Modi calls for reforming WHO at 2nd global Covid summit

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday called for reforming the World Health Organisation and streamlining its approval process for vaccines and therapeutics, and favoured making flexible the......

Full Text: President's joint address to both houses of Parliament

Here's the full text of President's Ram Nath Kovind's address to the joint sitting of both houses of Parliament on the first of Budget Session 2022. IMAGE: A word cloud of President Ram Nath......

Danger grows as Xi made 'Chairman of Everything'

The Chinese Communist Party held its Sixth Plenum from 8-11 November, and Chairman Xi Jinping used this choreographed political theater to further cement his status in the pantheon of Chinese......

China listening, Jaishankar brings up territorial integrity at BRICS online meet

In a major move, influential five-nation grouping BRICS on Tuesday supported a proposal by India and South Africa to temporarily waive patents on Covid-19 vaccines as it held extensive......

A stringent patent rule is latest hurdle for India-UK free trade agreement

Negotiations for a trade deal between India and the UK have run into fresh controversy, after the proposals under a leaked chapter of the deal on intellectual property (IP) are believed to put......

India, Pak bonhomie at WTO blossoms despite fractious bilateral relations

Even as the bilateral relationship between the two neighbouring countries remains hostile, there is growing coordination between India and Pakistan on one multilateral forum — the World Trade......

India ranks 48th in global innovation index

India has become the third most innovative lower middle-income economy in the world. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com India has joined the group of top 50 countries in the global innovation......

Can India still catch the R&D bus?

China has consistently spent more than 2% of GDP on R&D while India's expenditure on R&D has stagnated around 0.7% of GDP.Can our government shore up resources so that we hit the R&D expenditure......

Pele is not part of Indian 'Super Football' event

Amid much fanfare it was announced that football legend Pele would be in Kolkata for the 'Super Football' event, involving Superstars XI and India Dream XI on January 23. However, the organisers......