The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Arindam Bagchi revealed to the reporters in a briefing on Thursday that any updates pertaining to the Emergency Use Listing (EUL) authorization of Bharat Biotech’s Covid-19 vaccine by the World Health Organisation (WHO) are being closely monitored by the Centre. ANI cited Bagchi saying, “We are closely following…
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will be commencing on a two-day bilateral tour to Greece scheduled from Friday to have a dialogue with his Greek counterpart, as per the statement released by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). After the visit to Greece, Jaishankar will proceed towards Italy to participate in the G20 Ministerial meeting,…
Amid the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) meet held in Dushanbe on Wednesday, the National Security Advisors (NSAs) of the representative countries have together vowed to have cooperation in the mutual fight against international terrorism, extremism, and separatism. The NSAs had a dialogue over cooperation against rebellious radicalism along with the potential risk of increased transnational…
Messaging application Signal having end-to-end encryption is not adhering to the recent social media and intermediary guidelines, revealed the officials aware about the issue. The company is also supposedly under the Information Technology Act and the facility of safe harbour in it is not likely to be applicable due to the non-compliance, added the officials….
Bengaluru Urban, covered in the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), is the exclusive district in the state of Karnataka which has administered 50 or more doses for every 100 people, as per the data given by Health and Medical Education Officer Dr. K Sudhakar. Sudhakar tweeted on Wednesday that the top five districts include Bengaluru…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will have an interaction via the mode of video conferencing with the participants of Toycathon-2021, with the objective to make India a centre for ideation and production of toys, as scheduled on June 24 at 11 am. He posted about it on Twitter, saying, “At 11 AM tomorrow, 24th June, will…
The countries representing BRICS, which includes Brazil, Russia, China, India, China and South Africa have together agreed on an innovation cooperation at the 11th BRICS S&T Steering Committee meeting. The proposal presented by India would be considered at the BRICS Science, Technology and Innovation Entrepreneurship (STIEP) working group for detailing the action plan, according to…
India has vaccinated more than 294 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine as of Tuesday, June 22. Alongside, Bharat Biotech presented the data of phase III clinical trials of Covaxin to the expert panel. The company also mentioned that it will generate 25 million shots of vaccine a month before August. Alongside, as of Tuesday,…
Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa declared on Tuesday that no decision will be taken about reopening of schools as the vaccines for the ones above 18 years are still underway through clinical trials. A 92-page interim report from the 13 member high-level committee led by cardiac surgeon Devi Prasad Shetty was issued to Yediyurappa, which…
The Director of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Dr. Randeep Guleria revealed that the Covid-19 vaccine, Covaxin of Bharat Biotech International Limited, will supposedly be approved for children till September. Dr. Guleria told India Today, “After the completion of the second and third phase of trials of Covaxin for children, the trial data…
