Pune firm first in India to get govt funding for COVID-19 vaccine

Seagull Biosolutions is the first company the government is financially backing for coronavirus vaccine efforts. It will also produce at-home test kits for Covid-19 that can detect even asymptomatic infections.

You are receiving this email because you signed up at Economictimes.com. In case, you wish to Unsubscribe Click here

THE ECONOMIC TIMES NEWS DIGEST Sun, Apr 12, 2020 | 04:00 PM IST

Dear Reader, here are top stories of the day.

Industry Pune firm first in India to get govt funding for COVID-19 vaccine Seagull Biosolutions is the first company the government is financially backing for coronavirus vaccine efforts. It w... IHC says some staff tested positive The company, which is hosting at its premium hotels doctors and other health workers who are on the frontline of batt... Lockdown has had disastrous impact on hospitality sector; govt support needed: Industry Going ahead, occupancy in India is going to be very low. So hotels will have to either shutdown or run in a very limi...

Today's Highlights What is helicopter money and why is it in news? This is an unconventional monetary policy tool. It involves printing money and distributing it to the public. Milton ... Govt to set up 20L shops to provide daily essentials The Suraksha Stores initiative will convert the neighbourhood kirana stores into sanitised retail outlets selling dai... Did Trump play down virus warnings from intelligence? The report in The New York Times revealed that there were warnings from the intelligence community, national security...

News View:A 100-year chance to shake up debt and taxes Corporate rescue this time may also involve a rewriting of accounting rules to encourage deleveraging, so that bailou... From namaste to corona drugs, West is looking to East for survival tips Once we brought back Camay soaps. Now we bring back the virus. "Foreign-returned" has acquired a patina of suspicion ... Modi explains the logic behind lifting HCQ ban Prime Minister Narendra Modi insisted that India help out other countries that need hydroxycholoroquine rather than o...

NRI Indian-origin doctors stuck b/w visa and corona worries The US health system relies heavily on immigrants like Sujit Vakkalanka, who make up 17% of all health care workers i... Desi CEO may be among several Indian victims in US An Indian-American CEO of a New Jersey-based pharmaceutical company may be among scores of coronavirus victims from t...

Tech Prolonged lockdown may result in job cuts in IT industry: Former NASSCOM prez NASSCOM former president R Chandrashekhar said the work-from-home systems being adopted by several firms across the ...

RISE Oyo says WeWork's failures changed everything It is not as if the signs of trouble for the hotel chain have only started now. Trouble had been brewing at Oyo even ...

Jobs Delayed appraisals, job loss fears increase anxiety Experts said there is high stress that the current crisis has brought upon employees as well as organisations, and wi...

Follow Us on ET:

About us|Advertise with us|Feedback|Sitemap|Code of Ethics © 2020 Times Internet Limited. Our mailing address is: Economictimes.com (Times Center), FC - 6, Sector 16 A, Film City, Noida - 201301 Uttar Pradesh, India

To ensure delivery directly to your inbox, please add newsletter@economictimesnews.com to your address book today. If you are having trouble viewing this newsletter, please click here

To unsubscribe or edit your subscriptions please click here