India approves special provision to make 7th-generation Indian-origin Mauritians eligible for OCI CardIndia has approved special provision allowing 7th-gen Indian-origin Mauritians to be eligible for OCI Card, aiming to reconnect younger Mau...
12 Mar, 2024, 02.33 PM IST
RSS mission is to make India attain all-round development: Mohan BhagwatMohan Bhagwat said that India had served humanity by sending vaccines to various countries during the COVID-19 pandemic and stood beside Sr...
26 Sep, 2022, 01.06 PM IST
View: It’s no longer enough to be the ‘pharmacy of the world’ to stay agile, relevant and responsibleThe last five years of inspections by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in India show that about 10% of inspections were classified...
04 Mar, 2022, 11.55 PM IST
'Modern Indian women want to stay single, unwilling to give birth even after marriage'"Today, I am sorry to say this, lots of modern women in India want to stay single. Even if they get married, they don't want to give birth....
11 Oct, 2021, 03.08 PM IST
COVID lockdown restrictions in Kerala force people to perform 'Bali Tharpanam' rituals at homeRestrictions to contain the spread of coronavirus in Kerala forced people to offer "bali" to their ancestors by performing the rituals in t...
08 Aug, 2021, 11.58 AM IST
How virus detectives trace the origins of an outbreak - and why it's so trickyIn order to predict and prevent future pandemics like COVID-19, researchers need to find the origin of the viruses that cause them. This is...
11 Jun, 2021, 01.14 PM IST
Desi expert traces ‘great grandpa’ of SARS-CoV-2The ancestor, or progenitor genome, it turned out, had been around since at least October 2019 and survived till March 2020.
10 Jun, 2021, 10.40 AM IST
Coronavirus circulated undetected months before first COVID-19 cases in China: StudyThe team, including researchers from University of California San Diego in the US, note that their simulations suggest that the mutating vi...
19 Mar, 2021, 01.45 PM IST
Jaishankar meets Mauritius foreign minister; reviews 'excellent' bilateral relationsJaishankar, who arrived here in India's strategically key maritime neighbour in the Indian Ocean region on Sunday night from the Maldives o...
22 Feb, 2021, 04.32 PM IST
India's vaccine diplomacy to Caribbean builds on two centuries of connectionDuring this First India-CARICOM Summit Level meeting, Modi announced major Development assistance programs for CARICOM nations.
11 Feb, 2021, 08.31 PM IST
As Kamala Harris inches closer to victory, Tamil Nadu's twin villages prepare for early DeepavaliThe mood is upbeat at Thulasenthirapuram and Painganadu, tucked away in a corner of Tiruvarur district, a part of the fertile Cauvery delta...
07 Nov, 2020, 06.37 PM IST
Have always felt deeply connected to Indian American community, says Joe BidenIn an op-ed for Indiawest, Biden said he "always felt deeply connected to the Indian American community because of the values we share: dut...
24 Oct, 2020, 11.26 AM IST
View: After Covid, employers must strive to balance the next quarter and the next quarter-centuryBalancing the next quarter and the next quarter-century is hard, but will decide which employers come out of Covid-19 stronger or weaker. P...
27 Sep, 2020, 05.37 PM IST
U.S. presidential campaign: Joe Biden launches new national ad aimed at Black AmericansThe one-minute ad, titled “Better America,” also takes a direct swipe at Trump, without mentioning the Republican president by name.
06 Aug, 2020, 06.59 PM IST
Scientists estimate Covid may have entered India in November-DecemberTop scientists in the country have estimated that the ancestor of the novel coronavirus strain from Wuhan was in circulation by Dec 11, 201...
04 Jun, 2020, 10.58 AM IST
How coronavirus jumped from animals to humans decodedThis jump from species-to-species was the result of the ability of the virus to bind to host cells, a study shows.
30 May, 2020, 06.35 PM IST
China to observe April 4 as mourning day for coronavirus victimsChina will observe a national day of mourning on Saturday for martyrs, including the "whistleblower" doctor Li Wenliang, who sacrificed the...
03 Apr, 2020, 01.28 PM IST