Covid: Parl panel stresses swift strategy evolution for next-gen vaccines

A parliamentary committee has stressed the urgent need to evolve strategies for development of next-generation vaccines and recommended that the Union health ministry encourage vaccine development......

'This is a much more sophisticated Emergency'

'Where you change the law and then say, we are following the law.''The fact is, the law is not meeting any international standards.''How can you call UAPA or PMLA a law when you are guilty until......

Government Cracks Down On FCI Racket

'The corruption charges in FCI are not the first and won't be the last.' Kindly note the image has only been published for representational purposes. Photograph: Amit Dave/Reuters A few weeks ago,......

China flaunts French connection to Wuhan lab

China on Thursday said the bio-lab in Wuhan, which is in the eye of storm in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, is a Sino-French cooperation project with its staff trained in France, even as it......

US-based research firm alleges 'brazen' fraud by Adani; company calls it malicious, baseless

US-based Hindenburg Research says the Adani Group has engaged in a brazen stock manipulation and accounting fraud scheme over the course of decades. Photograph: Amit Dave/Reuters Well-known US......

How safe are India's electric scooters?

The government-appointed expert committee, which probes incidents of Ola Electric’s S1 Pro and Okinawa vehicles catching fires, has added the latest case of fire involving PureEV electric......

VW scandal: Germany orders probe into new revelations

Germany has ordered a probe into new allegations that the country's largest automaker Volkswagen had not only manipulated the emissions test results of over 11 million diesel cars sold around the......

Why are electric two-wheelers in India catching fire?

Dubious chargers, poor battery placement and faulty wires are some of the culprits. India’s safety ecosystem is a black hole. Rigorous testing is needed for Indian conditions — beset......

Hammer thrower Rachna Kumari banned for 12 years

Photograph: Kind Courtesy SAI AFI Top Indian hammer thrower Rachna Kumari was on Tuesday banned for 12 years for failing multiple dope tests by the international federation's Athletics Integrity......

World No 1 Sinner fires trainer, physio amid doping row

'Now, because of these mistakes, I'm not feeling that confident to continue with them. I was struggling a lot in the last months. I was waiting for the result. The only thing I need right now is......

National Anti-Doping Agency can't dope test Indian cricketers: BCCI

IMAGE: BCCI CEO Rahul Johri, left, with COA chief Vinod Rai. Photograph: BCCI In a stern response to India's anti-doping body National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA), the Board of Control for Cricket......

China's Olympic champ Sun Yang BANNED for eight years

IMAGE: Sun Yang questioned the credentials of the testers before members of his entourage smashed the vials containing his blood samples with a hammer. Photograph: Maddie Meyer/Getty Images nd......

WADA suspends National Dope Testing Laboratory, Ministry to appeal

The WADA investigation found that the sample analysis methods of the NDTL were not upto the mark. The NDTL can appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) in Lausanne in the next 21 days.......