Author Archives: Nikita Agrawal

India Undergoes Complete Lockdown for 21 Days

Total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in India has crossed the 500-mark New coronavirus cases reported in Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh Death toll in India mounts to 10 after man from Tamil Nadu dies In an unprecedented move, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi complete lockdown of India for 21 days to fight coronavirus […]

VF Corporation: Global Business Impact of Coronavirus Outbreak

The global spread of coronavirus is continuously making a negative impact on the fashion industry. The outbreak has compelled major brands to shut their stores, cut their operating hours, and even postponed and canceled major fashion events. This has impacted the sales of fashion-based retailers in North America and across the globe. VF Corporation on […]

BYD Opens World’s Largest Mask Production Facility

The automaker company in China, BYD Co. has become the largest producer of the face mask across the globe. The Shenzhen facility of the company in China now produces five million masks every day and is now planning to further expand capacity. The manufacturing plant also produces more than 300,000 bottles of disinfectants a day. […]

Timeline-Impact of COVID-19 Outbreak on Global Fashion Industry

A global area of concern, the COVID-19 outbreak has quickly become an international topic of discussion. While the impact of sudden outbreak of the virus on industry such as entertainment, travel, and technology are widely known, lifestyle industries such as fashion is not remained untouched. Fashion events that were scheduled to take place in or […]

Pfizer To Jointly Develop Covid-19 Vaccine with BioNTech

Pfizer and BioNTech will be jointly developing BioNTech’s mRNA-based vaccine candidate BNT162 for preventing COVID-19 infection Collaboration with an aim to accelerate global development of BNT162. They will be leveraging expertise and resources of both companies Builds on 2018 agreement for the development of an mRNA-based influenza vaccine Pfizer Inc., joint hands with BioNTech SE […]

Cobas SARS-CoV-2 Test of Roche receives FDA Emergency Use Authorization

First commercial test for SARS-CoV-2 to meet urgent medical needs Testing on widely available, high-volume Cobas 6800/8800 will significantly increase available testing capacity Roche expedites test development for supporting urgent need for patient testing during pandemic outbreak for avoiding a further spread of the virus at an early stage of infection March 13, 2020- Roche […]

Biocon-Mylan Won Patent Case Against Sanofi Over Insulin Glargine Device in The Us

Biopharmaceutical firm Biocon is one step closer to commercialize its glargine biosimilar Semglee in the US. Biopharmaceutical giant Biocon announced on March 11, 2020, that it with its partner Mylan won a litigation in a US court that has invalidated a Sanofi patent on a device for delivering insulin glargine. This makes it easy for […]

New Digital Hub in Hyderabad, India- Novartis AG

Novartis Biome India, based in Hyderabad, is one of the four Novartis Biomes, following its launches in San Francisco (United States), Paris (France) and London (United Kingdom) Global Pharma giant Novartis AG launched a digital innovation hub, Biome India in Hyderabad on February 18, 2020. This is the first such center of the company in […]

China Deliberately Delaying Indian Air Force C-17 Globemaster to Evacuate Indians from COVID-19-Affected City: Wuhan

The largest plane of the Indian Air Force C-17 Globemaster was scheduled for flying to Wuhan city of China on February 20, 2020, for evacuating Indians. China delaying the flight that tend to evacuate Indians on purpose China is delaying grant of clearance to the proposal of India for sending an Indian Air Force flight […]

How Different Countries Responded to the Wuhan Corona Virus Outbreak?

The countries across the globe have closed their borders to arrivals from China, in order to prevent the spread of the deadly corona virus. The US and Australia have decided to restrict the entry to all the foreign visitors who had been in China recently. Earlier, the countries such as Japan, Pakistan, Russia, and Italy […]

China Completed Construction of an Emergency Hospital in Just 10 Days

China just finished the construction of an emergency hospital to fight against corona virus in Wuhan. The construction was started on 23rd January 2020, and the last brick was laid on 2nd February 2020. The hospital is built on an area of 25,000 square meters and has 1,000 beds. The hospital will be operated by […]

Corona-virus Closes Gates of China to the World

The isolation of China amid the corona-virus outbreak is rippling globally. The virus has infected over 14,500 people, which in turn, has disrupted global trade and supply chains depressed asset prices, and forced multinationals for making hard decisions with limited information. The US and the government of Europe and Asia are enforcing new regulations for […]

In-Flight Entertainment to Debut in Trains: India

Indian Railways is now creating movies and video streaming app. The passengers will have access to the free or subscription-based entertainment app. Also, the passengers will be able to access high-speed streaming in their personal devices. Highlights The streaming app will be available in all the premium, suburban, mail and express trains. The project will […]

Fujifilm Joins Hands with Max Healthcare Super Specialty Hospital for Training Doctors

Fujifilm India, an imaging solutions company has inked a partnership with Max Healthcare super specialty hospital in the National Capital on October 15, 2019 for training doctors in detection of breast cancer and advance diagnostics at its super specialty hospital in Saket, New Delhi. Under the deal, Fujifilm will sponsor an advanced six-month fellowship with […]

Thousands of Amazon Staff Walked Out of Job- Forcing CEO to Take a Massive Step

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Amazon’s fleet is electrifying! The company is thrilled to announce the largest order of electric delivery vehicles in the history. The company ordered 10,000 electric delivery vehicles on 19 September 2019 from Rivian, an electric-vehicle startup that is focusing on trucks and SUVs. This order is a part of Climate Pledge of the Amazon which […]

Augmented Reality: Bringing Music to Life

If you keep even a bit of interest in music, you might have heard of the term ’streaming’. Streaming was the major savior of the music industry back in 2016, and since then, the industry witnessed a continuous growth in revenue, thanks to services like Spotify and Apple Music. It’s a fact that streaming has […]