The National Council for Science & Technology Communication (NCSTC), Department of Science & Technology (DST) in association with Dr. Anamika Ray Memorial Trust, has brought out the Hindi version of the Popular Multimedia Guide for Mass Awareness carrying important information on A-to-Z of COVID-19 pandemic as Covid Katha. The English version has already been released early this month. In order …
The Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, has established stable cultures of coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) from patients’ samples. Virologists at CCMB have isolated infectious viruses from several isolates. The ability to culture the virus in lab enables CCMB to work towards vaccine development and testing of potential drugs to fight COVID-19. Novel coronavirus enters human cell by binding with …
IIT Alumni Council will set up one of the world’s largest MegaLabs in Mumbai with a capacity of 10 million tests per month and will start identifying partners for the same through a global competition. While scientists are still at work to develop a vaccine, testing and biotherapeutics capacity have emerged as the biggest challenges. Announcing this initiative, Ravi Sharma, …
IDP Education, a provider of international educational services has announced the launch of its virtual offices across India. Students aspiring to pursue higher education abroad can now connect with IDP’s international education specialists from the comfort and safety of their homes. These virtual offices have been launched to provide the best-in-class services, which would be at par with IDP’s physical offices, and will …
Tata Trusts and the Tata group have tied up with two top medical institutions, Christian Medical College (CMC) Vellore and Care Institute of Health Sciences (CIHS) Hyderabad, to assist health care professionals augment skills in critical care in the management of Covid-19. The curated 22-hour on-line training programmes are meant for specific staff chosen by identified hospitals and are provided …
The Law School Admission Council (LSAC) has announced that the LSAT—India test date would be moved by one month to help accommodate students preparing to sit for their remaining CBSE board exams scheduled between 01 to 15 July. The online LSAT—India will now be administered starting 19 July, using the AI-enabled remote proctored online test delivery system to allow candidates to …
