When will you and I—and millions of Indians—get vaccinated against Covid-19 for good? Well, the scientific breakthrough will only be the start of an epic struggle...
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Who gets it first? 30 crore people have been identified to get it within a year. The 50-plus, then healthcare workers, police...
Ensuring access to the Covid vaccine is a challenge as it is needed everywhere at the same time.
Union health minister Dr Harsh Vardhan talks about the preparedness of the government’s vaccination programme and expresses...
‘Politicisation of the virus’ may not be a bad thing. It could mean people’s health finally getting the space it deserves in public discourse.
Adar Poonawalla, CEO of Serum Institute, says he’s expecting the Indian trials of the Oxford vaccine to be over in January 2021.
To achieve herd immunity in a 1.38 billion population, we need to cover 828 million people! The truth is: it may take years, and we still...
Opening up J&K’s land to ‘outsiders’ is touted to be a pro-development measure, but restrictions continue in many...
A bunch of legislation protects tribal territories in the Northeast, but the job isn’t finished with the paperwork
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Photographing children in all their cherubic beauty is yielding profits for specialists. And small towns are driving the demand.
Actor, director and writer Makarand Deshpande talks about his love for the stage, the difficult times theatre actors are going through and on his play Sir Sir Sarla to be aired on television
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The real story of how the stunning passage to Lahaul was conceived, planned and engineered. Roerich’s landscapes and Manali’s cafes beckoned, but a Union minister has work to do.
