ICMR chief Dr Balram Bargava says teachers should be the first to be vaccinated. He also says India will assist any country that wants to use CoWIN app for their vaccination programme.
Officials say India 'will not be in a rush', and Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka will get ‘priority’ after domestic demand for the Covid vaccines is fulfilled.
Even as vaccine makers have clarified that pork products are not part of the vaccines, pork-derived gelatin is known to be used as stabilisers for safe storage and transportation.
The joint statement comes after Bharat Biotech MD Dr Krishna Ella hit out at Serum CEO Adar Poonawalla’s comment that only Pfizer, Moderna, Oxford vaccines were effective.
Adar Poonawalla, CEO of Serum Institute of India, says the govt restrictions ‘will be eased out very soon once the most vulnerable population starts getting vaccinated’.
Delhi Covid taskforce member Dr Suneela Garg tells ThePrint about the vaccine roll out plan in the national capital, who can register and how the process will work.
The Modi govt must not damage India’s competitive advantage in vaccines & pharmaceuticals through absurd benchmarks that will not be trusted by other countries.
The CoWIN app is not yet public, but has utilities for every level of user — from civil servants to public health system managers, vaccinators, and potential beneficiaries.
Bharat Biotech MD Dr Krishna Ella says they gave ‘excellent safety data tested on around 25,000 participants’ & their efficacy data will be available by February-March.
Mamdani’s politics feels unusual compared to India’s current climate. He unapologetically foregrounds Muslim identity at a time when doing so in India invites scrutiny.
On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
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