COVID: UK variant dominates North India, double mutant in Maha, Guj, K'taka

The United Kingdom strain of coronavirus is currently dominating parts of north India while the double mutant could be found mostly in Maharashtra, Karnataka and Gujarat, Sujeet Singh, Director of......

'UK strain behind current COVID surge in Delhi'

The current wave of the coronavirus pandemic in Delhi is being fuelled by the United Kingdom variant as its prevalence in genomes sequenced in the national capital nearly doubled to 50 per cent......

23% Delhiites affected by COVID-19, finds sero-prevalence study

Delhi's sero-prevalence study has found that around 23 per cent of the people tested had an exposure to the novel coronavirus in the city, which has several pockets of dense population, the Union......

COVID-19 recoveries exceed active cases by 2.95 lakh: Health ministry

India's actual COVID-19 caseload is 3,58,692, while close to 18,000 people have recuperated from the disease in 24 hours taking the the number of recoveries to 6,53,750 which exceed active cases by......

Tobacco exports touch all-time high this year

Tobacco products touched an all-time high of 162,000 tonne worth Rs 1,362 crore (Rs 13.62 billion) this year, according to Narendranath, president, Indian Tobacco Association. Speaking at the......

Pharma in 2014: Deals worth billions and fines worth millions

Even as private firms were busy stitching merger and partnership deals, the government also remained active during the year working on a separate policy to promote and strengthen domestic......

1 in 7 Indian drugs revealed as substandard

More lucrative routinely prescribed drugs are at higher risk of failing quality standards Substandard medicines could be three times more prevalent than the government says, two new studies show.......

AIDS! What's your company doing?

First, the hard facts: India has a population of five million people who are HIV+, and almost no integrated action plan to combat what is being called the biggest killer disease of all......