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India has developed first DNA vaccine for COVID-19: Modi @ UNGA

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said India has developed the world's first DNA vaccine against COVID-19, which can be administered to all people above the age of 12 years. 'India, which......

Modi first foreign head to get Bhutan's highest civilian honour

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday received Bhutan's highest civilian award, the 'Order of the Druk Gyalpo', making him the first foreign Head of the Government to receive the honour. IMAGE:......

Forces want Indo-Burmese border fenced immediately

Security forces, deployed along the 1,463 km long Indo-Myanmar international border, want a time-bound execution of the ongoing border fencing. A senior officer pointed out that at present the......

Drug addiction rises among Valley's youth

They smoke it, sniff it, eat it, inject it and temporarily escape into a deceptive world. Be it a way to fight personal crisis, means to wipe the mental scars or just a sign of being cool, the......

ICMR doing 3 studies on post-Covid heart attack among young

Sudden deaths have been reported in some young people after COVID-19 but sufficient evidence is not available to confirm the cause, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya told Parliament on......

Quality Lapses Shut Down Drug Makers

Most of the pharma units are failing in documentation, and validation processes, and many don't have full-fledged quality control laboratories. IMAGE: Kindly note the image has been posted only......

India slashes health budget, already one of the world's lowest

The United Nations estimates about one third of the world's 1.2 billion poorest people live in India The government has ordered a cut of nearly 20 per cent in its 2014-15 healthcare budget due to......

India battles HIV/AIDS drug shortage as some firms halt supply

India had the third-largest number of people living with HIV in the world at the end of 2013 and accounts for about four out of 10 people living with HIV in the Asian region.India is facing a......

Why India's pharma cos prefer Gujarat over tax havens

Gujarat has around 3,000 licensees for allopathic drug manufacturing, apart from around seven homeopathic licensees, 500 ayuvedic and 600-700 cosmetics licensees The Goods and Services Tax (GST)......

India stares at trade war as Trump readies reciprocal tax

$5-billion worth of pharma exports would be in a tough place if tariffs are revised upwards. Trump signed two proclamations that levied 25% tariff on steel and 10% on aluminium. Illustration:......

10 Films that Amazed Me at Cannes

The 74th Cannes Film Festival ended with the jury -- headed by Spike Lee -- handing out awards to a number of international films from France, Iran, Finland, Israel, Norway, Japan and the US. But......

No positive doping tests at FIFA World Cup

For this year's tournament, every participating player was tested in unannounced controls before the competition and further systematic tests have been performed during it, both with post-match......

WADA says drug testers routinely obstructed by Russian athletes

Testers were also routinely obstructed from gaining access to athletes who used military cities as the location for their whereabouts knowing doping control officers would need special permission......

Now, Ethiopia moves into the doping spotlight

This year Olympic Games could feature an athletics programme without two of the sport’s most powerful nations -- Russia and Kenya -- while a third, Ethiopia, is under immense pressure to show......

How the world of sport reacted to Russian doping

An independent commission report, led by Canadian law professor and sports lawyer Richard McLaren, published on Monday revealed evidence of widespread state-sponsored doping by Russian athletes at......

EPL to combat Asia exploitation

English Premier League chairman Dave Richards has vowed to help protect Asia from being exploited by money-grabbing clubs."We'll be talking to clubs when we go back to England," said Richards, who......

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