Covishield vaccine: Three trucks carrying the Covishield vaccine left the Serum Institute of India building at 4:55 am IST, followed by a police escort vehicle to reach the Pune International Airport. The unloading started at the cargo terminal at around 5:30 am and they will be dispatched to 12 cities in India, The Hindustan Times reported.  The ...

G-20 summit: Leaders from the G-20 summit came together virtually to discuss the key issues at hand over the weekend. The 15th annual G2O summit was organised by Saudi Arabia and inaugurated by Saudi king Salman with his speech, wherein he made an appeal that the G20 economies “must work to create the conditions for ...

On Monday, The Union Ministry of education announced a detailed SOP for resuming schools and universities in the nation. In unlock 5.0, the Centre has permitted universities and schools to reopen in a phased way, beginning from October 15. The states have the power to choose whether they need to reopen schools from the following ...

As India lost thousands to the pandemic outbreak and many to hunger .caused by loss of job and loss of economic growth coupled, Congress MP Shahi Tharoor hit out at Narendra Modi led government in the Centre for its “utter mismanagement” of the coronavirus pandemic outbreak. Referring to the country’s deteriorating growth and escalating virus ...

Feluda is an indigenous kit that utilizes CRISPR gene-editing technology to distinguish and find the genetic material of Sars-CoV2, which causes Coronavirus. It has been endorsed by the legislature of India.  Feluda (test kit) has been created by senior scientists Dr. Souvik Maiti and Dr. Debojyoti Chakraborty at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Institute ...

India is looking for successfully performing covid-19 vaccine candidate all across the world to strike a deal with the best ones. So far, India’s list of possible acquisitions include the under-trail candidates being developed by UK’s Oxford-AstraZeneca and United States’s Moderna-NIAID. Besides, the government is also closely observing the progress of vaccine candidates being developed ...

On Wednesday, PM Narendra Modi in a video conference urged the Chief Ministers of seven covid affected states’ to do a critical evaluation of the 1-2-day lockdowns that few other states have been implementing and the disadvantageous of this on economic activity. He stressed that the states should strengthen their contact tracing strategies to contain ...

On Tuesday, Union Health Ministry secretary Rajesh Bhushan, while briefing media over the country Covid-19 situation and development of its vaccine said no particular drug that  treats corona-virus has been made so far.  As per the government sources three vaccines are in trail phase but would take time to be ready for the corona victims. ...

The trials of the world’s first coronavirus vaccine on volunteers at Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University have been effectively completed. Elena Smolyarchuk, the chief researcher at the university, told Tass news on Sunday that the research and the final results of the vaccine came out effective. In the month of March, the World Health Organization (WHO) ...

On Saturday, Congress described the primary year of the Modi government’s second term as a “year of dissatisfaction, terribly bad administration”. Congress leaders also questioned the Central government’s handling of the Covid-19 crisis, saying that the administration didn’t strategize accurately to combat the pandemic, especially on how to address the issues related to migrant workers ...