NEW DELHI: Pee Safe, India’s leading hygiene and wellness brand is eyeing a transformation in the way India perceives contraceptives. The brand announced its foray into the female condoms category, thereby challenging stereotypes around contraceptive use among women and addressing a market that has so far been non-existent. Studies suggest that the female condom is […]
NEW DELHI: The Income Tax Department officers on Monday started recording the statement of Robert Vadra in connection with a benami properties case. An IT department source related to probe told IANS, “An I-T team is at Vadra’s residence to record his statement in the Benami properties matter.” Vadra is Congress President Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law […]
NEW DELHI : The National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC) has awarded a contract to a Chinese company, Shanghai Tunnel Engineering Company Limited, for the construction of a 5.6-kilometre underground stretch, from New Ashok Nagar to Sahibabad, of the Delhi-Meerut RRTS project. The NCRTC, which is executing the country’s first Regional Rapid Rail Transit System […]
By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK WASHINGTON:The unprecedented Republican effort to overturn the presidential election has been condemned by an outpouring of current and former GOP officials warning the effort to sow doubt in Joe Biden’s win and keep President Donald Trump in office is undermining Americans’ faith in democracy. Trump has enlisted support […]
By JEFF AMY, DARLENE SUPERVILLE and KATE BRUMBACK WASHINGTON:President Donald Trump pressured Georgia’s Republican secretary of state to “find” enough votes to overturn Joe Biden’s win in the state’s presidential election, repeatedly citing disproven claims of fraud and raising the prospect of “criminal offense” if officials did not change the vote count, according to a […]
NEW DELHI: Zydus Cadila, an innovation driven global pharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing NCEs, Novel Biologicals, Biosimilars and Vaccines, announced that it will be starting Phase III clinical trials of it plasmid DNA vaccine to prevent COVID-19, ZyCoV-D after having received permissions from the DCGI. The company will now be initiating Phase III […]
NEW DELHI: Tech billionaire and Alibaba founder Jack Ma has “disappeared” from public life and has not been spotted for at least two months amid the conflict with the Chinese regulators. The Financial Times reported that Ma was recently replaced as a judge in the final of TV show ‘Africa’s Business Heroes’. “His photograph was […]
NEW DELHI: Serum Institute of India CEO Adar Poonawalla on Sunday said the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine ‘Covishield’ is ready to roll out in the coming weeks. Poonawalla’s remarks came soon after after India’s drugs regulator approved Covishield for restricted emergency use. “Happy new year, everyone! All the risks @SerumInstIndia took with stockpiling the vaccine, have […]
NEW DELHI: The Assam government will distribute around 22,250 scooties (two-wheelers) to girl students free-of-cost to promote girls’ education in the state, Assam Education Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Saturday. The minister after distributing the scooties at a function at Mushalpur in Baksa district, said that free scooties would be given to meritorious girl […]
By Aakanksha Khajuria NEW DELHI: The Central Licensing Authority on Sunday granted permission to Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech to manufacture ‘Covaxin’ for sale and distribution, after the indigenous coronavirus vaccine received regulatory approval for emergency use. “The Central Licensing Authority has granted permission to Bharat Biotech International Ltd to manufacture for sale of the pharmaceutical formulation,” […]
ERODE: The DMK would waive education loans taken by students for higher studies if the party comes to power after the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, which are to be held in April-May. The DMK president and Leader of the Opposition in the Tamil Nadu Assembly M K Stalin made this statement on Sunday while addressing […]
By Surya Desaraju AMARAVATI: The Andhra Pradesh government’s gross debt burden has increased to Rs 3,73,140 crore by the end of November 2020. CAG’s latest accounts revealed that from April to November 2020 alone Rs 73,811.85 crore was borrowed from different sources as against the annual target of Rs 48,295.59 crore for the whole year. […]
BHOPAL: The Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led Madhya Pradesh cabinet was expanded on Sunday with the induction of two loyalists of BJP leader Jyotiraditya Scindia, whose exit from the Congress in March last year led to the fall of the 15-month-old Kamal Nath-led Congress dispensation in the state. Governor Anandiben Patel administered the oath of office to […]
NEW DELHI: As it seeks to become more nimble as well as strengthen its prowess to clamp down on unfair business ways, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) plans to further streamline processes and also have its regional presence. The CCI, which has the mandate to check anti-competitive practices and also encourage fair business ways […]
NEW DELHI: Italian super luxury carmaker Lamborghini expects its sales in India this year to be more than 2019 levels after witnessing good traction in the later part of last year, recovering from the pandemic-induced disruptions, according to a senior company official. The company is hoping that there is no change in the tax structure […]
NEW DELHI: Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) and its partner BP Plc of UK have committed to pay in cash for any natural gas volumes they are unable to deliver to customers from the next wave of discoveries in the eastern offshore KG-D6 block. According to draft gas sales and purchase agreement (GSPA) Reliance and BP […]
