India among top ten nations in intellectual property filings

With government push to schemes like ‘Make in India’, ‘Skill India’ and now ‘Atma-nirbhar Bharat’, IP Filing and grant activity is likely to increase. Industry 4.0 is witnessing new inventions and breakthroughs as it faces challenges in providing the right environment to stimulate innovation, especially in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. IP-intensive industries have been … Read more

Zydus Cadila begins human trials of its potential Covid-19 vaccine ZyCoV-D

The plasmid DNA vaccine ZyCoV-D, designed and developed by Zydus and partially funded by the Department of Biotechnology is the second potential vaccine candidate after Bharat Biotech’s COVAXIN which got the approval for human clinical trial by the Central Drug Standard Control Organisation. Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council has announced that ZyCoV-D has initiated phase-I … Read more

Bihar goes into 15-day lockdown from today in view of spike in Covid-19 cases

The decision has been taken due to an alarming spike in the number of COVID-19 cases in the state during the last three weeks. Except essential services all government offices, public corporations and educational institutions will remain closed. Private and commercial establishments are also closed.   However, ration shops, dairy, vegetable and meat shops  have … Read more

PM Modi to deliver virtual keynote address at UN ECOSOC session tomorrow

The Prime Minister will be speaking at the valedictory session along with the Prime Minister of Norway and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. The annual High-level Segment convenes a diverse group of representatives from the Government, the private sector, civil society and academia. The theme of this year’s High-level Segment is Multilateralism after COVID-19: What … Read more