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New gadget identifies COVID-19 antibodies in five minutes
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Rapid, low-cost, and accurate tests are still required for epidemiological surveillance and healthcare services to monitor and contain the spread of SARS-CoV-2. Brazilian researchers have contributed to this field's efforts by creating an electrochemical immunosensor that identifies antibodi
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Ex-Pak Army chief Bajwa blames politicians for 1971 war debacle
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Former Pakistan Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa blamed the 1971 debacle on the country's politicians.
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India's G-20 presidency: Cometh the moment, cometh the leader
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
India's G-20 presidency comes at a crucial time when the world is in the process of a geopolitical shift amid the Russia-Ukraine war and a troubled global economy inching toward recession. India will be presiding over the G20 for the first time since its inception.
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'I Wanna See a Movie!': New viral chant for China protesters against Covid
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
According to a report by US-based entertainment outlet The Hollywood Reporter, a video went viral across the Chinese social media portal 'WeChat' where purported protesters from Shanghai are seen chanting, "I Wanna See a Movie!"
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WHO South-East Asia region launches regional forum for primary healthcare-
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
The World Health Organisation South-East Asia Region and partners on Tuesday launched the South-East Asia Regional Forum for Primary Health Care-Oriented Health Systems.
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Locally-grown school meals can be beneficial for children, farmers, climat
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
School closures during the COVID-19 pandemic brought a decade's growth in school feeding programmes to a dramatic halt, leaving about 370 million school children without access to their one reliable meal a day, according to UNICEF.
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No legal compulsion to get COVID-19 vaccination, Centre tells SC
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
The Centre on Tuesday clarified to the Supreme Court that there was no legal compulsion to get a vaccination for COVID-19.
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China should respect people's right to peaceful protest: Human Rights Watc
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Over the weekend, thousands of people in Shanghai, China's biggest city and financial center, began publicly protesting the government's strict Covid-19 measures and denouncing the Chinese Communist Party's authoritarian rule.
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Sustainability is a critical differentiator, say Indian firms as per surve
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
51 per cent of firms in India that participated in a recent survey agreed that sustainability is a critical differentiator. Only 19 per cent of organisations in the country say they are fit for the future.
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New analysis finds pandemic didn't dampen deforestation
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Despite the massive upheavals in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, deforestation globally proceeded more or less as expected from the trends established over the last 15 years, according to a recent study from researchers at the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT.
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Gut microbes disturbed by COVID-19 infection, antibiotics: Research
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
In an intensive look at the effects of the virus causing COVID-19 on patients' microbiome - the collection of microorganisms that live in and on the human body - Rutgers scientists found that acute infection disrupts a healthy balance between good and bad microbes in the gut, especially with
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Amid protests, China says fight against Covid 'will be successful'
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian's statement comes a day after protests erupted in Shanghai against China's 'Zero Covid' policy to contain the virus.
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