On Wednesday, New York City decided to close its public schools beginning Thursday after the city achieved a positivity rate (seven-day average) of 3%. This is one of the lowest bars in the US, but given New York’s debilitating first brush with the pandemic in March and April, perhaps it …
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Rarely have the worlds of science, public health, economics, and the global balance of power intersected as they did in the days of Covid-19. And rarely has it relied so heavily on a single variable: developing a vaccine, or a set of vaccines, to provide immunity to all people around …
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Two years after the wedding, Tina Dabi, who led the examination of the Union Public Service Commission (batch of 2015), and her husband IAS Athar Khan filed for divorce by mutual consent in a family court in Jaipur. Their relationship, which apparently began at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy …
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Comment: Currently, recruitment competitions for central positions are conducted in only two languages: English and Hindi. Telangana Prime Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, asking the Union government to conduct competitive exams in regional languages for the benefit of students of diverse backgrounds. Currently, competitions for …
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Written by Abhishek De, edited by Explained Desk | New Delhi | Updated: November 20, 2020 4:07:53 pm An actor dressed as a coronavirus reacts after injecting a fantasy vaccine during a street performance in Plaza San Martín (AP) Encouraging results in Covid-19 vaccine trials by pioneers in November have …
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University of Mumbai Issues Guidelines for Winter Semester Exams | Photo Credit: Representative Image The University of Mumbai has issued guidelines for taking online winter semester exams for all traditional and professional courses. The exams of the first, third and fifth semester would be done online. Vinod Patil, director of …
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BEIJING: Chinese officials have claimed that traces of COVID-19 were found in more cold chain imports from different countries, including India, amid mounting criticism from various nations that the tests and restrictions are not based on science and disrupt trade. Cold chain imports from India, Russia and Argentina test positive …
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MUMBAI: end-of-semester theoretical exams for professional courses at universities affiliated with Mumbai University You will have a combination of descriptive and multiple-choice questions, while those in traditional arts, science, and business courses will be based solely on MCQ. For traditional and management courses, the university has set a deadline of …
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The winter semester exams for all traditional and professional courses will be conducted online, the University of Mumbai announced on Wednesday evening. Vinod Patil, director of the examination and evaluation board, issued a circular detailing the guidelines for taking the first, third and fifth semester exams. The circular provides a …
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In encouraging news, BioNTech CEO Ugur Sahin has said BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine deliveries could arrive as early as Christmas this year, if “all goes well.” He told Reuters TV: “If all goes well, you could imagine that we get approval (from the US FDA) in the second half of December and …
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