Scientist  

The new coronavirus variant has the potential to explode in the next few weeks, putting new pressures on American hospitals, some of which are already near the breaking point.

 Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated the scientists and innovators of Bharat Biotech and Serum Institute of India (SII) after the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) approved the ingeniously developed Covaxin and Oxford's Covishield for emergency use on Sunday.

The Indian Council of Medical Research has announced that its Pune-based National Institute of virology has managed to successfully isolate and culture the UK strain of the Coronavirus from the UK arrivals.

Veteran aerospace scientist and Padma Vibhushan Professor Roddam Narasimha passes away at the M S Ramaiah Hospital in Bengaluru. He was 87.

All CRISPR diagnostics to date have required that the viral RNA be converted to DNA and amplified before it can be detected, adding time and complexity, the researchers said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced that India is just weeks away from a Covid-19 vaccine. He made this announcement at an all-party meeting with the floor leaders of all political parties of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha to discuss the Covid-19 situation in the country and vaccine development. 

Days after its top nuclear scientist was assassinated, Iran is reportedly boosting nuclear enrichment and threatening to bar inspectors if sanctions on the country are not lifted by February.

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for the 'definitive punishment' of those behind the killing of its top nuclear scientist. 

Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the man considered to be the driving force behind the Iranian nuclear weapons programme, has been shot dead. Tehran has accused Israel and its espionage agency Mossad for his assassination. 

Health Minister K Sudhakar on Friday stated that healthcare workers including doctors, nurses and paramedics ANMs, ASHAs, Anganwadi workers, medical officers, scientists, and research staff and all those working in the healthcare sector would be the first to get vaccinated for COVID-19 immunity in Karnataka.

Till now, 74,000 tests per million population have been conducted. India has conducted the last 5 crore sample testing in only 45 days, Lokesh Sharma, scientist and media coordinator at ICMR said.

Addressing the Grand Challenges Annual Meeting 2020, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that it took a global pandemic to make the world realise yet again the importance of teamwork.

A young scientist of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) in Mysuru, who was missing since October 6 was found in Vijayawada on Monday. Abhishek Reddy Gulla had left home in his two- wheeler without taking his wallet and even mobile phone and did not return.