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Humanity’s failure to stop nitrogen pollution could limit the safe operating margin for many other issues facing our planet earth, say scientists. This latest finding was reported by Professor Johan Rockstrom, former director of the…
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History has proven that in the grim face of crisis, helplessness and loss, humanity always emerges stronger as people stand by one another. While the world is having to fight one of the worst crises ever known to humankind which is the…
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Pollution levels in Delhi have witnessed a drop due to the ongoing lockdown imposed in the city to contain the resurgence of Covid-19 infections in the pandemic’s brutal second wave. The lockdown was announced by Chief Minister Arvind…
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The Central Government is in continuous engagement with Pfizer, the international pharmaceutical giant, to have them manufacture their vaccine in India, NITI Aayog’s Dr. V.K. Paul said on Thursday. “We hope to ramp up vaccine production in…
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Indian government’s accountability amid the Covid-19 crisis has been ‘minimal’, reveals a recently published report that has documented the accountability gap in Covid budgets across 120 countries. India fares in the lowest bracket of…
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) opened its 74th World Health Assembly on Monday, May 24, and will hold week-long committees and plenary sessions to discuss the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Member states will also discuss methods to avoid…
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While children and young adults have had mild symptoms of Covid-19, they have undergone collateral damage during the pandemic, said Dr. Randeep Guleria, Director, AIIMS, adding that gap in education and increased mental health issues have…
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India’s leading conservationist and environmental legend Sunderlal Bahuguna breathed his last on Friday, May 21, in a hospital bed in Uttarakhand. The 94-year-old succumbed to Covid-19, after having lived a life, he dedicated to saving…
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Ashoka University announced that a Chair has been endowed by two renowned Astrophysicists, Sunanda Basu and Santimay Basu, in their name for teaching and research in Astrophysics. The University will undertake an extensive search for…
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Indian Council of Medical Research and Bharat Biotech’s COVAXIN will kick-start phase II/III trials on children aged 2 to 18 years, NITI Aayog’s Dr. VK Paul said on Tuesday, adding that the process will commence in another 10 to 12 days.…
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