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Highly-contagious GH strain of coronavirus spreading in South Korea
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], July 6 (Sputnik/ANI): All recent coronavirus clusters in South Korea are seeded mostly by the highly-infectious GH strain of the virus, which is believed to spread six times faster than other types of COVID-19, the Health Ministry's Centres for Disease Control and Preven
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North Korean diplomat says Pyongyang not interested in US talks
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Pyongyang [North Korea], July 4 (Sputnik/ANI): A high-ranking North Korean diplomat said Pyongyang has no interest in restarting negotiations with the United States and is shocked at the suggestion that talks can be held under present strain in bilateral relations.
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India's service sector remains mired in deep downturn: IHS Markit
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 3 (ANI): The Indian service sector remained under intense strain during June, according to the latest PMI survey released on Friday, as activity fell at another substantial month-on-month rate amid the ongoing economic disruption caused by the coronavirus disease 2019
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Let's not be aggressive and disrespectful: Manisha Koirala urges India, Ne
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 22 (ANI): Amidst a strain in the ties between India and Nepal, actor Manisha Koirala, a Nepali national, on Monday urged people of both the countries to be not "aggressive and disrespectful" towards each other.
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Impasse with Nepal has strained ties, should be addressed urgently: Congre
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 11 (ANI): Congress leader Anand Sharma on Wednesday said that recent developments in India-Nepal relations and "dispute over the Kalapani-Lipulekh area" following the publication of a new map by Nepal depicting the area as Nepalese territory is a matter of national
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Researchers believe regional disparities make Covid-19 innately lethal in
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], May 29 (ANI): A team of Japanese researchers have found that regional disparities play a major role in mutating the strains of coronavirus and making it innately contagious as well as lethal in one part of the world than in another, according to a study cited by The Washingto
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Study reveals individualised mosaics of microbial strains transfer from ma
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Birmingham [UK], May 10 (ANI): Microbial communities in the intestine -- also known as the gut microbiome -- are vital for human digestion, metabolism and resistance to colonisation by pathogens. The gut microbiome composition in infants and toddlers changes extensively in the first three ye
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ICMR partners with BBIL for developing indigenous COVID-19 vaccine
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi, May 9 [India], May 9 (ANI): The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Saturday announced that it has partnered with the Bharat Biotech International Limited (BBIL) to develop a fully indigenous vaccine for COVID-19 using the virus strain isolated at the National Institute o
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RBI extends regulatory benefits under SLF-MF Scheme
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 30 (ANI): The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Thursday decided that regulatory benefits announced under the special liquidity facility for mutual funds (SLF-MF) scheme will be extended to all banks, irrespective of whether they avail funding from the cen
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RBI announces Rs 50,000 crore special liquidity facility for mutual funds
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 27 (ANI): The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Monday decided to open a special liquidity facility for mutual funds of Rs 50,000 crore in a bid to arrest redemptions in the asset management industry after last week's collapse of six debt schemes of Franklin
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Focus on health emergencies like malaria, polio along with COVID-19: WHO c
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], April 27 (ANI): Despite the severe strain on public health systems due to COVID-19 pandemic, countries around the world must also focus on other health emergencies like malaria or polio, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Sunday (local time).
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Study reveals deadliest malaria strain protects itself from immune system
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 14 (ANI): In a novel study, researchers have found that the parasite causing the most severe form of human malaria uses proteins to make red blood cells sticky, making it harder for the immune system to destroy it and leading to potentially fatal blood clots. The
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