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Tuesday, January 27, 2026
TopicChikungunya

Topic: chikungunya

World’s 1st vaccine against chikungunya primed for launch in India, says French drugmaker Valneva

VLA1553, commercially known as Ixchiq, has received USFDA clearance and will be launched in India — which has seen high number of chikungunya cases — after ‘regulatory talks with DCGI’.

Hope for chikungunya vaccine: French drugmaker reports 99% immune response in Phase 3 trial

Trial of live-attenuated vaccine VLA1553 was conducted in US, with high seroprotection rates observed in participants up to 180 days after vaccination. Study published in 'The Lancet'.

Chikungunya strain from India, Bangladesh likely caused 2018-19 Thailand outbreak, study says

Researchers from Chulalongkorn University in Thailand find that chikungunya strain identified in Thailand has mutations that originated in India and Bangladesh

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Governors walking out, agencies blocked—how to fix fraying Centre-state ties

From Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Karnataka to West Bengal, states are clashing with the Centre. Cooperative federalism needs revival.

RBI opens door to urban co-op bank licences after 2 decades. But high capital bar may shut most out

Proposal to restart licensing is welcome, but Rs 300-crore minimum capital requirement could mean only handful of credit societies qualify, say sector executives

From action near Myanmar to hand-to-hand combat in Kishtwar, meet this year’s gallantry award winners

Overall, President Droupadi Murmu has approved Gallantry awards to 70 armed forces personnel, including six posthumous, on the eve of 77th Republic Day.

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.