Drug major Roche India on Monday announced the launch of its first batch of antibody cocktail against COVID-19 in India. The antibody cocktail -- Casirivimab and Imdevimab -- is priced at Rs 59,750 per dose. The Roche's antibody cocktail was given to then US President Donald Trump when he contracted COVID-19 last year. In a statement, the company said: "Each...
By Prakash Bhandari The demon of corona engulfed the Pahadia couple. After the death of Rajasthan’s former Chief minister Jagannath Pahadia in a hospital in Gurgaon, his wife, Shanti Pahadia, who was a member of the Rajya Sabha and twice served as legislator of the Rajasthan Assembly also passed away because of corona. Shanti Pahadia was in the same hospital and was on...
Intro: The health emergency has exposed the socio-cultural degradation of many in Indian society, a society that prided itself and genuinely so for its inheritance of moral and spiritual legacies. By DC Pathak The deadly second wave of Covid-19 has provoked an intense public debate and anger on the reasons why it was allowed to hit...
New Delhi: India's covid-19 crisis is devastating its most desperate people, The Economist said in a report. The poor are losing jobs, going hungry and falling victim to scams, it added. "Pye dogs and circling scavengers gave the first clue. When villagers approached the riverbank, the stench confirmed the horror. By the time authorities collected and buried...
Popular cryptocurrency Ethereum’s co-founder Vitalik Buterin has donated over $1 billion in cryptocurrency to the India Covid Relief Fund and a range of other charities, a report in Forbes said. Buterin made the donation by offloading massive amounts of dog-themed meme tokens, which were gifted to him by the creators of the Shiba Inu coin, Dogelon, and Akita Inu. These cryptocurrencies have...
Congressman Ami Bera, the longest-serving Indian-American in the Congress, met Vice President Kamala Harris at the White House here to discuss the COVID-19 crisis in India. "I appreciate the opportunity to speak directly with Vice President Harris about the ongoing COVID-19 crisis in India," Bera said a day after he joined a May 11 Congressional...
New York: All students returning to in-person instruction at SUNY and CUNY schools statewide this fall must be vaccinated against COVID-19, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced Monday, while Hofstra University said it would institute the same requirement beginning in September. Hofstra's move covers all students except those who are in fully online or remote programs. There...
New York: The American India Foundation (AIF), which was founded in the aftermath of the Gujarat earthquake at the initiative of the then US president Bill Clinton and the then Prime Minister late Atal Bihari Vajpayee, has raised $25 million as Covid-19 aid, making it the highest amount raised by an Indian-American non-profit body. "So far,...
New Jersey: Indian Health Camp of New Jersey – IHCNJ, a non-profit organization organized COVID-19 vaccine drives at Balaji Temple in Bridgewater on May 1, 2021 and Swaminarayan Temple in South Brunswick on May 8, 2021, where about 100 people received vaccinations offered by Ritesh Shah of Legacy Pharmacy Group – Bayshore and Ramtown Pharmacy. Both the temple...
