I-T minister fact-checks Zuckerberg on Lok Sabha poll results

Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw hit back at Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on Monday for making a 'factually incorrect' statement that the incumbent government in India lost the election in 2024......

Covid vaccine to cost Rs 290 to govt; Rs 585 in pvt mkt: Serum

Coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford will cost $3-4 per shot (Rs 219-290) to the government and will be priced at double that rate in private market once such......

India pledges $15 million for global vaccine alliance

India on Thursday pledged $15 million to the international vaccine alliance Gavi, the Prime Minister's Office said.   THE WAR AGAINST COVID-19 The amount was pledged as Prime Minister......

China joins global vaccine alliance; to buy 15 million doses

China has officially joined the World Health Organisation's (WHO) COVAX alliance to equitably distribute COVID-19 vaccines around the globe, ending speculation that it plans to supply them on its......

Bill Gates' $750 mn donation

Bill Gates, chairman of IT behemoth Microsoft and the world's richest man, has donated $750 million to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (Gavi) which helps fight deadly......

Child vaccine: UK, Gates pledge $2.3bn

Britain and Bill Gates on Monday joined hands to pledge more than $2.3 billion to vaccinate over 80 million children against preventable conditions such as pneumonia and diarrhoea in poor nations......

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......

Serum Institute to start phase-2 trials of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine

The institute expects to complete both, phase-2 and 3 trials in India by the end of this year. Pune's Serum Institute of India (SII) is all set to start phase-2 clinical trials of the Oxford......