Indian Railways to be fully electrified in next 3.5 years: Piyush Goyal

Piyush Goyal today addressed through video-conferencing an event organized by CII: Towards a self-reliant India: renewable energy manufacturing. He said the government  is promoting Make in India for renewable energy and is fully committed to making the industry Atma Nirbhar. Goyal said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has promoted the concept of One Sun, One World, … Read more

COVID-19 Vaccine -ZyCoV-D begins Adaptive Phase I/II clinical trials

The adaptive Phase I/II dose escalation, multi-centric study will assess the safety, tolerability and immunogenicity of the vaccine. The human dosing of the vaccine marks a key milestone since the launching of the accelerated vaccine development programme for COVID-19 in February 2020. Dr.  Renu Swarup, Secretary, DBT and Chairperson, BIRAC said, “The Department of Biotechnology … Read more

South Korea needs more public hospitals to fight infectious diseases: Official

South Korea’s early success to tame the novel coronavirus through aggressive contact tracing and testing has been touted by disease experts worldwide as gold standard of how to effectively control infectious disease. Its early state intervention limited widespread community infections and helped hospitals keep sickbeds available for severely affected patients. But its extremely low rate … Read more