Interview: How should India regulate private healthcare to avoid pitfalls exposed by the pandemic?

Malini Aisola of the All India Drug Action Network talks about what lessons India must learn from the Covid-19 pandemic.

Smitha Nair

· Yesterday · 06:30 am

Interview: What are the chances of reinfection after recovery from Covid-19?

Virologist Shahid Jameel explains.

Smitha Nair

· Sep 16, 2020 · 09:00 am

Interview: ‘Shortage of doctors in rural India will hamper effective response to Covid-19 pandemic’

Dr Yogesh Kalkonde, a neuroimmunologist and public health practitioner in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district talks about the state of rural health systems.

Smitha Nair

· Aug 23, 2020 · 06:30 am

Explainer: What’s needed for immunity from Covid-19 – and do Indians stand a better chance?

An expert debunks some common misconceptions around the body’s immunological response to the coronavirus.

Smitha Nair

· Jul 28, 2020 · 06:30 am

Explainer: How ‘disease detectives’ are battling the coronavirus pandemic

Even epidemiologists are learning as the pandemic progresses.

Smitha Nair

· Jul 15, 2020 · 06:30 am

Explainer: What do we know of remdesivir, favipiravir, dexamethasone and other drugs used for Covid?

A doctor explains how to evaluate repurposed drugs being prescribed to coronavirus patients.

Smitha Nair

· Jul 04, 2020 · 07:00 am

Explainer: Covid-19 vaccine development – and why India has to be a player in this

A virologist explains how vaccines are developed and put through clinical trials.

Smitha Nair

· Jul 01, 2020 · 06:30 am

Special Report: How NIA went soft on Pragya Thakur – and is now delaying the Malegaon trial

Six people were killed in the 2008 bomb blast in which Thakur, the newly elected BJP MP, is the prime accused.

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· Jul 12, 2019 · 09:00 am

Video: A vault, a Produnova, a leap – how 'The Small Wonder' put India on the world gymnastics map

Dipa Karmakar, one of India's big hopes for Tokyo 2020, talks about her journey from acing the balance beam at 8 to the heartbreak of a near medal at Rio.

Smitha Nair

· Jan 01, 2019 · 06:30 am

Video: Making of the Mary Kom legend. How a farm labourer’s daughter punched her way to boxing glory

The Manipuri trailblazer who made history by winning her sixth World Boxing Championship title looks back at the early years in this candid chat

Smitha Nair

· Dec 28, 2018 · 06:30 am

Video: From a list to a movement, how 2018 became the year of reckoning for India’s powerful men

Journalist Sandhya Menon speaks on leading India's #MeToo, the 'due process' debate, the vicious backlash and the way forward.

Smitha Nair

· Dec 27, 2018 · 06:30 am

Video: Debate on integrating Sentinelese, racist & ignorant, says ‘Land of the Naked People’ author

In the third episode, Madhusree Mukerjee, author of the Land of the Naked People, talks about the Sentinelese of the Andaman and Nicobar islands

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Devarsi Ghosh

· Dec 26, 2018 · 06:30 am