Senior citizens account for 50% of India's COVID-19 deaths

Nearly half of all coronavirus patients in the country have been cured, taking the recovery rate to over 48 per cent, reports Ruchika Chitravanshi IMAGE: An elderly man walks with a kid outside......

Self-use Covid-19 testing kits to be available at stores for Rs 250

Pune’s Mylab Discovery Solutions’ CoviSelf, which gives results in 15 minutes, gets ICMR nod, reports Sohini Das In what can be a paradigm shift in the way Indians test themselves for......

Prices of key Covid bulk drugs shoot up as demand rises

The API of Paracetamol, a fever and pain medication, has grown 25 per cent from Rs 450-480 per kg in December 2020 to Rs 580-600 per kg in April. When compared to the pre-Covid prices of December......

Bharat Biotech plans to supply 90 million Covaxin doses a month by Dec

Bharat Biotech is targeting one billion doses in annual production. This is from its own sites alone, reports Sohini Das. India’s first indigenous Covid-19 vaccine to be approved, Bharat......

GST waiver for rare disease drugs brings little relief: pharma sector

India’s pharma sector on Wednesday said the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council’s decision to exempt tax on rare diseases drugs is unlikely to benefit the population unless the waiver......

Why India's gig workforce is still outside purview of basic benefits

If you have seen Zwigato, Param Kumar’s story will sound familiar. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Laid off from his job as a repairman at a Gurugram-based water purifier provider, he......

Say goodbye to the national health policy

Private health insurance in India today is riddled with inefficiency and corruption, notes Subir Roy The draft national health policy, issued by the Union ministry of health and family welfare late......

In times of COVID, how travel firms plan to generate revenue

While Yatra is building a digital services platform to offer skill development training and sourcing solutions to corporate, Thomas Cook has partnered ICMR-accredited labs to offer Covid-19......