09 Jul 2021 Vaccine development, before COVID-19, took years or decades. A look at the brief history of vaccine development[1] shows how far we have come. Since the advent of COVID-19, it did not take even a year to develop the first COVID-19 vaccine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine was the first vaccine to…
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Select Integrating Western Region into Global Value Chains Integrating Western Region into Global Value Chains
05 Jul 2021 The year 2020 will go down in history not only as a year of adversity but also one that witnessed the indomitable human spirit to find a cure, while simultaneously battling COVID-19. Today, India is witnessing fewer cases, given the standardized treatment protocols, progressing vaccination drive and…
Select Indo-Pacific Business Summit Indo-Pacific Business Summit
02 Jul 2021 The concept of an Indo-Pacific construct gained currency around 2010, in response to a growing and urgent recognition of the requirement for a collaboration of nations — around the Indian and Pacific oceans — to ensure cooperation between countries on matters of economy and regional security. Since…
Industry Needs to Calibrate and Transform
01 Jul 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic is the defining global health crisis and the greatest challenge we have faced since the World War II. The virus has unleashed socio-economic effects that have devastated lives and livelihoods beyond just health, undoing decades of global progress. The second wave of infections derailed…
COVID-19 Accelerated Clean Energy Adoption
24 Jun 2021 Globally companies are getting into corporate Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) with renewable energy producers. This trend of corporate PPAs was popularized by tech giants such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, AT&T who have altogether around 10 GW of PPA, but it is becoming more and more…
CII Covid-19 Relief and Rehabilitation Initiatives: Strengthening Healthcare Infrastructure
17 Jun 2021 The second wave of Coronavirus put tremendous strain on healthcare infrastructure as the number of patients rose rapidly. Hospital beds, oxygen cylinders, ventilators and other necessary medical equipment and facilities were in short supply and people were often travelling great distances in the hope of getting medical…
Food Safety – an Imperative in the New Normal
07 Jun 2021 The pandemic has accelerated the priority of some areas, food safety being one of them. With the growing awareness on increasing our immunity, the intake of safe, wholesome and hygienic food has become central to our priorities. Essentially COVID is a health pandemic. Food and health are…
Hastening the Vaccination Drive
18 May 2021 The second wave of Covid-19 is now firmly upon us- triggered by new variants of the virus which appear to be spreading faster than anticipated. The magnitude of the spread is far more pervasive, and the surge is much more severe than that experienced last year. Not…
Weld 4.0: Industry 4.0 in Welding
13 May 2021 The consistent implementation of Industry 4.0 has a decisive influence on the factory of the future, which will develop into a ‘smart factory’. For a ‘smart factory’ to work more or less autonomously without human interaction, some criteria must be met for welding applications. The welding know-how…
Leveraging Next Generation Technologies for Aatmanirbhar Bharat
04 May 2021 The Prime Minister’ vision of reviving growth with self-reliance focuses on five major pillars of development: economy, infrastructure, technology driven systems, vibrant demography and sustained demand. While each of these five pillars are crucial for growth, technology driven systems is one aspect which is critical for the…