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Topic: Virology

HIV, polio, now Covid — How CMC Vellore has been leading healthcare & research for 121 yrs

Mohana Basu - June 21, 2021

First open heart surgery, first detection of HIV in blood sample, first reconstructive surgery for leprosy, first bone marrow transplant — CMC Vellore has long list of firsts in medical health.

If we want to beat Covid, we have to think like virologists

Grace C Roberts - November 1, 2020

Virologists regularly handle large quantities of virus in much more concentrated forms than we would encounter in the outside world.

My virologist dad says coronavirus vaccines won’t be ready for distribution till 2021

Guido Vanham - April 15, 2020

By compressing decades of virology R&D, we can say that SARS-CoV2 vaccine may not be ready before 12-18 months. And even then, we must be lucky every step of way.

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This era has made journalistic independence harder than ever: New York Times publisher

AG Sulzberger - November 12, 2025

Journalist Arthur Gregg Sulzberger delivered the Reuters Memorial Lecture on 4 March last year.

Air purifiers are the new water filters. Delhi has quietly accepted a crisis

November 12, 2025

There’s a new M-Y formula at work in Bihar this time

November 12, 2025

Economy

Inflation plunges to a 10-yr low of 0.25% in October. Here’s why

Sampurna Panigrahi - November 12, 2025

Record-low inflation gives RBI room to ease rates. Food prices have something to do with it.

Defence

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

Keshav Padmanabhan - November 5, 2025

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

National Interest

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Shekhar Gupta - November 8, 2025

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.

Topic: Virology

On Camera

YourTurn

Guidelines for YourTurn submissions

Opinion

This era has made journalistic independence harder than ever: New York Times publisher

Air purifiers are the new water filters. Delhi has quietly accepted a crisis

There’s a new M-Y formula at work in Bihar this time

Economy

Inflation plunges to a 10-yr low of 0.25% in October. Here’s why

Defence

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

National Interest

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

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