Monday, August 3, 2026

COVID 19 crisis demonstrates how DST is rapidly evolving as architect ...

Delhi, 05 MAY 2020 The Department of Science and Technology (DST), has undergone tremendous change in recent times evolving into an architect of profound science as against incremental science and the coronavirus crisis is an opportunity to escalate the process, Professor Ashutosh Sharma, Secretary, DST said in a live webinar conversation with Ele...

MoU for licensing development of a kit for rapid, accurate diagnosis o...

Delhi, 05 MAY 2020 CSIR’s constituent lab, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB) and TATA Sons signed a MoU for licensing of KNOWHOW for FNCAS9 EDITOR LINKED UNIFORM DETECTION ASSAY (FELUDA) FOR RAPID DIAGNOSIS OF COVID-19. The license shall include transfer of the knowledge for scaling up the KNOWHOW in the form of a kit th...

IIT Bombay Professor receives Young Career Award in Nano Science &...

Delhi, 05 MAY 2020 Professor Saurabh Lodha from Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay, has received the Young Career Award in Nano Science & Technology for the year 2020 instituted by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India. This award recognises his pioneering contributions in the development of logic transistor technologi...

Scientists to culture novel coronavirus in human lung epithelial cell

It willenable in vitro testing of potential drugs and vaccines against COVID-19 Delhi, 05 MAY 2020 Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad has tied up with a Bengaluru-based company, Eyestem Research Private Limited, to take up research activities on COVID-19. Through this research collaboration, an attempt will be made to gro...

DAILY BULLETIN ON COVID-19

Delhi, 05 MAY 2020 Updates on COVID-19 from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare So far, a total of 12,726 people have been cured. This takes our total recovery rate to 27.41%. The total number of confirmed cases is now 46,433. Since yesterday, an increase of 3,900 has been noted in the number of COVID-19 confirmed cases in India. The to...

Why is the tax on alcohol important for the states? Know, what is its ...

On the very first day of Lockdown 3.0, implemented to deal with Corona, long queues were seen at liquor shops in all parts of the country. During this time, the government was criticized for allowing the sale of liquor when the social distancing took off. In India, liquor ban has always been a means of wooing the public on behalf of governments. St...

work starts in Alang, less ships will be breaked due to recession and ...

Gandhinagar, 5 May 2020 The Alang shipyard in Bhavnagar district has been throbbing again after a month start. Work began with a clean-up operation on half the plot at the Alang Ship Recycling Yard, which reopened a month after the lockdown. The rest of the plot will also be buzzing in two days. This year, the turnover was expected to be 4 milli...

The auction of saffron mangoes will be started from May 10 in Talal. 1...

The auction will start on Sunday, May 10, 2020 at the Talala Marketing Yard of Saffron Mango. Gandhinagar, 5 May 2020 The mango crop has been adversely affected by the weather. The lockdown has caused economic losses. A resolution was passed at the general meeting of the marketing yard demanding that the state government announce a relief packa...

Patan’s District Collector Anand Patel’s 2 models impleme...

Patan, 5 May 2020 In order to maintain social distance, the initiative of round marking in front of the shops of essential commodities started by the Gujarat's Patan district administration has been adopted all over the country. Patan was the first to do the round. One more initiative of Patan district, which is a pioneer of round marking syste...

If Gandhinagar Collector is paying the bill of private hospital then w...

Positive cases of asymptomatic as well as non-severe corona will be treated in these private hospitals, all of which will be borne by the state government. Gandhinagar, 5 May 2020 Gandhinagar Civil Hospital has been shifted to nearby large private hospitals like Goenka, Ashka, SMVS as Kovid-1919 Hospital to avoid the possibility of contagion ...

PMO does not know how much money has come in the PM Cares Fund

No information has been given on the website Indian Railways is charging an additional fee of Rs 50 from each to take migrant laborers to their homes. The BJP government of Karnataka has announced to take double the rent from the migrant laborers returning home. The logic behind it is that the vehicles from which these people will be sent will r...

54% people lost their earnings due to lockdown

67% reduced spending, know what people are buying Due to the lockdown, there is a big change in the way spending is done in the country. According to a survey conducted on Indian consumers, 67 percent of the people of the country have cut their expenses. According to consulting firm McKinsey, 54 per cent of the people in the country have seen a ...

To save his daughter from Corona, Partha Saha built unique motorcycle ...

There is a lockdown in most countries of the world today due to the disease named Corona virus, no treatment has been found so far, and social distancing is being continuously advised in all countries to prevent it from spreading. People are following it in India too, but some people are still not following it. But it is said that necessity is the ...

Centre grants permission to Gujarat for conducting ‘International Clin...

Situation – COVID-19 CM had made representation before Union Home Minister for it Ahmedabad: Following the successful representation made by Chief Minister Mr. Vijaybhai Rupani before Union Home Minister Mr. Amitbhai Shah, the Centre has given the permission to conduct Solidarity Trial for the ‘COVID-19’ virus at B J Medical College in Ahmedaba...

New Specified Health Warning on Tobacco Products packs

Delhi, 04 MAY 2020 The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India has notified new sets of specified health warnings for all tobacco product packs by making an amendment in the Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Rules, 2008 vide GSR 248(E) dated 13th April 2020 “The Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products...