide technology tools and backbone for......

'There Was Something Beautiful About The Two People'

'In a world which is full of categories, hatred and ideologies, there was this basic decency.' IMAGE: Ishaan Khatter and Vishal Jethwa in Homebound. In the summer of 2020, Basharat Peer, who was......

Lataji to take vaccine this week

Photograph: PTI Photo Lata Mangeshkar, 91, is all set to take the Covid vaccine this week. All other eligible members of the Mangeshkar family have already taken the vaccine. "Bas main......

COVID-19 Vaccine: What Sonu Sood plans to do

'A lot of people are shying away from taking the vaccination.''It's high time we started a trust campaign for the vaccination so that those who are suspicious of the vaccine would realise it is......

Meet India's new sports minister Mansukh Mandaviya

IMAGE: Mansukh Mandaviya won the Porbandar Lok Sabha seat in Gujarat by defeating his nearest Congress rival Lalit Vasoya by a margin of 3.83 lakh votes. Photograph: Mansukh Mandaviya/Instagram......

Mumbai's teen golfer donates for club's COVID vaccine drive

IMAGE: The initiative will cover the vaccination of 350 blue collar employees at the club and its affiliates along with another 950 people from the slums in and around the club. Mumbai-based......

Japan denies considering vaccine priority for Olympic athletes

IMAGE: Only a million people have received the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine since February, out of Japan's population of 126 million. Photograph: Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters Japan said on......

Tokyo Olympic athletes won't be forced to get COVID-19 vaccinations: IOC

'We will encourage athletes that whenever possible they have the vaccination because it is better for their health.' IMAGE: International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach, wearing a face......