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UK India Business Council announces the appointment of Jayant Krishna as G
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] July 1 (ANI/NewsVoir): The UK India Business Council is pleased to announce that Jayant Krishna has accepted the invitation of the Board to become its new Group Chief Executive Officer, effective from August 3rd.
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CSIR gets nod for Phase III trial of antiviral drug Umifenovir
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 19 (ANI): CSIR constituent lab CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI) Lucknow has received permission for carrying out Phase III trial of antiviral drug Umifenovir, Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan said on Friday.
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IHBT, Himachal govt join hands to increase heeng, saffron production in co
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 9 (ANI): The Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology (CSIR-IHBT) and the Department of Agriculture of Himachal Pradesh government, have forged a strategic and implementation partnership, in a bid to increase the production of heeng and saffron in the country.
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Combating COVID-19: NCL-CSIR develops indigenous nasopharyngeal swabs
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 7 (ANI): The National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), a lab under the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) on Saturday said that it has developed an indigenous nasopharyngeal (NP) swabs for collecting samples from the throat cavity of COVID-19 patients.
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'First-ever in modern Indian medicine': CSIR DG hails clinical trial nod t
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 6 (ANI): Clinical trials of the plant-derived drug, ACQH, to treat COVID-19 patients that began on Friday in India has been hailed by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) as "historic in modern medicine".
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`Asymptomatic patients need not be scared of coronavirus if they do not fe
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana), June 5 (ANI): Rakesh Mishra, Director, CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, on Thursday said that asymptomatic patients need not be scared of the coronavirus if they do not feel any symptoms.
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WHO decision to stop HCQ trial was a knee jerk reaction, says CSIR DG
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 4 (ANI): CSIR Director-General Shekhar Mande said on Thursday that the World Health Organisation's (WHO) decision to halt hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) drug trial was taken in haste and the global body should have actually analysed the data before making the decision.
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Zooming in on the origins of fast radio bursts
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 2 (ANI): Astronomers have peered into the home galaxies of fast radio bursts, ruling out supermassive black holes as a cause and bringing us a step closer to understanding the origins of these mysterious signals from outer space.
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Halting hydroxychloroquine trials based on faulty Lancet study is 'knee je
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 30 (ANI): Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Director-General Shekhar Mande, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB) Delhi Director Anurag Agarwal and Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI) Chennai Director Rajeev Karandikar have written to
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Combating COVID-19: AICTE, CSIR embark on drug discovery hackathon
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 28 (ANI): The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) have embarked on a drug discovery hackathon to fight against COVID-19, said Prof K Vijay Raghavan, Principal Scientific Advisor (PSA) to Gove
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Quick, cheap RT-Lamp COVID-19 test will cost up to Rs 200, take less than
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 27 (ANI): The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has signed an MoU with Reliance to develop a new RT-LAMP COVID-19 diagnostic kit, which is cheap and gives a quick result, said Director-General Dr Shekhar C Mande on Wednesday.
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Trust ICMR's judgement on hydroxychloroquine in covid treatment, says CSIR
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 27 (ANI): Director General of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Shekher Mande, on Wednesday said the Indian Council of Medical Research's (ICMR) conclusion of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) having no major side-effects in the treatment of Covid-inf
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