WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged the need for a global pandemic agreement, emphasizing that it's crucial for protectin...

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COP15 nations sit together in Montreal to decide on a timeline, plan to save the planet, and sign a historic deal to protect nature.

The decision by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to set up an intergovernmental negotiating body (INB) tasked with drawing up an interna...

Here, AFP takes a look at the Gates Foundation, from how it works and what projects it finances, to its impact on the pandemic and how the ...

Vaccine developers Pfizer and BioNTech plan to roll out the first doses within weeks, once they receive emergency use permissions from drug...

The top court was hearing a plea seeking registration of an FIR by the CBI against ten Indian pharmaceutical firms for manufacturing and se...

The force majeure clause includes the phrase ‘act of god’ to mean situations that are uncontrolled by human intervention and could not have...

Indian generic drug maker Dr Reddy's Laboratories on Wednesday announced the launch of antiviral drug Avigan (favipiravir) tablets, current...

Emphasising that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden knows that even the United States of America needs friends on this planet, John ...

As part of a broader offensive against India and Western rivals, Pakistan and China have entered a secret three-year agreement to expand po...

"RDIF is cooperating with Indian partners to share the most advanced practices to combat coronavirus, we have been in touch through the who...

The approval process for remdesivir was accelerated in view of the emergency situation and the unmet need for medicines in light of the cor...

While all new drugs must undergo trials before getting marketing approval in India, the regulator can grant exemptions in public interest a...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that the coronavirus threatens Africa's progress and could push millions into extreme poverty....

The stakes are immense with the coronavirus sickening more than 3 million people.

"Challenges of terrorism and extremism have increased. There is close link with drug trafficking, arms smuggling and money laundering," he ...