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Friday, December 12, 2025
TopicVaccines

Topic: vaccines

BJP has its post-second wave politics ready — from perception to expectation management

Rahul Gandhi may be pointing fingers at vaccine shortage, but if the PM knows one thing it is fixing delivery before polls.

YourTurn/SubscriberWrites: Eliminate need for tzar of vaccines — pricing freedom will fix Covid-19 vaccine shortage

Rajanikant Mohan says companies currently have no incentive to invest the capital needed to increase vaccine production.

India’s artillery modernisation programme must not go the vaccine way

Rather than working in silos, the Army and the govt must look at the fastest way possible to realise Field Artillery Rationalisation Programme, designed in 1999.

Moderna, CanSino — Covid created 9 new vaccine billionaires. But most poor don’t have a shot

The net wealth of the new vaccine billionaires is enough to buy enough vaccines to fully inoculate everyone in sub-Saharan Africa.

India’s other vaccine mess: Modi govt lost hundreds of crores on faulty shots for cows in 2019/20

A Modi govt programme to vaccinate livestock for foot-and-mouth disease hit a wall in 2020 after all the vaccine batches were recalled from states/UTs over quality concerns.

SMS sent, no. of people registered, poetry — India’s health minister is busy this pandemic

You want data? Dr Harsh Vardhan’s Twitter timeline will drown you in it — from number of SMS’ sent via CoWin to number of vaccines sent to states.

Modi speaks to Australian counterpart Scott Morrison on access to equitable vaccines & medicines

During the call, PM Modi also sought Australia's support for initiative taken at WTO by India & South Africa to seek a temporary waiver in this context, as per the PMO.

DC to Delhi — 5 reasons why Biden admin changed its mind on helping Covid-struck India

From ‘America first’, the Biden administration took a quick U-turn to offering support to India in its time of Covid crisis. But why the belated reply?

Amit Shah must desist from jeopardising India’s relations with Bangladesh for BJP’s gains

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DBT to Punjab farmers for wheat are reformist. Too much in India runs on spoken word

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On Camera

IndiGo cancellations made TV news do the unexpected — question the Modi government

Republic TV was the harshest of them all: “The (civil aviation) minister has done a bad job,” said prime time anchor Arnab Goswami.

IndiGo’s profits dipped, most airlines sunk into losses last fiscal even as flier numbers soared

Despite growing passenger volume, 11 out of 14 carriers reported losses in 2023-24. IndiGo recorded profit of Rs 8,167 crore, which reduced to Rs 7.253 crore in 2024-25.

US clears $686-mn package to breathe fresh life into Pakistani F-16s

Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).

Asim Munir & Pakistan’s Failed Marshal Doctrine

None of Pakistan’s PMs has lasted 5 years. That the current PM has given Asim Munir 5 years shows that of all military dictatorships history has seen, Pakistan’s is most creative.