About 50,000 truckers, most of whom are single-truck owners, could be thrown off their businesses due to the recent fuel price hike. “Already the vehicle supply on the road is higher than the requirement. With the fuel price hike, fleet owners will look to cut down fleet size wherever needed and due to this, small single-truck owners could be at the receiving end,” Ashok Goyal, managing director at BLR Logistiks (I) Ltd told Business Standard. The company has a fleet of 500 vehicles of all types small, medium and large with pan-India presence. Meanwhile, pan-India commercial vehicles on the road are about eight lakhs.
The people behind the COVID 19 vaccine reaching you
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January 19, 2021 15:14 IST
From a ASHA worker to the keeper of the cold chain, here, the unseen people responsible for the COVID-19 vaccine reaching you
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From a ASHA worker to the keeper of the cold chain, here, the unseen people responsible for the COVID-19 vaccine reaching you
9 am; January 16, 2021. Dr TR John has reason to remember this date and time. The Chief of Medical Service, Aster Medcity, Kochi, was readying to oversee the first jab of the COVID-19 vaccine at the hospital and sensed the beginning of the end of a battle. An Indian Army veteran who served in Jammu and Kashmir for eight years before taking premature retirement, he says, “It felt like just before the launch of an assault on the enemy. This has been a battle after all.”
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], January 12 (ANI): The first consignment containing vials of Covishield vaccine were dispatched from the Serum Institute of India here in the early hours of Tuesday, ahead of the January 16 launch of the nationwide vaccination drive.
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], January 12 (ANI): After the first consignment containing vials of coronavirus vaccine "Covishield" were dispatched from the Pune factory, Adar Poonawalla, CEO, Serum Institute of India on Tuesday termed it a historic moment and said the main challenge is to make the vaccine available to everyone in the country.
SpiceJet on Tuesday carried India first consignment of Covid vaccine Covidshield consisting of 34 boxes and weighing 1,088 kilograms from Pune to Delhi, sai