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Covid-19: Zydus Cadila seeks DCGI nod for treating mild symptoms

New Delhi: Cadila Healthcare Ltd (Zydus Cadila) has sought permission from India’s drugs regulator for starting the next phase of human clinical trials for its biological therapy to treat mild Covid-19 cases. On Thursday, the Ahmedabad-based company said the therapy named ZRC-3308, a cocktail of two SARS-CoV-2-neutralising monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), targets the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. […]

PNB scam: Mehul Choksi held in Dominica; repatriation to India soon

Virendra Pandit  New Delhi: The long arm of the law finally caught up with Indian-born fugitive jeweler Mehul Choksi, alleged mastermind of the Rs.13,500 crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam in 2018, and he will soon be repatriated to India to face justice. Choksi, 62, was captured on a beach in Dominica and will be […]

Covid-19: Tata Steel to continue paying dead staffers’ families

Virendra Pandit  New Delhi: That is why the Tatas are matchless, and the trust they have earned from the Indian masses since the mid-19th century is unprecedented. For, Tata Steel has announced social security schemes for the family members of employees affected by Covid-19. If an employee dies of Covid-19, his or her family would […]

Roving Periscope: Will Biden smile at Putin in Geneva on June 16?

Virendra Pandit  New Delhi: His Democratic Party had called Moscow names from 2016 to 2020 and accused Donald Trump of hobnobbing with Vladimir Putin to get elected as US President. Now the new US President Joe Biden is packing bags in Washington to meet his Russian counterpart in a Summit in Geneva on June 16, […]

Business: Twitter’s rival Koo gets $30m funding from Tiger Global

Virendra Pandit  New Delhi: That the global microblogging website Twitter is facing rough weather in India became apparent on Wednesday with reports that its indigenously-developed social networking challenger Koo has successfully raised USD 30 million (Rs. 218 crores) in a Series B funding round led by Tiger Global, showing the way the wind is blowing. […]

Covid-19: White House echoes WHO team, says can’t confirm WSJ report on virus origins

Virendra Pandit  New Delhi: The White House has said it cannot confirm The Wall Street Journal’s recent claim, citing a US intelligence report, that three researchers from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) had sought hospital care in November 2019, a month before the Asian country reported the first cases of Covid-19. White House Press […]

Covid-19: US warns against travel to pandemic-hit Sri Lanka, Japan

Virendra Pandit  New Delhi: The United States has warned its citizens against traveling to Japan and Sri Lanka due to Covid-19 concerns, media reported on Tuesday. Amid rising coronavirus cases in the two Asian countries, the US State Department issued a travel advisory warning against travel there. “This week, the following Travel Advisories have been […]

Covid-19: Now, Olympic-bound, Covid-19 hit Japan lacks ventilators, beds

Virendra Pandit  New Delhi: Olympic-bound Japan has just opened more vaccination centers ahead of Tokyo Games 2021, only to discover its India-like moment of truth: lack of ventilators and beds for the mounting number of Covid-19 patients in the nation’s second-largest city, Osaka. Japan is now bracing to bear the brunt of the pandemic’s rising […]

Covid-19: Foreign vaccine-makers say no to Indian states; to deal only with Centre

Virendra Pandit  New Delhi: Nearly a dozen Indian states, which tried to import Covid-19 vaccines directly from multinational manufacturers and also floated global tenders, got a setback when these companies said they will directly deal with the Centre, not individual states. These states, including non-BJP run governments, had accused the Centre of “bias” in the […]

Covid-19: IMF proposes $50 bn global vaccination plan

Virendra Pandit  New Delhi: Aiming to cover at least 40 percent of the world’s population by the end of 2021 and 60 percent by the first half of 2022, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has proposed a USD 50 billion global vaccination plan. With strong and coordinated action now — and with little in terms […]
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