Due to winter surge in US, coronavirus deaths are rising, overall toll toward 400,000 , warning of a new variant in states

The Davos Agenda Summit will be held from January 25-29, with several heads of state scheduled to deliver special addresses and engage with business leaders

Speaking at the 25th Wharton India Economic Forum, he said the Indian pharma industry ensured the continuity of supplies

PM Modi launches COVID-19 vaccination drive: Urging people to take the vaccine and to take the complete course PM Modi allayed fears surrounding the jab. He said that when it comes to vaccines, India enjoys scientific credibility

All eyes are on the budget as the government walks a tightrope of balancing growth and fiscal concerns. Effective implementation of the proposed budget will be key

Coronavirus vaccine in India: Talking about the vaccine, the minister urged people not to pay heed to any rumours. He said India became free of polio disease because of the vaccine

Coronavirus vaccine dry run in Delhi: Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan visited Delhi's Guru Teg Bahadur hospital to review dry run of coronavirus vaccine today

A sample number of beneficiaries will undergo a mock immunisation process. Staff of vaccination centres, a select group of healthcare workers will participate in the mock immunisation drive

The ministry underlined that all public health facilities in the country had only around 16,000 ventilators from the Independence till pre-COVID times

PM Narendra Modi says number of new cases of COVID-19 infection is decreasing now. \"We are preparing to run the world's largest vaccination programme in the next year,\" he adds

Gagandeep Kang said although the Centre has planned to vaccinate 30 crore Indians against the COVID-19, it will be in 2022, that two-third of the population will get vaccinated

Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine approved: The world's largest vaccine maker by volume, Serum Institute has already manufactured 50 million doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on at-risk funding; the vaccine is cheap and easy to produce

COVID-19 vaccination drive: The mock drill will be like the actual vaccination drive but there will be no vaccine administration. Data will be fed to the Co-WIN app, cold storage will be tested and vaccine transportation from cold storage to the sites, crowd management etc will be checked

Ind-Ra says COVID-induced challenges will unlikely go away till mass vaccination becomes a reality but economic agents and activities seem to have adjusted to the post-COVID-19 world

The challenge invites participation from innovative startups and emerging technology specialists to augment and scale the CoWIN platform. CoWin is a digitalised platform that will be used to effectively roll out and scale up the mechanism for COVID Vaccine Distribution System nationally

At age 78, Biden is in the high-risk group for the highly contagious respiratory disease

It is estimated that during the prolonged lockdown, the auto industry suffered losses of more than Rs 2,300 crore in turnover for every single day of closure

Serum Institute of India (SII) Chief Executive Officer Adar Poonawalla said the vaccine makers are going to propose this to the government while speaking at a virtual panel at the Carnegie India's Global Technology Summit on Friday

Use this 'act of God' to push fiscal reforms: ex-RBI chief D Subbarao advises FM Sitharaman Duvvuri Subbarao, former governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), has advised Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to use the pandemic as an opportunity to execute fiscal reforms, and not just \"waste this crisis\". Subbarao highlighted potential challenges for the Indian economy, saying that the hurdles faced by Sitharaman are unique, something that her predecessors had not encountered duri...

Researchers said over half (51 per cent) of these doses will go to high income countries, which represent 14 per cent of the world's population