Sunder Pichai, Punit Renjen, and Shantanu Narayen have been active in organizing the response of US companies to the COVID-19 crisis in India. Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai, and other two America-Indian CEO – Puneet Renjen from Deloitte, and Shantanu Narayen from Adobe have joined the steering committee of the Global ...
Read More »The US supplies vaccine components to India to make 20 million Covishield doses
Biden administration announced to provide the raw material for the production of coronavirus vaccine to medical aid in India. The US said on Wednesday that the vaccine components made available to India this week will enable the manufacture of 20 million doses of Covishield vaccine, while the sixth shipment of ...
Read More »Around 155 Million People suffer from food crisis globally during COVID-19 pandemic
The global hunger rate is rising due to COVID epidemic outbreak in 2020. The deteriorating situation highlights how the epidemic has exacerbated food inequalities around the world. In 2020, the world faced a worst hunger problem in last five years due to coronavirus outbreak and outlook is serious again this ...
Read More »MPs urge Joe Biden to not support India’s TRIPS waiver proposal at WTO: COVID-19 crisis
The 12 Congressmen said in a letter to US Trade Representative Katherine Tai, if America gives up intellectual property rights, it will hurt innovation and production, and result in fewer people being vaccinated. Twelve Republican lawmakers have urged the Biden administration not to endorse a resolution by India and South ...
Read More »Pfizer shipping US-made COVID-19 vaccines to Mexico, Canada
According to Reuters, Pfizer began exporting COVID-19 vaccines to Mexico last week which were made at its US plant in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The news outlet reported that last week’s shipment marked the first time that Pfizer had delivered the U.S. following the Trump administration’s ban on the export of vaccines; ...
Read More »MasterCard donates around $ 9 million to install portable beds in India
MasterCard, a leading global payments company, has donated $ 8.9 million to the American India Foundation, a New York-based nonprofit, to install 2,000 portable beds in India, recovering from the deadly wave of COVID-19. AIF announced on Friday, “MasterCard has allowed an incredible $ 8.9 million for AIF COVID-19 Response ...
Read More »Germany will negotiate the purchase of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine bilaterally
Germany is willing to negotiate a bilateral contract with the manufacturer of the Russian vaccine Sputnik V, Health Minister Jens Spahn told the WDR broadcaster on Thursday. Germany has been trying for weeks to get the European Commission to centrally negotiate an agreement with Moscow so that the Russian preparation ...
Read More »Germany: AstraZeneca vaccinations resumes in country after clot scare
AstraZeneca resumed the vaccination with coronavirus vaccine in Germany on Friday, following a recommendation by European regulators that the benefits of the shot outweigh the risks. On Thursday, the European Medicine Agency shared information that the vaccine is safe, but it cannot rule out a link to a small number ...
Read More »UK set to new counter-terrorism center, says biological, nuclear or chemical attack likely
Britain said on Tuesday that it would build a new homeland security headquarters to improve its response to a “major threat” from terrorism, a breakthrough chemical, biological, or nuclear likely to occur by the end of the decade. In its integrated review, which meets the priorities of the country’s post-Brexit ...
Read More »UK: massive protest against Sarah Everard’s Murder, clashes with police over violation of COVID rules
London: People across the country, including London, are angry after the Sarah Everard Case in the United Kingdom Protest. On Saturday, a clash broke out between the people and the police, who were protesting against the murder of the victim Sarah Everard in London by violating the Corona Virus Rules ...
Read More »