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'17 differences flagged': Spurious rabies vaccine racket busted after raids in Delhi
September 06, 2026 9:32 am
Spurious Abhayrab vials seized from a Mukherjee Nagar flat were found to differ from genuine samples and failed potency requirements, prompting authorities to alert state drug controllers.
Watch out for ‘counterfeit’ batch of rabies vaccine: Drug regulator to states
September 06, 2026 4:30 am
The drug regulator also confirmed that the batch in question was never exported out of India.
Amid shortage of rabies vaccine in Delhi, 1.27L vials undelivered, government agency told
June 27, 2026 8:27 am
In the letter written on June 22, the Pune-based vaccine manufacturer said it had kept the entire consignment of 1,27,223 vials ready for dispatch for “a long time” under a supply order issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on March 27 this year.
‘Rabid’ dog goes on biting spree in Badaun, injures 36 wedding guests, pedestrians, a cow
April 23, 2026 2:43 pm
The first dose of anti-rabies vaccine administered to the injured, say Health Department officials.
India vs US healthcare: CEO gets rabies shot in 10 minutes, post goes viral
March 30, 2026 4:12 pm
The Bengaluru-based CEO said his friend in San Francisco struggled to find a rabies vaccine within a 16 km radius.
'Survival is almost impossible': Paediatrician opts for pre-exposure rabies vaccine for her child, says 'you don't have to panic'
January 14, 2026 6:07 pm
It’s not mandatory for all children, but it should be strongly considered for those living in areas with many stray animals, children who frequently play outdoors
In stray dogs and Aravalli hill cases, the Supreme Court has gone against its formidable legacy
January 08, 2026 11:17 am
The very institution that once insisted on expert-driven governance solutions now appears willing to substitute scientific analysis with judicial intuition. Interim orders, passed without a full evidentiary foundation or inclusive hearing, risk entrenching irreversible consequences
Knowledge Nugget: Delhi to declare rabies a ‘notifiable disease’— What you must know for the UPSC Exam
January 07, 2026 11:04 am
Delhi is set to declare human rabies a notifiable disease under the Epidemic Diseases Act. What is a notifiable disease and why is human rabies a matter of concern? Here’s all you need to know. Also, go ‘Beyond the Nugget’ know about the Epidemic Diseases Act.
Mass dog shelters are a public health risk. Science over optics must be the way to go
January 06, 2026 12:11 pm
Free-living dogs that are vaccinated, sterilised, and monitored can be observed, managed, and controlled in the open. Disease trends can be tracked. Interventions can be targeted. Confinement, by contrast, hides risk until it erupts
Buffalo dies of 'dog bite', UP villagers who had raita made from its milk dash for anti-rabies vaccines
December 30, 2025 3:04 pm
In the last two days, more than 200 residents of Pipraul village in Uttar Pradesh’s Badaun have taken anti-rabies injections.
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Shriya Pilgaonkar on Swara Bhaskar’s jauhar remark: Easy to judge context of another time
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Swara Bhaskar’s comments on the climactic jauhar sequence of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s 2018 blockbuster period war drama Padmaavat has reentered the discourse after the actor justified her objection to the archaic practice. Swara had claimed that as a woman, she felt “reduced to her vagina” while watching the climax, when Deepika Padukone’s character of Rani Padmini leads women into self-immolation.
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