NEW DELHI: Hyderabad-based leading vaccine Bharat Biotech has announced that its Covid-19 vaccine candidate, Covaxin, during its tests on animal rhesus macaques, has developed a “robust immune response” to the highly infectious coronavirus, “preventing infections and diseases in primates after large amounts of exposure to the live SARS-CoV-2 virus ”. …
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MUMBAI: One day after he was assaulted by alleged Shiv Sainiks for allegedly forwarding a cartoon satirizing Maharashtra Prime Minister Uddhav Thackeray, the retired Navy officer, demanded on Saturday that the CM apologize to him and the country. The retired officer, Madan Sharma, also said Thackeray should resign from his …
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NEW DELHI: When the Taliban sat in Doha For its first real and direct engagement with the Afghan government for peace, India participated in the opening session of negotiations with Foreign Minister S Jaishankar underlining the need to address the problem of violence in and around the war-torn country. Not …
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NEW DELHI: India hopes Afghanistan’s soil will never be used for anti-Indian activities, Foreign Minister S Jaishankar he said on Saturday, joining the inaugural session of intra-Afghan negotiations in Doha via videoconference. In his short speech, the Foreign Minister said that India’s friendship with Afghanistan is “strong and unshakable” and …
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NEW DELHI: Warning people not to let their guard down until an effective coronavirus drug is developed, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday devised a catchphrase in Hindi to emphasize his point. He said: ‘Jab tak dawai nahi, tab tak dhilai nahi’ (There is no neglect until a medicine is …
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NEW DELHI: China has mobilized thousands of soldiers, tanks and howitzers within rifle range of the Indian army deployment at Spanggur Gap in the southern part of Pangong Tso in the east Ladakhsources said, even when Indian troops They are on high alert. The Chinese People’s Liberation Army carried out …
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NEW DELHI: activist lawyer Prashant Bhushan, convicted and awarded a rupee fine for his derogatory tweets against the judiciary, on Saturday the Supreme Court requested that the right of appeal against convictions in original criminal contempt cases be heard by a larger and different court. On August 31, Bhushan was …
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NEW DELHI: Bharat Biotech International Limited has announced that its Covid-19 vaccine candidate, Covaxin, has shown positive efficacy in animal studies and has generated strong immune responses. Covaxin, developed by the Indian Council for Medical Research and Bharat Biotech, is being tested in 12 institutes in India. This indigenous vaccine …
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PATNA: former Minister of the Union Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, whose recent resignation from the RJD has left political waters in Bihar Astir has fallen seriously ill and has been put on a ventilator, a close aide said Saturday. Singh, who has been admitted to AIIMS, Delhi for about a week …
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NEW DELHI: In the days following the Indian armysurprise move by taking control of key heights in the Pangong Tso area and prior to the S Jaishankar-Wang Yi meeting, China repeatedly struck and pushed along the border in an attempt to test the Indian response. Large deployments in the Chushul …
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