Backing the 12-16 weeks gap between the two doses of Covishield in the country, the chief investigator of the AstraZeneca vaccine clinical trials on Friday said that the level of protection provided by one dose of the preventive significantly increases in the second and third months after the jab. In an interview with The Wire, … Read more
SATARA: Having watched his father’s funeral pyre burn by a river bank close to their farm last month, Indian sugarcane grower Dattatray Bagal and his brothers had to set aside grief to count the financial cost of the coronavirus’s impact on their family. They had hoped to buy a tractor for the small farm in … Read more
This Gujarat-Origin Woman, 20, is Part of Israel’s Defence Forces Team That is Attacking Gaza The Israeli army bombed the Gaza Strip in the early hours of Wednesday, nearly a month after a ceasefire was declared between Palestinian militia group Hamas and the IDF (Israel Defence Forces). The IDF team involved in carrying out the … Read more
India’s first medical drone delivery trial is set to begin today in Gauribidanur, around 80 km from Bengaluru. The trial led by a consortium of firms led by Bengaluru’s Throttle Aerospaces Systems had got the approval from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) for object delivery experiments as early as March 2020. However, the … Read more
New Delhi: Top commanders of the Army on Thursday carried out a comprehensive review of India’s overall security challenges including in eastern Ladakh as well as other sensitive areas along the Line of Actual Control with China on the first day of a two-day conference, people familiar with the development said. The commanders also deliberated … Read more
It was a plan that was 20 years in the making to overhaul a close to 250-year-old system that provided much of the Indian armed forces’ basic fighting needs. So, what had held up the move to corporatise the Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) and how will it help the cause of improved defence production? What … Read more
Spinners Sneh Rana and Deepti Sharma fashioned India’s comeback by triggering a batting collapse in the final session but England Women still managed a decent 269 for 6 on the opening day of the one-off Test in Bristol on Wednesday. Playing a Test match after nearly seven years, India Women were struggling badly but … Read more
SOUTHAMPTON: If India goes on to win the inaugural World Test Championship title, it could prove to be the watershed moment for the revival of the longest format just like the 2007 World T20 triumph did for the popularity of the shortest format, feels Cheteshwar Pujara. One of the shining products of the traditional format, … Read more
It will be called Covovax in India and the Centre expects 200 million doses of the vaccine to be available for use in India by the end of 2021. Here’s all you need to know about Covid-19 vaccine being produced by the US-based Novovax, and why it has raised hopes of countries bringing about a … Read more
With 90% Efficacy, Novavax to Add Ammo to India’s Vaccine Arsenal, Centre Looking to Fast-track Rollout India is likely to proceed with the rollout of Novavax soon with Serum Institute as manufacturing partner on the basis of strong interim data. Overall, the efficacy of the vaccine was 90.4 per cent — that is, it showed … Read more