The subsequent changes in the social, geopolitical, and economic balance in the Indo-Pacific region in the last year have brought the recent Prime Minister Narendra Modi meeting with the US President Joe Biden. This first in-person meet of the Quad Summit will be reviewing the vaccine initiatives and the spiking global issues of cyber security, ...

Tata is planning to tie up with the American pharmaceutical company Moderna to bring in the Covid-19 vaccine. Moderna has developed one more candidate of the vaccine that guarantees comparatively lower efficacy levels in comparison to the other vaccine candidates.  For this, Indian giant Tata will be putting its healthcare unit Tata Medical and Diagnostics ...

India has helped push China back as its generous gesture of donating the indigenously done Astra Zeneca Covid-19 vaccine is getting praises from its South Asian patrons.  India has sent off a supply manufactured by the Serum Institute of India. Supplies have started to be sent to the Maldives, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Nepal. Myanmar and ...

Reduction Of Infectious Cases: The efficacy of the Covid-19 vaccine could be affected if the Covid-19 virus infections come down, confirms official reports. The researchers are stating that it would be difficult for them to test the vaccine in its third phase. This is primarily for the other vaccine candidates being developed and could delay ...

Domestic Coronavirus Vaccine: Keeping his promise of making India self-reliant, PM Narendra Modi expressed his joy in announcing two homemade Corona virus vaccines would be made available to public soon.  Speaking on the virtual inauguration of the 16th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas convention, Modi addressed the nation and expressed his joy over things that happened in ...

Indian Vaccine Export: Black marketing of the Covid-19 vaccine might not trouble India after all. Recent reports confirm that the Indian vaccine maker Serum Institute CEO Adar Poonawalla has been strictly told that the Indian government approved Astra Zeneca Oxford vaccine will not be available into the private market for several months, after it is released ...

PM Modi invites UK PM: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has extended a formal invitation to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to be the chief guest at the 2021 Republic Day celebrations in India.  As per media reports, the two leaders held a telephonic conversation on November 27 when PM Modi invited the UK Prime Minister ...

Health Minister: On Monday, Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan relayed that Indian population can avail Covid-19 vaccine next year by March and April. He also said that the Union Government has planned to make the vaccine available and administered to over 25 crore people in India by July and August next year.  Dr. Harsh ...

Serosurvey: By Friday morning India had crossed 93 lakh mark of Covid-19 cases and added 43,082 new cases in 24 hours. Death tally reached 1,35,715 with 492 new fatalities being added. Recovered patients have reached 87.18 lakh tally.  ICMR (Indian Council of Medical Research) conducted a second national serosurvey that shows over 70% of Indian ...

Zomato will no longer charge commission for takeaway service: On Wednesday, the food delivery company, Zomato decided that it would no longer charge commission for its takeaway service from its partner restaurants. The company took the decision to help restaurants ramp up their sales and recover faster from the ongoing financial crisis brought upon by ...