Author: Joymala Bagchi

NEW DELHI: As the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) tightened its probe against officials of Biocon Biologics Limited over the alleged Rs 4 lakh bribe scandal, to waive off the Phase III clinical trial of its underdeveloped product Insulin Aspart Injection, health experts have expressed deep concerns over India’s dependency on insulin and the rising […]

NEW DELHI: Their story reminds one of the once-famous song ‘Saat Samundar Paar…’ from Vishwatma, a film that launched the late Divya Bharti in 1992. Leslie Delgado transcends all boundaries – mental, physical, imaginary, political, cultural and language along with COVID restrictions – as she flew down from Mexico to marry Arijit Bhattacharya on Sunday. […]

NEW DELHI: In an interesting twist to the opposition’s quest for a Presidential poll candidate, former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) man Yashwant Sinha emerged as a consensus candidate. It was necessitated after Gopalkrishna Gandhi on Monday declined Mamata Banerjee’s offer to contest the Presidential election as their candidate. Sources told The New Indian that few […]

NEW DELHI: With an estimated 1.8 million cases, India came second behind Nigeria in the list of countries with the most sickle cell disease (SCD). The worst affected is our impoverished tribal population which reported 1.4 million cases. An inherited blood disorder, SCD is characterised by repeated episodes of debilitating pain. It can lead to […]

  NEW DELHI: As protests against the military recruitment scheme ‘Agnipath’ intensified in several parts of India, the Centre on Saturday announced a 10 per cent reservation for ‘Agniveers’, the recruits in the defence ministry jobs. The reservation will be implemented in the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) and defence civilian posts, and all the 16 […]

NEW DELHI: Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin has proven to be ‘safe, well-tolerated, and highly immunogenic’ in children in Phase II/III studies, the results of which are published in the prestigious Lancet journal. The study said that the data from over 50 million doses given to children in India reveals that side effects are minimal. The trials […]

NEW DELHI: A 10-member parliamentary delegation from the Trinamool Congress (TMC) met Union rural development minister Giriraj Singh on Thursday, demanding the clearance of pending wages under the MGNREGA scheme to West Bengal on Thursday. TMC said that an amount of Rs 7,130 crore under the MGNREGA scheme is pending from December 26 till date. […]

NEW DELHI: The curious case of Ketaki Chitale took a new turn when the National Commission for Women (NCW) issued a notice to the Director General of Police, Maharashtra to appear in person before the Commission. The Marathi actor was arrested last month for allegedly sharing a post on social media against NCP Chief Sharad […]

  NEW DELHI: A delegation of Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress (TMC) is scheduled to meet Election Commission of India (ECI) officials here on Thursday over the issue of political violence in run-up to bypolls in Tripura. A delegation of six-party MPs will visit the ECI office to submit a memorandum in connection with the horrific […]

NEW DELHI: In a worrying escalation of COVID cases across the country, India has recorded 12,213 new cases in the last 24 hours. In an alarming sign, this is the first time since February 26 the country had seen a single-day surge of more than 10,000 cases. On Wednesday, the Union health ministry reported 8,822 […]