Serum Institute of India (SII) based in Pune sleepless The first pneumococcal vaccine developed in India on Monday. IBS, the world’s largest vaccine maker by dose, is also the maker of Covishield, the Indian version of the AstraZeneca-Oxford coronavirus vaccine. The pneumococcal IBS vaccine, Pneumosil, was developed through a collaboration …
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Bharuch BJP MP Lok Sabha and tribal leader Mansukh Vasava resigned from the party on Tuesday. Vasava’s resignation comes days after he wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking withdrawal of MoEFCC notice declaring 121 villages in the Narmada district as an ‘eco-sensitive zone’. In a letter to Gujarat BJP …
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The Assam government on Monday introduced a bill in the Assembly to convert all state madrassas into regular schools amid objections from a united Opposition. Introducing the bill at the three-day session of the Assembly, which began on Monday, Chief State Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that he proposes to …
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When 22-year-old Shreyas Sudhaman, ICSE’s best in 2014, went abroad for his undergraduate education in chemical engineering at the Cockrell School of Engineering, University of Texas, Austin, he realized that the school did not. had equipped with some key skills. “I was much more adapted to textbook problems than innovative …
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The CPM-led Democratic Left Front (LDF) succeeded in wresting control of five of Kerala’s six municipal corporations, underscoring its dominance in the main cities of the state. the Results of December 16 to the elections to local rural and urban bodies statewide it had shown that the LDF obtained a …
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Arya Rajendran, a 21-year-old CPI (M) leader, was sworn in on Monday as the youngest mayor of Thiruvananthapuram Corporation, Kerala’s largest urban body. Tax collector Navjot Khosa took the oath of office to Rajendran inside a packed council room that made history after the latter was elected mayor with 54 …
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One day after the Directorate of Execution (ED) issued a summons to his wife Varsha Raut In connection with the PMC Bank money laundering case, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut said on Monday that attacking women in a household was an “act of cowardice”. “Addressing the women of a household …
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Some groups of farmers in Punjab continued interrupting the power supply to Reliance Jio mobile towers on Sunday, despite the Chief Minister Amarinder Singh’s appeals against them. Sources said power to more than 150 mobile towers was cut in the past 24 hours. To date, power supplies have been cut …
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Vartika Bhandari, 40, Allahabad ISC 1998 Board Leader, is a senior software engineer at Google in San Francisco. Chaitra Chandrasekhar, 38, a 1998 ICSE topper from a Bangalore school, is a partner at Oliver Wyman consulting firm in New York. Jerene Mathews, 31, 2006 Topper CBSE Class 12 from Kendriya …
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The Allahabad High Court has observed that a 21-year-old woman, married to a Muslim, “has the option to live her life on her own terms.” Now she has reunited with her husband. In an order approved on December 18, a court of judges Pankaj Naqvi and Vivek Agarwal observed that …
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