Month: April 2021

MSD has signed agreements with Cipla Ltd., Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, Emcure Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Hetero Labs Ltd. and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd

MSD Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Merck Sharp & Dohme and known as Merck & Co., Inc., has entered into non-exclusive voluntary licensing agreements with five top Indian generic manufacturers for supply of molnupiravir, an investigational oral antiviral agent currently being studied in a Phase-3 trial for the treatment of non-hospitalised patients with confirmed COVID-19, in India.

Indian echoes at the 93rd Academy Awards, a social distancing event held in the shadow of the pandemic, were faint but distinct.

“My Octopus Teacher”, which has Indian filmmaker Swati Thiyagarajan as associate producer and production manager, won the best documentary feature at the Oscars, which also honoured actor Irrfan Khan and costume designer Bhanu in its ‘In Memoriam’ segment.

Indian echoes at the 93rd Academy Awards, a social distancing event held in the shadow of the pandemic, were faint but distinct.

“We won!!! Best documentary feature Oscar!!!,” Thiyagarajan, who has also written “Born Wild: Journey into the Wild Hearts of India and Africa”, tweeted after “My Octopus Teacher” bagged the Oscar.

Automobile industry veteran and former Managing Director of Maruti Suzuki India (then Maruti Udyog Ltd) Jagdish Khattar passed away on Monday due to cardiac arrest.

For 15 years, Ravi Pathak has earned livelihood from the jungles as a guide in Tiger Safaris of  the Bandhavgarh National Park-Tiger Reserve in Umaria district of Madhya Pradesh. It’s now time for him to pay back to the same jungles and wild animals, including tigers.

The device, which is estimated to cost less than Rs 20,000, can provide 93-95 per cent pure oxygen with a flow rate of up to 3 litre/minute

U.K.-based international NGO launched the challenge to find entrepreneurs with innovative ideas to help reduce or recycle waste and create green employment opportunities

Guwahati is among two urban centres in Asia — and three across the continents — featuring in a zero-waste cities challenge launched by U.K.-based international NGO WasteAid to find entrepreneurs with innovative ideas that help reduce or recycle and create green employment opportunities

Vivek Bendre, The Hindu’s senior Mumbai-based photojournalist, lost his battle against the coronavirus on Sunday morning. He was 59 and is survived by his wife.

A richly researched travelogue along the Buddhist corridor in Afghanistan and Pakistan reminds readers of the vibrant pre-Islamic heritage of the region