India is looking for successfully performing covid-19 vaccine candidate all across the world to strike a deal with the best ones. So far, India’s list of possible acquisitions include the under-trail candidates being developed by UK’s Oxford-AstraZeneca and United States’s Moderna-NIAID. Besides, the government is also closely observing the progress of vaccine candidates being developed ...

India will be using a digital infrastructure for the dissemination and inventory management of the novel Covid-19 virus vaccine once it becomes available. It is also devising a fool proof method of procurement including both indigenous and international. This will also include guiding principles to prioritize focus groups. The national expert group on vaccine administration ...

On Friday, The Lancet editorial raised concerns about Indian government misleading its people by promoting false optimistic regarding the current state of coronavirus crisis in the country. The medical journal said that Indian leaders should not ignore or snub scientific evidences especially when the country needs it to deal with rising infection cases. The editorial ...

On Wednesday, PM Narendra Modi in a video conference urged the Chief Ministers of seven covid affected states’ to do a critical evaluation of the 1-2-day lockdowns that few other states have been implementing and the disadvantageous of this on economic activity. He stressed that the states should strengthen their contact tracing strategies to contain ...

Keeping imports at bay and moving ahead with the thought of self reliance, India is planning to boost the manufacturing of certain products. In a virtual conference, minister of MSME, Nitin Gatkari said that India is set to move towards production linked incentives for manufacturing of electronics, medical devices and pharmaceutical products while putting restrictions ...

Indian government is considering reducing the five-year gratuity period to a shorter duration as many labour market experts highlighted that five years maturity limit is outdated and doesn’t sever the purpose of current employees needs. The government is contemplating over shortening the period to somewhere between one to three years. The change in employment market, ...

 In a bid to control the spread of the novel corona virus, state government of Guwahati has decided to give away free pulse- oximeters and a first line of supportive medical aid to all those patients who have decided to stay indoors and observe the 15-day quarantine guideline. The state government has also announced that ...

India’s forests in Chattisgarh are facing the danger of losing their self as Narendra Modi government moves ahead to wipe them out. The Hasdeo  Arand 420,000 acres of forest in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, it is confirmed is sitting above an estimated 5 billion tonnes of coal. There are efforts being made to ...

Turkey, which claims to be the new flag bearer of ‘justice for Kashmir’, has been echoing Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s narrative of the conflict and supports Islamabad’s claim over the Indian Territory. As per the recent Indian intelligence report, which was the second report in last few weeks, Turkey has been increasing influence over ...

On Tuesday, Union Health Ministry secretary Rajesh Bhushan, while briefing media over the country Covid-19 situation and development of its vaccine said no particular drug that  treats corona-virus has been made so far.  As per the government sources three vaccines are in trail phase but would take time to be ready for the corona victims. ...