COVID-19

New drugs could soon be in the offing for Zika virus (ZIKV) infection with a team of scientists at the Institute of Medical Sciences (IMS) in Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, getting new insights into how the virus multiplies…
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The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi addressed the nation. The Prime Minister announced that from 3rd January 2022, Monday, vaccination will start for the children in the age group of 15-18 years. The move is likely to aid in education…
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The Centre has advised States and UTs to not let their guard down and maintain their preparedness for fighting COVID19 (and its variants) in view of the new variant Omicron (designated as a Variant of Concern by WHO on 26th November 2021).…
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NITI Aayog today released the report ‘Designing the Future of Dispute Resolution: The ODR Policy Plan for India’, to scale dispute avoidance, containment and resolution online. The roll out of the stated recommendations in the report can…
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Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar today chaired the brainstorming session on Strategies for Ending TB by 2025. Reiterating Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s commitment to eliminate TB in…
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Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-Madras), the Centre for Networked Intelligence at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), and Semantic Web India, a private technology firm based in Bengaluru,…
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Raising the collective voice of unorganised sector workers and deliberating on the strategy to build a national movement for unorganised workers, the annual National Conference of the Working People’s Charter (WPC), was held at the Montfort…
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Humanity is facing a test in the form of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nations across the world are scrambling to contain the spread and minimize the impact of the pandemic. COVID-19 has exposed many fault lines that exist in our society. The…
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The Department of Biotechnology’s Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP) has set up a national facility to specifically address the commercialization gaps faced by the developers of microfluidics technologies and medical…
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On 1 October 2020, four countries—Eswatini, India, Kenya and South Africa—approached the World Trade Organization’s TRIPS Council to seek a waiver from certain obligations on the protection and enforcement of patents, trade secrets,…
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