While the indigenous malaria vaccine, AdFalciVax, is under evaluation, a dengue vaccine is currently in Phase 3 trials with final results expected by the end of next year.
Tuberculosis remains world’s deadliest infectious disease despite being preventable and curable. Around 1.23 million of 10.7 million who developed it in 2024 died, says WHO.
As of mid-2026, no Indian state has achieved TB-free certification. New book explains that Lakshadweep’s achievement did not come through expensive tech or complex interventions.
A new analysis estimates India had 2.22 million TB cases in 2023, while warning that drug-resistant TB continues to undermine global efforts despite falling overall cases and deaths.
ICMR-NIE's TB death-prediction tool, described in a study published in British medical journal The BMJ Open, estimates the probability of early TB death within two months of diagnosis.
Differentiated TB care involves tailoring services to individual needs of patients. Researchers pitch it as a model that can be replicated across the country.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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