Assure supply of medicines for black fungus: Sonia Gandhi to PM

NEW DELHI: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Saturday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to ensure the assured supply of essential medicines for the treatment of mucormycosis (black fungus) and cost-free care to those affected. In a letter to the prime minister, she also pointed out that the illness is not covered under Ayushman Bharat and […]

Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine 80 per cent effective against B1.617.2 variant: UK study

Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine 80 per cent effective against B1.617.2 variant: UK study

London: Two doses from either the Oxford/AstraZeneca or the Pfizer vaccine are over 80 per cent effective in preventing infection from the B1.617.2 variant of COVID-19, first discovered in India, a new UK government study has reportedly found. The Oxford/AstraZeneca two-dose vaccine is also being produced by the Serum Institute of India as Covishield and […]

Centre must take action against Ramdev for making unscientific statements against allopathy: IMA

NEW DELHI: The Union health ministry should take action against yoga guru Ramdev as he has misled people by making “unlearned” statements against allopathy and defamed scientific medicine, the Indian Medical Association said on Saturday. Ramdev should be prosecuted under the Epidemic Diseases Act as “untutored” statements are “a threat to the literate society of […]

Apple CEO faces tough questions about app store competition

San Ramon: Apple CEO Tim Cook described the company’s ironclad control over its mobile app store as the best way to serve and protect iPhone users, but he faced tough questions about competition issues from a judge Friday about allegations he oversees an illegal monopoly. The rare courtroom appearance by one of the world’s best-known […]

Tokyo Olympics on schedule, says IOC chief Thomas Bach despite Japanese opposition

NEW DELHI: International Olympic Committee chief Thomas Bach on Saturday asserted that the Tokyo Olympics will go on as scheduled despite opposition from the majority of Japanese population amid the raging COVID-19 pandemic. The IOC president said hosting the Olympics, already postponed by a year in 2020 due to the unprecedented health crisis, will send […]

Saha subtly questions IPL bubble tightness, says UAE would have been better venue

KOLKATA: Seasoned wicketkeeper-batsman Wriddhiman Saha has indicated that the bio-bubble for IPL 14 was not as foolproof as the one in UAE last year, becoming the first India player to publicly question, even if subtly, the tightness of the controlled environment. The 36-year-old Saha was among the players who contracted the dreaded virus before the […]