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Covid-19: US, France, Saudis, UAE, Google, MS…line up to help India

April 26, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: International community finally woke up as countries and corporations vowed to help India tackle the devastating second wave of Covid-19 pandemic, deadlier than the first ever was in 2020, with more than 300,000 infections daily making India the worst infected country. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had directed his trusted lieutenants External […]

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Education: Saudi schools teach Hindu epics, Buddhism!

April 26, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: It is incredible but true: schools in Saudi Arabia are teaching students about Hindu scriptures including Mahabharata, and Ramayana, and also Buddhism, and Gautam Buddha, as part of their social science syllabus. These changes are part of the latest policy adopted by the Arab nation, called Vision 2030, in which Riyadh […]

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Covid-19: US opens up, is ‘determined to help India in its time of need’

April 26, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Mukund Patel Chicago (USA): United States Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on Sunday assured his Indian counterpart Ajit Doval that America is ‘determined to help India in its time of need’, referring to the devastating second wave of Covid-19. To this end, the US has identified sources of specific raw material urgently required for the Indian […]

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Covid-19: Indians to pay the world’s highest Covishield vaccine prices?

April 24, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The price of Covishield vaccine, which Serum Institute of India (SII) has fixed at Rs. 600 per dose for private hospitals, maybe the highest in the world, despite the fact that the Pune-based major is not its developer but only a licensed contract manufacturer of the inoculation co-developed by the University […]

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Covid-19: Zydus Cadila gets DCGI’s EUA for anti-viral drug ‘Virafin’

April 23, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: India’s leading pharmaceutical company Cadila Healthcare Ltd (Zydus Cadila) on Friday received emergency use approval (EUA) from the drug regulator for the use of its anti-viral drug ‘Virafin’ which, it said, can reduce the need for oxygen support and improve recovery time among moderate cases of Covid-19. The Drug Controller-General of […]

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Roving Periscope: on vaccines, Biden apes Trump’s “America First” policy

April 23, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Days after hinting to resume export of raw materials India required for manufacturing and delivery of Covid-19 vaccines, the Biden administration took a U-turn, and aped Donald Trump’s “America First” policy, in an apparent bid to arm-twist New Delhi to toe the American line on various issues. “It is in the […]

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Economic impact: ‘Mobility to contain Covid-19 may cost Rs.1.5 trillion’

April 23, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The rigorous steps taken by some states to contain mobility and impose partial lockdowns to contain the spread of the Covid-19’s second wave may dent Indian economic recovery and momentum causing an economic loss of Rs 1.5 trillion (Rs.1.5 lakh crore), according to the State Bank of India Economic Research Department […]

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Indian economy: S&P projects 11% GDP growth in FY22

April 22, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: S&P Global Ratings has become the latest entity, apart from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Moody’s, to forecast double-digit growth in India’s Gross National Product (GDP) in 2021-22, but it also flagged the “substantial” impact of broader lockdowns on the economy, amid a surging second wave of Covid-19. The control […]

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Covid-19: ‘First wave made 7.4 cr Indians poorer’, says Pew Research

April 22, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The first wave of Covid-19 pandemic, that swept India in 2020, may have doubled poverty and made at least 7.4 crore people poorer as a nationwide lockdown to contain the killer virus stripped them of their jobs and livelihoods, a leading US-based think tank said. At present, India is battling a […]

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Business: SII fixes Covishield prices; ‘cheaper than imported jabs’

April 21, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII), the world’s largest vaccine maker, on Tuesday said the state government will be provided with its Covid-19 vaccine Covishield at a price tag of Rs.400 per dose, while private hospitals will get it Rs.600 per jab. The Centre will continue to get it at Rs.250 […]