Protesters blocked roads in Patna and other places in Bihar on Friday after opposition parties called a bandh over alleged “irregularities” in the Railway Recruitment Board exam. A passenger train was set on fire and another was attacked with stones in Bihar in violent protests by students against the railway jobs exam on a day […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands The Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) in Maharashtra has said its employees who have not taken even one dose of vaccine against COVID-19 will not be paid salaries. The decision was taken on Monday during a meeting of senior TMC officials, including civic commissioner Dr Vipin Sharma and Thane Mayor Naresh Mhaske. […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands India is making its digital platform for Covid19 vaccination drive, CoWIN, open source for all countries to access, adapt and use. This is perhaps the first time that any country is making a software platform developed by its public sector open for the world. Speaking at the CoWin Global Conclave on […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands Prime Minister Narendra Modi took his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi on March 1. “Took my first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at AIIMS. Remarkable how our doctors and scientists have worked in quick time to strengthen the […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands India will start exporting COVID-19 vaccines from January 20, paving the way for many mid- and lower-income countries to get supplies of the easy-to-store Oxford/AstraZeneca drug, of which it plans to ship millions of doses within days. Serum Institute of India (SII), the world’s largest vaccine producer, told Reuters last week […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands The Indian state faces one of the world’s most formidable challenges: rolling out a Covid-19 vaccination program for 1.3 billion people. To succeed, many things have to go right in a country that usually gets a lot wrong. The government would be wise to enlist the country’s private sector in this […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands AstraZeneca and Oxford University on November 25 acknowledged a manufacturing error that is raising questions about preliminary results of their experimental COVID-19 vaccine. A statement describing the error came days after the company and the university described the shots as highly effective and made no mention of why some study participants didn’t […]
By Administrator_ India Capital Sands Pfizer Inc’s experimental Covid-19 vaccine was more than 90% effective based on initial trial results, the company said on Monday, a major victory in the fight against a pandemic that has killed over a million people and battered the world’s economy. Experts welcomed the first successful interim data from a […]