In an interview with IANS, Adar Poonawalla, CEO, Serum Institute of India (SII) said as per the arrangement with AstraZeneca, SII will be making one billion doses of Covishield vaccine over the next one year for India and other low-and-middle-income countries (GAVI countries). “We will start producing a few millions of doses at a personal […]
A young Indian American TV reporter for CBS New York has died in a moped accident, according to police. Nina Kapur, 26, who was riding pillion on a rental electric moped, died on Saturday when the vehicle swerved and threw both her and the drive on to the road, police said on Monday. She […]
Women in the modern era are comparatively safer, better empowered and they enjoy a more dignified life than women during the days of ‘rajas and maharajas’ in ancient India. Often, women were publicly disgraced as victims of war or despicable politics practiced by feudal lords, says historian Dr. S. Chandnibi, Associate Professor, in the […]
Strong winds, heavy rains and thunder. While this may sound just the ideal Sunday morning for many Delhiites, there were scores in Delhi who wouldn’t agree. No doubt, the sudden drop of temperature to 29 degrees centigrade has brought a huge respite to many struggling with the heat, but it has left at least one […]
The key Indian equity indices traded on a positive note on Friday morning with the Nifty50 on the National Stock Exchange trading above the 10,800 mark. Healthy buying was witnessed in metal, oil and gas, auto and finance stocks. Around 10.24 a.m., Sensex was trading at 36,700.72, higher by 229.04 points or 0.63 per cent […]
As the four-year-old Pinarayi Vijayan government in Kerala was winning applause in the management of COVID-19, out of the blue came a gold smuggling case and a week later, two top officials in the Chief Minister’s Office were booted out. The million dollar question now is who will be the next to fall? The gold […]
Within three days India recorded more than one lakh cases of novel coronavirus (Covid-19) taking the tally over one million mark with over 25,000 fatalities, the Union Health Ministry data revealed on Friday. India recorded its highest spike of 34,956 Covid-19 cases and 687 deaths in the last 24 hours, pushing the tally to 10,03,832 […]
Veteran actress Himani Shivpuri is happy to play a multi-dimensional role in the TV show “Happu Ki Ultan Paltan”. She says such roles are rare in today’s television scenario. She essays the role of Katori Amma in the comedy drama. “When this role was brought to me, I knew it was a winner and didn’t […]
“Job Trainer will ensure more Australians have the chance to reskill or upskill to fill the jobs on the other side of this crisis,” the Prime Minister said. In a recently release media statement, the Government announced that it will invest $2 billion to present the masses of hundreds of Australians, the access to new […]
Recent Investments (April-July, 2020) 1. Google Investment Amount –10 billion dollars. 2. Walmart Investment Amount –1.2 billion dollars . 3. Foxconn (Apple Inc. Supplier) Investment Amount –1 billion dollars . 4. Facebook Investment Amount – The world’s largest social media company invests 5.7 billion dollars in India’s Reliance Jio Platforms . It is Facebook’s biggest […]