The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today the approval of Dengvaxia, the first vaccine approved for the prevention of dengue disease caused by all dengue virus serotypes (1, 2, 3 and 4) in people ages 9 through 16 who …
The coastal city is the first major metropolitan area in India to deal with such an extreme water shortage. The water crisis in Chennai needs holistic and widely resonant solutions. Chennai’s aspirations to grow into a global economic hub appear …
Bitcoin mining has increased rapidly in recent years, raising the question of whether it is imposing an additional burden on the climate. The use of Bitcoin — a popular virtual currency — emits over 22 megatonnes of carbon dioxide annually, …
GST Council has missed the chance to send positive signals to boost consumer demand The Goods and Services Tax Council’s first meeting under the new government did not deliver any big surprises. Apart from some minor changes to the existing structure and …
The United States needs to dial down on its ‘maximum pressure’ tactics with Iran Image credits: https://inhomelandsecurity.com/us-iran-war-happen-future/ U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to pull back from air strikes on Iran, after the latter shot down an American drone near the Strait …
The immediate medical implication of the finding will be in the treatment of certain cancer patients Researchers at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bengaluru, have unraveled the molecular mechanism by which autophagy pathway (a pathway recycles …
Costs one-twentieth of imported carbon quantum dots (CQDs). Scientists from Assam has developed a chemical process that turns ‘dirty’ coal into a biomedical ‘dot. Which helps to detect cancer cells. The team has applied for a patent for their chemical …
In India, Acute Encephalitis Syndrome outbreaks in the north and eastern India have been linked to children eating unripe litchi fruit on empty stomachs. Unripe fruit contains the toxins hypoglycin A and methylenecyclopropylglycine (MCPG), which cause vomiting if ingested in …
Key points HIV infection can be transmitted from an infected mother to her fetus during pregnancy, during delivery, or by breastfeeding. Maternal transmission to the fetus occurs most commonly in the perinatal period. (50-65%) It is very unlikely that mother-to-child …
(I) Nationality A candidate must be either: (a) a Citizen of India, or (b) a subject of Nepal, or (c) a subject of Bhutan, or (d) a Tibetan refugee who came over to India before the 1st January 1962 with …