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Wednesday, November 19, 2025
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Topic: Bloomberg wire

Second-generation Covid vaccines are built for impact over speed

Preventing more infections, provide lasting immunity, protect older and more vulnerable people are benefits front-runners in the vaccine race may not be able to deliver.

Roche says demand for RT-PCR tests for Covid exceeds production

Swiss pharma giant Roche said it prioritises sending tests based on medical needs. It is also ramping up production of antibody tests.

California University, where Covid research is on, paid $1.14 million ransom to hackers

The intrusion was detected as recently as 1 June. The university confirmed that the attack didn’t impede its Covid-19 work.

Expect India’s oil demand to recover from Covid shock by second quarter: Dharmendra Pradhan

Amid lockdown, demand for transportation and industrial fuels plummeted by as much as 70%, but India is confident things will look up faster than projected.

Not just key data, but US’ Covid fatality rate could be missing the big picture

Experts say it's too soon to say whether the lower number of deaths with respect to higher number of cases is proof that the health crisis is under control.

Unilever, Coke, Honda, Hershey — Growing list of Facebook ad boycotts is hurting Zuckerberg

Companies joined a campaign against Facebook, which has been criticised for failing to adequately police hateful and misleading content on its platform.

Facebook, under heat for allowing misleading content, will now label all voting related posts

The new policy on voting means Facebook will label future posts from US President Trump, and everyone else, about mail-in ballots or other voting-related issues.

Facebook plunge sees megacap tech stocks group Fangs suffer worst dip

The amalgamation of internet stocks that has for three months been indestructible dropped more than 4% Friday, the group’s worst session since Covid struck.

‘Simpsons’ to stop having white actors voice non-white characters

Hollywood has been reevaluating its practices after nationwide protests forced a racial-justice reckoning for the entertainment industry.

Thailand’s Covid-19 vaccines human trials could start by October

If this vaccine reaches clinical trials, it’ll be among the first done outside high-income countries to reach that stage.

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India has to move on now. Engage with ‘Nooton Bangladesh’

Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has, in a sense, tasted her own medicine. The International Crimes Tribunal, the special court she instituted for...

The day Dharmendra ‘died’

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.

Drone manufacturer ideaForge wins orders worth over Rs 100 crore from Army

ideaForge has formed a joint venture to manufacture and market UAVs in the US. Its Q6 UAV is now included in NATO and allied procurement systems.

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.