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Tuesday, November 25, 2025
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Private labs starting TrueNat/CBNAAT tests for Covid to have NABL seal: ICMR tells states

Dr G S Toteja, Additional Director General of ICMR said since many labs are doing this test for the first time, an NABL accreditation will ensure quality testing.

ICMR wants Covid vaccine by 15 August but documents show it’s a 15-month trial

Health experts express concern about crunched timeline, investigators involved in the trial give conflicting responses and data inconsistent with letter.

No need for govt doctor prescription for Covid test, contact-tracing must: Modi govt to states

In a letter Wednesday, govt says efforts should be made to set up camps, using mobile vans, in high incidence areas to collect samples of symptomatic patients and their contacts.

HCQ shows no use as Covid protective drug for health workers, finds Indian study

The study by the Journal of the Association of Physicians of India also found the positivity rate to be slightly higher among subjects who took HCQ.

Dr Raman R Gangakhedkar, face of ICMR in Covid communication, retires today

A paediatrician by training, Dr Gangakhedkar's seminal work is on how Indian women are vulnerable to AIDS because of risky behaviour of husbands.

India records over 18,000 new Covid cases, takes total to over 5 lakh

The number of active cases stands at 1,97, 387 recoveries are at 2,95,880 while the death toll climbed to 15,685.

No ICMR panel or GoM meetings, no briefings — Modi govt ‘retreats’ even as Covid cases surge

The ICMR task force on Covid-19 hasn’t met in over two weeks, while the daily official statement now mentions only good news, not new cases or deaths.

Test police personnel, drivers, shopkeepers for Covid antibodies: New ICMR guidelines

ICMR has also allowed accredited private hospitals and laboratories to conduct rapid antigen tests that give results in less than half an hour.

Plasma therapy: The experimental Covid therapy Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain received

Delhi health minister Satyendar Jain, who is out of the ICU, received the plasma treatment as part of a trial to see the efficacy of the therapy in Covid patients.

First official figures on Covid among healthcare workers in India — 1,073 cases until 23 May

ICMR study on preventive effect of HCQ has broken the government’s silence so far on the prevalence of Covid-19 among healthcare workers.

On Camera

New labour codes make India’s workforce competitive with China—and build Viksit Bharat

By consolidating 29 laws into four codes, compliance is streamlined and regulations are simplified, improving “ease of doing business”. This is bound to improve investor confidence.

Vehicles, TVs, mobile phones—PM EAC report shows Rural India is catching up with urban consumers

Rural ownership of motor vehicles jumped from 19 percent in 2011-2012 to 59 percent in 2023-2024, while urban rose from 40 percent to 68 percent during the same time period, study by two members of PM-EAC says.

India and France to jointly manufacture HAMMER air-to-surface missile

Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.