Wipro joins WEF initiative to advance racial justice, social equality ANI | Updated: Mar 03, 2021 10:49 IST
The initiative is aimed towards driving action and accountability for companies to confront racism at a systemic level, set new global standards for racial justice in business and accomplish necessary policy changes for the inclusion and advancement of professionals with under-represented racial and ethnic identities. As a global brand that influences millions of lives across the world, it is our responsibility to accelerate every attempt towards equity and justice, said Thierry Delaporte, Wipro s Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director. We will do everything we can to help us all rise up and together strive for racial justice. Wipro seeks to access as many different resources as possible to learn from them and introduce inclusive practices into our hiring, retention and employee growth approach, he said in a statement on Wed
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Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan holds a dose of Bharat Biotech’s COVID-19 vaccine COVAXIN, during a vaccination campaign at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi on January 16, 2021. | Photo Credit:
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COVAXIN is one of the two vaccines approved for use in the country thus far and is being used as part of the immunisation programme rolled out on January 16. The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) had given the emergency use authorisation for the vaccine in clinical trial mode, raising questions about its effectiveness.