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Plan to achieve 10 lakh tests every day in country within 1-2 months: Hars
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 30 (ANI): Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Harsh Vardhan on Thursday said there is a plan to achieve the target of 10 lakh tests every day in the country within one or two months.
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Masks should be compulsory for all: CSIR DG after WHO confirms 'emerging e
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 9 (ANI): As the World Health Organisation (WHO) confirms "emerging evidence" of airborne transmission of COVID-19, CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research) Director-General Dr Shekhar Mande on Thursday said that wearing masks has never been more important.
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Drug discovery hackathon can yield COVID-19 solution
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 3 (ANI): The drug discovery hackathon, a joint initiative of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), can yield to some novel solution for COVID-19, said Shekhar Mande, Director-General, CSIR.
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Godrej Security Solutions launches UV Case; expands health security portfo
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India] July 3 (ANI/PRNewswire): The UV Sanitizer box which has both CSIR-Central Scientific Instrument Organisation (CSIR) and CE certification uses UV-C light-based disinfection technology and is proven to sanitize against viruses and bacteria including on everyday obj
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CSIR gets nod for Phase III trial of antiviral drug Umifenovir
Updated : 5 years, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 10 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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