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COVID-19 Update

Central government rejects WHO’s estimate of India's COVID deaths

R. Ramachandran

The Indian government has rejected outright the WHO estimate that COVID-19 caused 4.7 million additional deaths in the country in 2020-21 and question

COVID-19 Update

COVID: Too soon to say the worst of the pandemic is behind us

T.K. Rajalakshmi

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COVID excess deaths

COVID casualties: The uncounted dead

T.K. Rajalakshmi

Three separate and spaced exposures to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein confers high immune protection, say scientists in two studies

R. Ramachandran

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COVID-19 Second Wave update: Bihar

Bihar: Death and deceit

As Bihar’s tottering health care system struggles to cope, its political masters remain in isolation, leaving a hapless people to fend for themselve

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Interview: Satyajit Rath

‘Variant tracking an essential part of long-term strategy’: Satyajit Rath

T.K. Rajalakshmi

Interview with Satyajit Rath, immunologist and visiting faculty, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune.

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Siddaramaiah questions Karnataka government’s COVID-19 statistics on deaths, testing and recoveries

VIKHAR AHMED SAYEED

Siddaramaiah, senior Indian National Congress leader and former Karnataka Chief Minister, in a letter to Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa said the peop

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Cover Story: COVID-19 Second Wave

Dr Anurag Agrawal: ‘Global surveillance is important’

T.K. Rajalakshmi

Interview with Dr Anurag Agrawal, Director, Institute of Genomic and Integrative Biology.

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Cover Story: COVID-19 Second Wave

India’s gigantic death toll due to COVID-19 is thrice the official numbers

Some seven million people worldwide have died in the pandemic, almost double the official reports. More than 6.5 lakh Indians, not the 2.25 lakh repor

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Government's all round failure to manage pandemic exposed

T.K. Rajalakshmi

Latest COVID-19 infection numbers indicate that the second wave may have hit a plateau, but despite the crisis being nowhere near the end, the Modi re

COVID-19 Second Wave: Punjab

Punjab: Worrying spread in COVID second wave

Punjab sees COVID reach rural areas, which were largely unaffected by the first wave of the pandemic.

COVID-19 Second wave: Goa

In battle of egos between Sawant and Rane, people lose

ANUPAMA KATAKAM

The shortage of vaccines and oxygen weakens the fight against COVID in Goa and the conflict between the Chief Minister and Health Minister does not he

COVID-19 Second Wave

The fiasco that is India’s COVID-19 vaccine policy

The Modi government’s decision to deregulate vaccine procurement and deliveries, just as the vaccine rollout runs into a supply constraint, threaten

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Interview: Ramanan Laxminarayan, economist and epidemiologist

Ramanan Laxminarayan: ‘Vaccination the only way out of the pandemic’

T.K. Rajalakshmi

Interview with Ramanan Laxminarayan, economist and epidemiologist.

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Government to procure 1,50,000 units of the Oxycare system developed by DRDO for treatment of COVID-19 patients

The Central government has decided to procure 1,50,000 units of the ‘Oxycare’ system developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisatio

Oxygen availability in Goa ‘quite grim’, alarming rise in the number of COVID fatalities in the last two days

ANUPAMA KATAKAM

On May 11, a total of 26 deaths occurred between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit at the Goa Medical College (GMC). Health Minist

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Behemoth studios in the era of pan-Indian films

Yash Raj Films used to set trends, not follow them. Can it turn the tide?

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Captured in time

As independent India turns 75, some of the defining images of those seven decades.