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Deregulation: Licence to Loot Raj

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India impossibly short of vaccinating its entire adult population against COVID-19 by the end of 2021

India’s vaccination drive rests on a wing and a prayer as it looks set to miss the target of vaccinating all adults by the end of the year.

Insurance and public sector bank employees protesting against the Union Budget, in Kochi on February 2.

Modi government's decision to privatise United India Insurance indicates terrible consequences for general insurance sector

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A vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.

Dismantling regulatory mechanisms governing vaccines

Having blundered on the COVID-19 vaccine front, the Narendra Modi government now appears to be pandering to the demands of the vaccine multinationals.

At a dispensary in north Delhi, people wait to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

Eminent scientists, doctors, researchers and activists demand quick revival of PSUs to spur India’s slackening vaccine drive

More than 200 eminent scientists, doctors, academics and health activists demanded on June 1 that the Union government “urgently expand” national capa

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Interview with Dr Satyajit Rath, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune.

Dr Hemanth Nandigala: ‘You cannot quicken the process of manufacturing vaccines too much’

Interview with Dr Hemanth Nandigala, managing director, Virchow Biotech Private Limited.

The second consignment of Sputnik V vaccine arrives at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad on May 16.

COVID-19: Vaccine follies

The Indian COVID-19 vaccine story is a string of missteps based on the Modi government’s exaggerated claims of exceptionalism, grounded in voodoo noti

Dipankar Mukherjee.

'The hike is against assurance to Parliament'

Interview with Dipankar Mukherjee, CPI(M) MP. Published in the issue dated July 29, 2005.

People in personal protective clothing at the crematorium in Chamarajpet in Bengaluru on May 13 to perform the last rites of their relatives.

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

an Announcement outside a vaccination centre in Mumbai on April 30.

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, threatens

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