World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday the only approved vaccine against malaria should be widely given to African children. The WHO recommendation is for RTS,S – or Mosquirix – a vaccine developed by British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline . Since 2019, 2.3 million doses of Mosquirix have been administered to infants in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi […]
The Australian prime minister recently announced that foreign tourists won’t be welcomed back to Australia until at least next year. He outlined plans for lifting some of the toughest and longest Covid-19 travel restrictions imposed by any democracy on Tuesday. The news comes just days after Morrison announced plans to allow vaccinated citizens and permanent […]
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday announced an 18-month ban on Australians travelling abroad will be lifted from next month. Reopening the international border for citizens and permanent residents will be linked to the establishment of home quarantine in Australia’s eight states and territories. The first phase of the plan will focus on citizens […]
Canada will allow direct flights from India from Monday, lifting the ban on them after a gap of more than five months. Canada banned all direct flights to and from India when the second Covid wave hit India in April. The date of reopening has been postponed many times since April.
India has been elected as the external auditor to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for a period of six years from 2022 to 2027 after beating Germany and the United Kingdom among other counties. India’s comptroller and auditor general GC Murmu was selected as the external auditor of IAEA and the ministry of external […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will bring back 157 stolen Indian antiquities being returned by the US government. PM conveyed his deep appreciation for the repatriation of antiquities to India by the US. PM Modi is currently on the visit to United States to address the 76th session of United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Joe Biden at the White House on Friday in his first bilateral meeting with the US President. Both leaders have discussed a wide range of priority issues, including combating COVID-19, climate change, economic cooperation as well as Afghanistan. President Biden and PM Modi were joined by their senior officials, including […]
US president Joe Biden will host Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a bilateral meet on September 24. This will be the first in-person bilateral meet between both the leaders after Biden was elected as the President of the United States. PM Modi and Biden will also participate in a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide […]
India has improved its ranking in the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2021 report and currently stands at 46th position, as opposed to last year’s 48th spot. World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)’s published latest innovation index report for 2020 on Monday. The report ranked Switzerland, Sweden, the United States, Britain and South Korea as the most […]
The production of Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V has begun in India, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) said on Monday (May 24). The vaccine is being manufactured by Indian biotech firm Panacea Biotec Limited. The first batch of the vaccine will be shipped to Gamaleya, the Moscow institute which developed the vaccine, for quality […]