The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Thursday spoke about the interim results of the current clinical trials indicate that the Covid-19 vaccines made in India are effective against Covid-19 variants with mutated virus strains discovered in United Kingdom, Brazil and South Africa. While addressing the webinar on an international level, “Kerala Health:Making the…
Thermo Fisher Scientific, which is an international, firm, is planning to manufacture a novel testing kit for Covid-19 in Bengaluru. The testing kit, to be called CoviPath, will be comprising of the assays and controls for RT-PCR testing. CoviPath has already been given the approval as per MDR 2017 rules for in-vitro diagnostic use by…
India and Ethiopia on Friday formalized a couple of agreements which were bout visa facilitation and leather technology. The agreements were formalized between External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Ethiopia Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Demeke Mekonnen Hassen, who is on a four-day visit to India from February 16. S Jaishankar wrote on Twitter…
Bengaluru has taken the third position among the worst Indian cities affected by air pollution in 2020 with as many as 12,000 deaths, as per the Southeast Asia analysis of the Greenpeace. Delhi has taken the top position with a death count of 54,000, after which Mumbai takes the lead with 25,000 deaths. The numbers…
Over 10 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been given to the healthcare and frontline workers of the country from the initiation of the largest vaccination drive in the world on January 16, as per the data released on the dashboard of the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. As per the data, 10,188,007…
The Chamoli Police on Thursday revealed the details about the Uttarakhand glacial outburst stating that as of now as many as 61 bodies and 28 body parts have been recovered. The police took to Twitter to reveal the current situation. In a tweet, they mentioned that from those, 34 bodies and 1 body part have…
External Affairs Minister, S Jaishankar is scheduled to visit Maldives and Mauritius in the upcoming week for reviewing the bilateral ties and development cooperation, particularly about the initiatives for assisting the Indian Ocean states to overcome the impact of Covid-19. As the travelling restrictions were relaxing a little, Jaishankar had visited Sri Lanka in the…
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be moderating the sixth meeting of the Governing Council meeting of NITI Aayog scheduled for February 20 with the mode of virtual conferencing. According to the press release issued by the Prime Minister’s Office on Thursday, “The agenda of the meeting includes deliberations on agriculture, infrastructure, manufacturing, human resource…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be addressing a webinar over a roadmap structure in the direction of effective implementation of the provisions of Union Budget 2021-22 for the Infrastructure development. Modi will be speaking at the webinar which will be attended by over 200 participants from various fields at 4pm on Tuesday. The webinar will…
The AYUSH Ministry and the World Health Organization’s South East Asia’s Regional Office has formalized a Letter of Exchange for deploying an AYUSH expert at the regional traditional medicine programme of the WHO in New Delhi, as per a statement released here on Monday. AYUSH Secretary Vaidya Rajesh Kotecha along with Regional Director of WHO…
