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1. Targeted Vaccination Drive Better Strategy: ICMR Study  PTI “Smart vaccination” approaches that target the vulnerable population — in the context of the Indian Covid-19 epidemic — make for a smarter public health choice than mass vaccination, a mathematical modeling-based analysis by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) published in the British Medical Journal …

Richa Dubey, the wife of Kanpur gangster Vikas Dubey who was killed in a police encounter last year has written to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath seeking permission for euthanasia along with her family. In her letter, Richa alleged that she and her family were being harassed continuously by the authorities and now they do not wish to live …

Reuters The COVID-19 Weekly Epidemiological Update published by WHO said that as of June 29, 2021, “96 countries have reported cases of the Delta variant, though this is likely an underestimate as sequencing capacities needed to identify variants are limited. A number of these countries are attributing surges in infections and hospitalizations to this variant.” Read more Jump To 5 …

India has reported 48,415 new COVID-19 cases and 988 deaths in the past 24 hours, as the number of new infections is showing a slow increase in many states. Jump To Zydus Cadila Applies For Emergency Use Approval For Covid-19 Vaccine Govt Panel Recommends Against SII Conducting Trial Of Covovax On Children Aged 2-17 Himachal Pradesh Resumes Interstate Operation Of …

Global plastics production declined in 2020 as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, only the third time since World War II that output has fallen. Plastic output has only fallen twice previously, as a result of the oil crisis in 1973 and during the financial crisis in 2008. Reuters Worldwide output slipped to 367 million tonnes last year from 368 …

The rise in prices in various commodities is affecting the common man and it does not seem to stop. While the nation battles a pandemic, this adds to the pressure. It is not getting any better. Domestic LPG cylinders have gone up in cost by Rs 25, as per India TV News.  Oil marketing companies made such a move.  Now …

India successfully test-fired a new missile in the Agni series known as Agni-P off the coast of Odisha at 10:55 am, DRDO officials said as per TOI.  According to DRDO, Agni-Prime is a new generation advanced variant of the Agni class of missiles. “Being a canister-launched missile, Agni-P will give the armed forces the requisite operational flexibility to swiftly transport …

On October 31, 1984, the atmosphere in India changed overnight. Indira Gandhi, our Prime Minister was assassinated by her own security guards. In 24 hours, the anti-Sikh sentiment was high and riots broke out. Sikhs were targeted specifically and a bloodbath followed. The city of Bokaro in Jharkhand was no exception to this horror. It witnessed a traumatic scenes of loss …

In a massive defence push, India has moved at least 50,000 additional troops to its border with China amidst an offensive military posture against the world’s second-biggest economy. India has sought to ease tensions with Islamabad and concentrate primarily on countering Beijing since the deadliest India-China fighting in decades last year. India has moved  troops and fighter jet squadrons to …

There is more relief coming for cancer patients. After creating a novel drug carrier that reduces side-effects of anti-cancer drugs, MS University researchers now have another patent to make another carrier that will reduce the local toxicity of anti-cancer medicines, as per TNN.  On the lines of the earlier drug carrier for which they had received the first patent, this …