Delhi govt to launch app listing blood donors soon: CMThe Delhi government will soon launch a blood donor app, announced chief minister Rekha Gupta at a blood donation camp in Anand Vihar. The ...
07 Jul, 2025, 09.00 AM IST
Income tax on gifted property: NRI step-brother to pay zero income tax on Rs 7.5 crore propertyThe ITAT Mumbai ruled that a gift from a stepsister to her stepbrother is exempt from income tax, overturning the tax department's addition...
15 May, 2025, 06.26 AM IST
Ajay Hinduja on advancing cancer care: Insights on CAR-T therapy innovationIndia has reached a milestone in cancer treatment with the first successful allogeneic CAR-T therapy at P. D. Hinduja Hospital, led by Dr. ...
15 Jan, 2025, 04.53 PM IST
Activists cry foul as govt pulls Aarogya Setu’s data protocolDespite the ebbing of the pandemic, the app continues to see downloads. Five lakh new users downloaded the app each in April and June this ...
29 Jul, 2022, 10.30 AM IST
Registration of volunteers for blood donation would soon be enabled on Co-WINAccording to the Union health ministry, E-RaktKosh will serve as the blood centre or laboratory interface. All the blood banks have been as...
07 Jun, 2022, 10.26 PM IST
Let organ donation law become path breaker for communal harmony: Kerala High CourtThe court further said, "There is no organ in the human body like a criminal kidney or criminal liver or criminal heart! There is no differ...
01 Sep, 2021, 11.22 AM IST
Russia expresses interest in sharing advanced drug with India to treat Covid-19 patientsRussian industrial major Rostec, which has developed ‘Covid Globulin’ drug to treat Covid patients, will be ready to consider both supply o...
08 Aug, 2021, 11.53 AM IST
Can stem cells treat Covid-19? There’s hopeAs the global race for vaccine or a treatment for Covid-19 reaches a frantic pace, stem cell treatment is the latest to throw its hat in th...
02 Jul, 2020, 12.45 PM IST
ICMR seeks proposals, to fund plasma therapy trials at 20 govt facilitiesICMR will choose 20 healthcare facilities, largely government-run hospitals, across India to begin clinical trials for convalescent plasma ...
23 Apr, 2020, 06.56 AM IST
Eligible for two schemes but these patients still can't get money for transplantsEleven-year-old Sameer from Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district is suffering from aplastic anaemia, and needs Rs 12 lakh for a bone marrow transpl...
22 Dec, 2019, 11.24 AM IST
Infosys is boring again, and that's a good thing: Nandan NilekaniIn the latest quarter, Infosys booked more than $2 billion in deals.
06 Nov, 2018, 03.12 PM IST
A billion Indian identities and more at stake in privacy caseUnder Aadhaar, the unique ID authority has spent 7 years collecting fingerprints and iris and facial scans, as well as personal details of ...
24 Jul, 2017, 11.47 AM IST
Umbilical cord blood biz flourishing despite doubts over its benefitsThey say stem cell transplantation for treatment is limited to hereditary or genetic conditions, specifically blood disorders.
25 Feb, 2017, 11.57 AM IST
Indian biologists discover molecules with life-saving propertiesA new effort has also been launched by the Ministry of Earth Sciences to look for similar new molecules but from the high altitude Himalaya...
01 Nov, 2015, 09.37 AM IST
Separate social innovation cell at IIT Delhi for "social good"IIT-D's chapter of NSS includes the sub-group, Social Innovation Cell, that has been over the past two-three years developing technology fo...
21 Sep, 2015, 11.26 AM IST
India-US tax impact on gifts received by Indian AmericansAny gifts in excess of Rs 50,000 received by an individual, including NRIs, will be taxed in the hands of the receiver.
29 Nov, 2012, 06.19 PM IST
- Human clinical trials for stem-cell research on cards
In what is seen as a boost to the stem cell research in the country, India would soon get to host human clinical trials for therapies using...
10 Aug, 2009, 02.14 AM IST