BENGALURU (Reuters) – Zydus Cadila on Thursday launched the cheapest generic version of Gilead Sciences’ antiviral drug remdesivir in India to treat COVID-19 following reports of shortages at hospitals in the world’s third-worst hit nation. Zydus has priced it at 2,800 rupees ($37.44) per 100mg vial. It will be sold under the brand name Remdac […]
Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration has filed a motion asking a court to dismiss a lawsuit against the president’s executive order targeting social media companies, calling it a “profound misunderstanding,” according to a copy of the motion seen by Reuters. The lawsuit was brought in June by the Center for Democracy and […]
Samuel Shen, Winni Zhou, Kevin Yao SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) – A sharp escalation in tensions with the United States has stoked fears in China of a deepening financial war that could result in it being shut out of the global dollar system – a devastating prospect once considered far-fetched but now not impossible. FILE PHOTO: Chinese Yuan and […]
A crowd had gathered outside KG Halli police station on Friday night demanding MLA Akhanda Srinivasa Murthy’s relative be arrested for a derogatory Facebook post. By Meryl Sebastian Three people were killed in police firing after violence broke out in East Bengaluru on Tuesday in protest against a social media post by a Congress MLA’s […]
Three journalists from The Caravan magazine say they were physically assaulted by a mob in Subhash Mohalla in northeast-Delhi on Tuesday. By Betwa Sharma NEW DELHI —Three journalists from The Caravan magazine say they were physically assaulted by a mob in Subhash Mohalla in northeast-Delhi on Tuesday afternoon. At 11:52 pm on Tuesday, Hartosh Singh Bal, political […]
Greene overwhelmingly defeated her opponent in the heavily Republican 14th Congressional District. By Dominique Mosbergen, HuffPost US Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has faced condemnation from House Republican leaders for creating racist Facebook videos and embracing QAnon conspiracy theories, has won the runoff for Georgia’s 14th Congressional District. Greene overwhelmingly defeated her opponent, John Cowan — amassing […]
Stay up to date as we cover the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and its effects across the world. HuffPost Staff HuffPost Since Chinese officials implemented the first coronavirus lockdown in the city of Wuhan in January, there have been more than 20.2 million cases of COVID-19 across the planet. More than 741,000 people have died from the disease, according […]
Redstone’s media empire included CBS and Viacom. NEW YORK (Reuters) – Viacom and CBS Chairman Emeritus Sumner Redstone, the media mogul who took his father’s movie theater chain and built it into an empire that included Paramount Pictures, CBS and MTV, has died at 97, ViacomCBS and National Amusements said on Wednesday. Redstone, as executive […]
Vivek Mishra BENGALURU (Reuters) – India’s retail inflation edged up slightly in July due to higher food prices, remaining firmly above the RBI’s medium-term target of 4% for a 10th straight month, a Reuters poll showed. A woman wearing a protective face mask and gloves waits for customers at her vegetable shop outside a slum […]
Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber, Vladimir Soldatkin MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia had become the first country in the world to grant regulatory approval to a COVID-19 vaccine after less than two months of human testing, a move hailed by Moscow as evidence of its scientific prowess. The vaccine still has to complete […]
