'None of the existing vaccines can prevent emerging variants of Omicron'

'We seem to be in a situation where we can do little, and nothing needs to be done anyway.' Photograph: ANI Photo   As India's COVID-19 daily case count dips below the 100-mark, approvals for......

'Pandemic could potentially set us back a few decades'

''The future looks quite bleak unless we ramp up testing and start vaccinating on a war footing.' ' IMAGE: Beneficiaries stand in a long queue to receive the COVID-19 vaccine doses at a......

Vaccine production can't be ramped up overnight: Govt

Vaccine, being a biological product, takes time for harvesting and quality testing and this cannot be done overnight to ensure a safe product, the Union health ministry said on Friday. IMAGE:......

Serum distances from executive's criticism of govt

The Serum Institute has disassociated itself from its executive director's statement that the government began the COVID-19 vaccination of multiple age groups without taking into consideration the......

Covid-19 could be the boost Indian pharma cos need

The western world had largely considered India to be a production hub, and also, a good potential geography for clinical trials, and a big market. But in Covid-19 research, Indian companies and......

How India is gearing up to distribute Covid-19 vaccine

A model being considered is to have a combined cold chain approach - where the agricultural cold chain would be combined with vaccine cold chains. As we inch closer to getting a vaccine for......

What Ivanka will be up to at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit

Young Indian entrepreneurs hope to share some of the limelight too at the Hyderabad event.B Dasarath Reddy reports. New-age entrepreneurs, from Flipkart Executive Chairman Sachin Bansal to......

Sensex, Nifty end at record highs; banks, capital goods rally

The 30-share Sensex surged 267 points to end at 28,335 and the 50-share Nifty gained 75 points to close at 8,477. The markets scaled fresh all-time highs led by a strong rally in banking shares......