A top Republican lawmaker has welcomed India signing a trade deal with Australia, and urged the Biden administration to enter into a similar arrangement with New Delhi that can advance Washington’s strong economic agenda in the strategically vital Indo-Pacific region. “I’m pleased to see #Australia & #India sign a strong trade deal,” Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Jim Risch […]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it is seeking a total budget of $8.4 billion as part of the President’s fiscal year 2023 budget, about 34% increase from the preceding year. With the new budget request, the regulator aims to further its investments in immediate COVID-19 and non-COVID priorities. The FDA plans to invest in critical public health modernization, […]

EXCLUSIVE: Pretty Little Liars and The Perfectionists alumna Sasha Pieterse has signed with Paradigm for representation in all areas. Best known for her starring role as Alison DiLaurentis on the hit Freeform series Pretty Little Liars and spinoff The Perfectionists, for which she won two Teen Choice awards, Pieterse will next be seen in the upcoming Netflix feature film Ivy […]

Measures of national wealth use several yardsticks. The wealthiest by gross domestic product is the U.S. with a GDP of $19.5 trillion. The GDP per capita of Liechtenstein is the highest in the world at $180,227. But Liechtenstein’s population is only about 50,000 people. Forbes reports that the U.S. has the most billionaires among all nations at 724, followed by […]

EXCLUSIVE: Blade star Wesley Snipes and his Maandi House Studios have partnered with Gifted Rebels and PCB Entertainment on a new graphic novel, titled The Exiled. The comic will follow Detective Niles “Roach” Washington as he pursues a serial killer in the aftermath of a deadly gas attack. As the killer rips the spines from his victims, using tools over 5,000 […]

U.S. stocks ended on a positive note on Monday thanks to some strong buying in the final hour as hopes about a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine helped offset concerns about inflation and imminent monetary tightening by the Federal Reserve. The major averages all ended higher, with the tech-laden Nasdaq outperforming with a sharp uptick. The Dow, which slipped […]

Genentech, affiliated to Swiss drug major Roche Holding AG (RHHBY), announced Monday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has accepted its supplemental Biologics License Application or sBLA and has granted Priority Review for Actemra (tocilizumab) intravenous or IV to treat COVID-19 in hospitalized adults. A decision on FDA approval is expected in the second half of this year. Actemra […]

This is reflected in an improvement in their sentiments as well, explains Mahesh Vyas. Consumer sentiments have been rising steadily in India since June 2021. Between June 2021 and February 2022, the Index of Consumer Sentiments (ICS) scaled up by a substantial 31.9 per cent. In the first three weeks that ended in March, the index scaled another 8.2 per […]

OPINION: My nephew Nigel is a personable, intelligent, good-looking guy of 22 years. He is currently taking advantage of these attributes to work part-time in a supermarket and play drums in a rock band that nobody outside its members actually wants to listen to. All he cares about is that he has enough money to let him drink too much […]