NEW DELHI — The world’s biggest vaccine maker Serum Institute of India (SII) on Tuesday said it will reduce the production of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine — marketed as Covishield in India — by at least 50 per cent from next week as government orders have dried up. Adar Poonawalla, chief executive officer of SII, told […]
SRINAGAR — Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) J&K spokesman Altaf Thakur Tuesday took a jibe at PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti by staging a protest in New Delhi along with just six persons of the party stating that the PDP chief should give logic as to how she could bring back something that had been rolled back […]
SRINAGAR — Parsa Mufti became the first Kashmiri, who has been selected for Schwarzman Scholars, one of the most selective courses in the world funded by American Billionaire Stephen Schwarzman. According to a press release, Schwarzman Scholar is one of the world’s most prestigious graduate fellowships in the world. Parsa Mufti is the first person […]
NEW DELHI — India has emerged as a poor and “very unequal” country, according to the latest report released by the World Inequality Lab. The bottom half of the Indian population owns “almost nothing” of the national wealth, claimed the report authored by senior economists including France’s Thomas Piketty. In 2021, the top one percent […]
LUCKNOW — Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday reached out to farmers, claiming the Centre had insulated them from the sudden spurt in international fertiliser and urea prices by providing subsidies worth Rs 76,000 crore. Addressing a public meeting after inaugurating the Rs 8,600-crore Gorakhpur fertiliser factory, Modi said soil nutrients NPK (Nitrogen, Phosphorous, Potassium) […]
ISLAMABAD — Famed Pakistani vocalist Aima Baig is on cloud nine as she has been named as Spotify’s most streamed local female artists in Pakistan for 2021 list. The Baazi famed singer, who rose to fame with her debut track Kalabaaz Dil, turned to her Instagram and shared her biggest achievement. Sharing the post, the Item Number crooner […]
LONDON — Following up first doses of the AstraZeneca or Pfizer vaccines with second doses of the Moderna or Novavax jabs generates robust immune response against Covid-19, according to a study published in The Lancet journal. A team led by researchers at the University of Oxford in the UK found that no safety concerns were […]
SRINAGAR — In a sorry state of affairs, the Power Development Department (PDD) has turned a blind eye towards the recovery of a whopping Rs 5.50 crore electricity dues from an influential industrialist, who was running an electric arc furnace section in his factory in Lassipora industrial estate in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. According to […]
KOLKATA — Another member of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s family has made her entry into West Bengal politics. Mamata’s sister-in-law, Kajari Banerjee, will be a candidate in the Kolkata civic body polls on 19 December. She will be contesting on a Trinamool Congress (TMC) ticket from Ward 73, where Mamata resides. A social worker by […]
WASHINGTON — Amazon’s cloud-service network suffered a major outage Tuesday, the company said, disrupting access to many popular sites. The service provides remote computing services to many governments, universities and companies, including The Associated Press. Roughly five hours after numerous companies and other organizations began reporting issues with Amazon Web Services, the company said in […]