Besides controlling the spread of the virus, a major task of the WHO team along with their Chinese counterparts was to come up with a standard medicine to cure the disease.
Aseem Chhabra lists 10 of his favourite films that played in various sections at the 74th Cannes Film Festival.
Young Pakistan left-arm spinner Raza Hasan faces a possible two-year ban from all forms of cricket after testing positive for cocaine following a dope test carried out at the WADA-accredited laboratory in India.
Chopra, who Jackson left a voice message just two days before his death, first met the King of Pop in 1988, beginning a 20+ year friendship that brought Jackson peace of mind and contentment, two things he always was sorely lacking.
India should take 'measured approach' with stimulus packages to deal with COVID-19 by limiting interventions to the provision of food, shelter and basic necessities of life for all; forbearance on payments of outstanding loans; and extra provision of working capital including what will be necessary to cover outstanding wages from lockdown period to enterprises.
'My biggest challenge is to keep motivating my staff to do their best without compromising on their safety even as we all strive to do our best for the patients under our care.'
Not to say that India couldn't have handled the situation better, but on average, it didn't do anywhere near as badly as the naysayers make it out argues Rajeev Srinivasan.
Create an internal cooling system to balance out the heat with judicious health choices.
The virus continued to spread its tentacles to new states, including Mizoram.
It is important to approach the belief of people in ancient India's achievements with a sense of proportion, balance and empathy, argues B S Raghavan, the distinguished civil servant.
The Australian immunologist, who cautioned that the number of COVID-19 cases will rise in the coming days, said the earliest time frame for an effective vaccine 'going into large numbers of people' is nine to 12 months.
India's cricketers came under sharp crciticism from sports medicine experts for refusing to sign an anti-doping clause. They felt the arguments put forward for not signing the WADA code are 'silly and absurd'.
Wellness expert Roopashree Sharma tells you how you can use natural methods to improve your health.
The domestic drug industry is concerned over ongoing World Health Organisation negotiations that aim to bring non-health issues, having no direct implications on the safety of a drug, within the ambit of the definition of "counterfeit medicine".
'One out of three phones sold in India is a Xiaomi phone.'
India is in the midst of its biggest crisis since Independence. It is a national emergency and begs to be dealt with. Politics can wait. Lives need to be saved. We need to vaccinate India at a pace faster than any country in the world, asserts Ramesh Menon.
Arun Karthick's Nasir is not the story of one man. It's a documentary on the scary, majoritarian, hateful road India has taken, discovers Mohd Asim.
When you know you've done your best, you are likely to feel more relaxed and confident that you will be safe, says Aayushi Lakhapati.
The government is creating a database of traditional Indian drugs aimed at preventing wrongful patenting of drugs, including medicinal plants. This is being done to prevent misappropriation of knowledge about our ancient heritage and wrongful patenting of drugs," Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Panabaaka Lakshmi said. Speaking at the International Herbal Summit and Expo, Lakshmi said the efficacy of medicinal plants in India needs to be documented.
Kapiva's plans to introduce allopathy-like doses of ayurvedic remedies for the millennial consumer finds traction.
Even smaller companies like Torrent Pharma and Alembic file five to 10 ANDAs every year.
From India's fight against COVID-19 to China face-off, Kovind spoke on several issues during the televised address.
'As of this moment, we have 1,173 ventilators, 2,695 ICUs and about 10,408 plus isolation beds.' 'But this number keeps changing with every passing hour as we incorporate more private as well as government hospitals in our fight against the pandemic.'
President Ram Nath Kovind addressed the nation on the eve of India's 75th Independence Day. Here's the text of what he said:
How much are others responsible for the Trump presidency moving in the directions it has, asks T N Ninan.
In a move likely to influence future drug price regulation in the country, the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has started a process to understand how other countries carry out this function.The authority has already studied the relevant regulatory systems in at least eight major countries. It has also finalised a round-table meeting on April 11 in New Delhi to sensitise stakeholders on the need to have an international outlook.
With only couple of days left for India to open their cricket World Cup campaign against arch-rivals Pakistan, the team had a gruelling training session in Adelaide on Thursday in preparation for the high-voltage contest.
In a surprise announcement in April, Sun and Ranbaxy -- at that time owned by Japan's Daiichi -- declared an all-stock deal to create India's largest and world's fifth-largest drugmaker in an over $4 billion deal.
'The credit for managing Trump should go to Modi.' 'Biden is a predictable and rational person with plenty of administrative experience,' notes Ambassador T P Sreenivasan.
Long queues outside grocery stores, inflated prices, difficulty in getting important items -- these were some of the problems encountered by people in the National Capital Region (NCR).
The drug that it would supply is called Olanzapine, used to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
Australian all-rounder James Faulkner has been ruled out of the remaining of the one-day internationals series against New Zealand, Cricket Australia said in a statement on Wednesday.
Heard of poshitis, text neck? See what you can do to alter your habits and lead a healthy life.
India has flown in relief material, rescue teams and medical supplies to quake-hit Nepal.
The first cycle starts with 1, then 2, then 4, 8, etc, until the infected population jumps to 16,384 at the 14th cycle, explains Devangshu Dutta.
Despite the devastation that has struck this tiny mountain nation, Dr Vani Kori - who volunteered her service in Nepal for 10 days - believes it will soon rebuild itself.
The two agreements were signed during Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's state visit to India in May.
'Terrorism continues to be the overwhelming threat to security and stability in the SCO region and therefore Dr Jaishankar strongly pitched for 'collective action',' observes Dr Rajaram Panda.
With 11 hospitals in India and three more to come up, Columbia Asia is changing some of the rules of the game
