Kiran Mazumdar Shaw's wealth rose by 41 per cent; The pharma tycoon was followed closely by the Godrej heir Smita V Crishna

Some 500,000 doses made by SII, the world's largest vaccine producer, are set to arrive in Canada on Wednesday, a surprise boost for Canada's lagging vaccination drive

China has given conditional approval for a single dose COVID-19 vaccine, touted to be a rival to Johnson & Johnson's one-jab shot cleared by the US drug regulator

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince and de facto ruler Mohammed bin Salman has put Public Investment Fund (PIF), Saudi Arabia's main sovereign wealth fund, at the centre of reforms aimed at diversifying the economy of the world's top oil exporter away from fossil fuel

A year into the pandemic, the running total of lives lost was about 498,000 roughly the population of Kansas City, Missouri, and just shy of the size of Atlanta

Central European authorities warned on Friday that they are witnessing an increase in coronavirus infections across their region amid discovery of new variants

Private wealth creators are solely responsible for India's banking stress; increasingly fleeing India with their wealth and bank loans, and those making huge profits are doing so by cutting jobs and wages

Legitimate questions about the virus created perfect conditions for conspiracy theories. In the absence of knowledge, guesswork and propaganda flourished

If emerging markets can get their policy and rule of law act together, they will become a long playing bull market

Budget 2021 expectations: The pharma sector is among those sectors which would have big expectations from the Budget. The sector was in focus in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged lives and economies across the world

Healthcare service providers want the government to increase healthcare spending in this year's Budget and ramp up infrastructure in the sector

The review, of more than 40 publicly available documents and research papers in Chinese and English, shows BGI's links to the People's Liberation Army (PLA) include research with China's top military supercomputing experts

For people to benefit, the budget needs overhauling to create jobs; revive small businesses; address poverty and health and education deprivations. Pursuing the existing paradigm of growth may push GDP and stock markets up without improving the living standards of the vast majority

Given the strategic importance of the technology sector, it is important to ensure that the government continues to support this sector through favourable policies

WEF 2021: Dharmendra Pradhan says it's been policy of government to focus on reskilling and upskilling; Infosys CEO Salil Parekh says Indian tech major is making sure it's doing its bit by offering its new skilling platform to be used by all its workers and students across India

Increased budgetary allocation for healthcare, ease of GST regulations, and a commitment by citizens to invest in insurance will position India's healthcare sector to take a giant step forward

The UK health department said 100,162 people have died after testing positive, including 1,631 new deaths reported Tuesday

With vaccination against the coronavirus underway, the sector is finally hopeful of a turnaround. It is also hoping for Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to announce measures to substantiate this optimism

Oxfam's 'The Inequality Virus' report said it would take an unskilled worker 10,000 years to make what businessman Mukesh Ambani made in an hour during the pandemic and three years to make what he made in a second

Discussing the future of healthcare post-COVID at the Business Today MindRush event on Friday, January 22 , a panel of distinguished experts shared their views on how the present crisis will shape the basics of healthcare in times to come