A drug to treat Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) that costs about Rs 72 lakh per patient per year because of patent protection and absence of local production could be produced for as little as Rs 3,000 per year if India would allow local manufacture. This opinion from a drug costing expert was part of an…
KOLKATA: Kolkata-based filmmaker Sriyanka Ray was posthumously awarded independent Emmy as a director and producer for her short documentary ‘Homeroom Dreams’. The film won the award in the category ‘education/school – short or long form content’. Ray was 33 and passed away from a sudden illness on May 30, 2023, while holidaying in Bolivia.“The film…
NEW DELHI: To make its satellites lighter in future, Isro is going to launch its first home-grown electric propulsion-led spacecraft in Dec, space agency chairman S Somanath announced while also specifying new deadlines for its upcoming key missions like Gaganyaan, Chandrayaan-4 and-5, and Indo-US NISAR satellite project.Delivering the Sardar Patel Memorial Lecture at Akashvani, Somanath…
NEW DELHI: Ahead of state elections in Maharashtra and Jharkhand, RSS has dispelled notions of discord with BJP, particularly following remarks by party president J P Nadda which suggested that BJP was “self-sufficient” and did not require the Sangh’s support.RSS general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale addressed the issue in Mathura, clarifying that the Sangh understood Nadda’s…
Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe on Sunday took a potshot at Vice President Kamala Harris for receiving celebrity endorsements from Hollywood A-listers and compared the Democratic Party with one of Sean “Diddy” Combs’s party and his Freak sessions. Speaking at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally in New York City, Hinchcliffe said, “The other side has a lot…
MUMBAI: Bandra West will see a familiar fight: sitting MLA Ashish Shelar will square off once again with former BMC corporator and Congress member Asif Zakaria. Zakaria had run against Shelar in 2019, too, but lost by a margin of 26,507 votes.Earlier this month, there were reports that former MP Priya Dutt might contest the…
NEW DELHI/PANAJI: The deluge of anonymous online hoax threats causing turbulence in airline operations since mid-Oct continued Sunday, affecting over 50 flights operated by various carriers amid futile attempts by the govt to get social media platforms to filter such messages.IndiGo alone received “security-related alerts” for 18 flights through the day, of which two –…
MUMBAI: Rat trap manufacturers, feeling stuck by notifications calling for a ban on glue boards, have petitioned Bombay high court to have them quashed. The circulars, first issued in August 2011 and in November 2020 by Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI), are “illegal and arbitrary” and have infringed their legal and various fundamental rights,…
TRICHY: Sri Lankan navy arrested 12 Tamil Nadu fishermen and seized their trawler on charges of poaching in Sri Lankan territorial waters off Paruthithurai (Point Pedro) in Jaffna district on Sunday.The fishermen, who had set out to sea from Akkaraipettai in Tamil Nadu’s Nagapattinam district early on Saturday, were taken to Sri Lanka’s Kankesanthurai harbour…
NEW DELHI: Despite a drop in the share of stubble burning in Delhi’s air pollution, the city’s air quality deteriorated sharply to ‘very poor’ on Sunday, with AQI rising over 100 points from ‘poor’ just a day ago.The city’s average AQI rose from 255 on Saturday to 356 and is likely to remain ‘very poor’…
