New Delhi: Given the rapid increase in COVID-19 cases, the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned that the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is “nowhere near over”. India is no exception here. For the past ...

Precaution is arguably one of the most misunderstood and misrepresented issues in the global politics of science and technology. Misunderstood, because precaution is so often wrongly asserted to be ...

The concept of risk has had quite an impressive run in the last decade. The word ‘risk’ has found its way into the vocabulary of every field, spanning from politics, to economics, education and even ...

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. The reason why the sage has no defects Is because he treats defects as defects. Thus, he has no ...

Covid Booster/Precaution Dose: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday announced the precaution or booster dose of Covid-19 for the eligible population amid Omicron variant scare. Precaution doses will ...

Precautionary approaches to governance of emerging technology, which call for constraints on the use of technology whose potential harms and other outcomes are highly uncertain, are often criticized ...

India on Sunday began administering precaution dose of Covid-19 vaccines to all aged above 18 years, who have completed nine months since the administration of their second dose, at private ...

The National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI) has recommended that those who need to travel overseas can take the precaution dose of Covid vaccine as required by the country they are ...

The Centre on Saturday told the states that the precaution dose will be of the same Covid-19 vaccine as the one used for the administration of the first two doses and that private vaccination centres ...