Serum Institute of India (SII) has teamed up with Merck KGaA, Germany, to develop COVID-19 fighting monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), made by cloning a unique white blood cell to increase immunity and fight diseases, along with drug research driven nonprofit scientific research organization IAVI and Scripps Research

Covaxin, the COVID-19 vaccine being developed by Bharat Biotech in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), has received the approval of Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI's) Expert Committee to start the final phase of trials

Serum has floated a new company Serum Institute Life Sciences (SILS) that will exclusively focus on developing, producing and supplying pandemic vaccines

Many studies, including those by top government bodies, identify top polluters of Delhi air as industries, vehicles and dust; the annual, ritualistic bashing of Punjab farmers in winter months only helps in shifting the blame and allows government agencies to evade accountability

Bajaj Auto Q2 results: During July-September quarter, the company sold 10.53 lakh units against 11.73 units in Q2 FY20, down 10 per cent YoY

According to estimates by the Maharashtra State Onion Growers' Association (MSOGA), 50 per cent of kharif and late kharif onion crops were damaged by heavy rain

India has 29,000 storage points, 83,000 deep freezers, 736 district stores and 258 cold rooms to store vaccines, but they have to be scaled up further for India to vaccinate all its people

Luxury cars that are imported into the country as completely built units attract high duties of 110 per cent but assembling them as completely knocked down units (CKD) brings down the taxation to just 16.5 per cent

Local manufacturers to crank up alloy wheel capacity to tap a thriving market; of the annual requirement of 26 million alloy wheels in India, almost 46 per cent was imported mostly from China in FY20 due to lack of domestic supply

COVID-19 led to largest global economic contraction in 80 years: World Bank, IMFThe World Bank and the International Monetary Fund said the global economic contraction caused by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic is the largest in the last eight decades, raising the world poverty rate, exacerbating inequalities and damaging long-term economic growth prospects. The WB and IMF concluded their annual meeting here on Friday, which heavily revolved around the impact of COVID-19.India gained over a...

Amending the policy, Director General of Foreign Trade has revised the existing policy from free to prohibited. The move has been welcomed by the domestic as well as international players having operations in India

India may get COVID-19 vaccine by March 2021 provided the regulators signal with the processes fast as multiple manufacturers are working on it, and already two are in phase-3 trial and one in the phase-2 trial

Apollo Hospitals Group Executive Vice-Chairperson Shobana Kamineni said that the group will work with the government in tandem to ensure that maximum number of people gets the coronavirus vaccine safe and fast

As per the latest satellite and radar observations, Mumbai city and suburbs are very likely to experience thunderstorms accompanied with lightning and an intense spell of rainfall (2-3 cm/hr) during next 3 -4 hours

Coronavirus vaccine update: Bharat Biotech is ready to start Covaxin's Phase 3 trail to test the vaccine on about 28,500 volunteers

Under Phase-II of the FAME India Scheme, Government of India (GoI) intends to support the development of EV charging infrastructure by extending capital grant to organisations for promoting the use of Electric Vehicles (EVs)

\"We're expecting that early next year we should have vaccine in the country from maybe more than one source,\" says union health minister Harsh Vardhan

India is yet to commercially manufacture vehicles run on hydrogen as fuel, though the Government in June had come out with draft regulatory guidelines for hydrogen-powered vehicles

According to sources, the phase-2 trial of the Covaxin is going on and the second dose is yet to be given to volunteers at some sites

All these trains will be fully reserved and will be available to only those with a confirmed reservation ticket. Reservation for some of these trains will commence from October 9, and for remaining ones on October 11