By Administrator_India Capital Sands India announced a limited re-opening of its giant rail network beginning on Tuesday after a nearly seven-week lockdown, despite also reporting its biggest single-day jump in coronavirus cases. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has faced increasing calls to end his government’s stringent lockdown of the nation’s 1.3 billion population, with political parties, […]
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India exports 50 million hydroxychloroquine tablets to U.S. for COVID-19 fight
By Administrator_India Capital Sands India has shipped 50 million tablets of hydroxychloroquine to the United States, an Indian source with direct knowledge of the exports said, although U.S. regulators warned the anti-malarial drug may have harmful side effects in the treatment of COVID-19. The trade, India’s biggest export of the drug to any country, follows […]
India’s Serum Institute to make millions of potential coronavirus vaccine doses
By Administrator_India Capital Sands The Serum Institute of India said on Tuesday it plans this year to produce up to 60 million doses of a potential vaccine against the new coronavirus that is under clinical trial in Britain. Serum, the world’s largest maker of vaccines by volume, is mass-producing the vaccine candidate developed by the […]
India battles supply snags in race to build affordable ventilators
By Administrator_India Capital Sands Indian medical device makers, racing to churn out ventilators as domestic COVID-19 cases spike, have been beset by supply bottlenecks, cost overruns and labour shortages that are delaying their efforts to produce an affordable device. Ventilators help patients breathe and are seen as critical given severe COVID-19 can lead to pneumonia […]
India on global radar as companies look to shift part of operations from China
By Ritu, Capital Sands Companies are reportedly considering moving at least part of their supply chains to India in a bid to reduce dependence on China after the coronavirus pandemic. Manufacturers—global and domestic—are in talks with Indian companies to scale up operations for automobile components and electronic products from India, executives told the Livemint. This comes […]
India restarts factories, farming in rural areas even as coronavirus cases rise
By Administrator_India Capital Sands Some shops and businesses opened in rural India on Monday as part of a staggered exit from a weeks-long lockdown that has left millions out of work and short of food, while coronavirus infections rose by more than 1,500 over the previous day. India’s 1.3 billion population has been under one […]
In Modi’s India, virus fallout inflames divisions between Muslims and Hindus
By Administrator_India Capital Sands The purple ink stamped on Iqbal Hussain Siddiqui’s hand by Indian health workers was supposed to ensure he stayed home under quarantine. But the 66-year-old Siddiqui, an egg seller in Mumbai’s sprawling Dharavi slum, rubbed it off as best he could and went back to work. The mark would have […]








