The first drug to treat infants sick with malaria is approved by Swiss authoritySwissmedic has approved Coartem Baby, a malaria medicine specifically formulated for infants weighing 2 to 5 kilograms. This marks the firs...
09 Jul, 2025, 06.43 AM IST
Climate crisis threatens to exploit and exacerbate division and polarisation: WHO chief Ghebreyesus20 Dec, 2024, 06.56 PM IST
Climate crisis threatens to exploit and exacerbate division and polarisation: WHO Chief GhebreyesusWHO Director-General highlighted the escalating climate crisis, emphasizing its potential to worsen global divisions. He stressed the urgen...
20 Dec, 2024, 02.34 PM IST
The man who earlier worked as Amitabh Bachchan's CA is now among India's richestPremchand Godha, once Amitabh Bachchan’s chartered accountant, has risen to become one of India’s richest individuals with a net worth of R...
15 Dec, 2024, 05.29 PM IST
Chole Bhature, kadak chai, and gazab UPI: US Ambassador Eric Garcetti shares his amazing experience in India"I never dreamed I'd have the honor and privilege of representing my country here in India, but what a year it's been," remarked Garcetti, ...
15 May, 2024, 05.40 PM IST
COP28 delegates urge greater action on climate-linked health risksPhysicians, activists, and country representatives at COP28 in Dubai call for greater global efforts to protect people from health and safe...
03 Dec, 2023, 05.33 PM IST
What is 'Friendshoring', the buzzword in global supply chains?At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Bonnie Glick, then the deputy administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, was st...
19 Nov, 2022, 10.38 AM IST
SII's Poonawalla makes clarion call for global certification of vaccines"Multilateral organisations such as the United Nations and the World Trade Organisation should take it upon themselves to harmonise the cer...
27 Sep, 2022, 12.10 PM IST
UN paper suggests Pakistan should immediately suspend debt repaymentThe memorandum shared by the UN Development Programme with the country's government suggested that Pakistan's creditors should consider deb...
23 Sep, 2022, 03.54 PM IST
No exit from zero-COVID: China struggles to find policy off-rampChinese medical experts believed last year that higher vaccination rates would eventually allow China to relax tough rules on movement and ...
27 Jan, 2022, 11.18 AM IST
COVID-19 pandemic pushed over half a billion into extreme poverty: UN reportIn his message marking the Day, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that with the third year of the pandemic fast approaching, "we m...
13 Dec, 2021, 09.59 AM IST
In year-ender note, Bill Gates gets emotional about divorce from Melinda French, empty nesting; says 2021 has brought 'great personal sadness'The billionaire, like many of us, has had a tough year.
09 Dec, 2021, 12.29 PM IST
Sailing against the tide: These stocks defy market mood, jump up to 20%Overall, 156 stocks advanced on Monday against some 1,450 stocks that were in the red.
23 Mar, 2020, 12.41 PM IST
Two Indians die every minute due to air pollution: StudyThe smog over northern India is extracting a heavy toll, every minute two lives are lost in India due to ambient air pollution, the study p...
19 Feb, 2017, 12.02 PM IST
UN ushers in ambitious 2030 Sustainable Development GoalsThe Millennium Development Goals came to an end with 2015 paving the way for the SDGs, an even more ambitious set of goals to banish a host...
01 Jan, 2016, 11.49 AM IST
Climate change may lead to spread of malaria, crop loss: GovtThe study titled 'Climate change and India: a 4x4 assessment - a sectoral and regional analysis for 2030s' was published in 2010 by the Min...
18 Dec, 2015, 04.38 PM IST
- Indian economy resilient to withstand global pressures: Former President A P J Abdul Kalam
Former President A P J Abdul Kalam today said the country's economy is resilient to withstand global pressures in the current economic slow...
25 May, 2012, 05.03 PM IST