The prime minister also paid tributes to freedom fighter Gopal Krishna Gokhale and celebrated warrior king Maharana Pratap, both of whom were born on this day

The TRIPS waiver would lift certain intellectual property barriers and allow countries to locally manufacture COVID-19 diagnostics, treatments, and vaccines.

On advice of the committee, an effective plan would be drawn up to curb the infection spread, MP Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan as saying in the meeting

A waiver would boost vaccine manufacturing and speed up the response to the pandemic in poorer countries which otherwise might have to wait years, they said in a joint letter to Biden sent to news organisations on Wednesday

While India does not do well in labour-intensive aspects, the country is successful in the services sector and high skill manufacturing, said Paul Krugman

Yousafzai said the news of internet shutdown and arrests of activists \"protesting peacefully\" in India is \"worrying\" and expressed the hope that the government will make sure that people are heard

Legitimate questions about the virus created perfect conditions for conspiracy theories. In the absence of knowledge, guesswork and propaganda flourished

After international pop icon Rihanna and climate change activist Greta Thunberg, US Vice-President Kamala Harris' niece, Meena Harris and former adult star Mia Khalifa too showed their support by dropping tweets reacting to the agitation

Mahindra shared a snippet of information which claimed that a small biotech firm in West Sussex, England is working on putting a COVID-19 vaccine into a simple pill

The generals made their move hours before parliament had been due to sit for the first time since the National League for Democracy's (NLD) landslide win in a Nov. 8 election viewed as a referendum on Suu Kyi's fledgling democratic rule

The military last week signalled it could seize power to settle its claims of irregularities in the polls, which Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party won easily

The slowdown in the manufacturing sector underscores the fragility of the ongoing economic recovery in China, as Beijing grapples with a resurgence of local Covid-19 cases in northern China and navigates rising tensions with Washington and its allies

Nominees also include WHO and its COVAX programme, according to a Reuters survey of Norwegian lawmakers, who have a track record of picking the winner

Economic Survey 2021: India recognised that while GDP growth will recover from the temporary shock caused by the pandemic, human lives that are lost cannot be brought back, stated the survey

Gorman, who earned the honour of being the country's first Youth Poet Laureate in 2017, recited a poem called the 'The Hill We Climb' after Biden and Haaris were sworn in

DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says the company's AlphaFold has been validated as a solution to the 'protein folding problem' and it hopes it will have a big impact on disease understanding and drug discovery

Dorsey seems to hold Yousafzai in high regard as in his 2015 interview with Recode, he called Malala Yousafzai the person who inspired him the most

Feluda, which claims to combine the accuracy of the PCR test with the accessibility of the antigen kits, uses the gene-editing technique CRISPR-Cas9 that had recently earned inventors Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna the Nobel Prize

The PMO said that the FAO's journey in making the vulnerable classes and masses stronger, economically and nutritionally, has been unparalleled

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