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Friday, August 29, 2025
TopicCovid test kits

Topic: Covid test kits

First at-home Covid test gets approval — what this means, its impact & if it’s good news

USFDA Tuesday issued an emergency use authorisation to Lucira Health Inc.’s rapid-result Covid test, the first that can be used at home. Here's all you'd like to know about it.

Rwandan researchers’ devise algorithm that can detect a Covid sample from pool of 99 swabs

Researchers from the University of Rwanda used the geometry of the hypercube to increase the accuracy of pooled Covid testing, making the test 20 times cheaper for individuals.

Covid kit ‘scam’ hits Yogi govt, opposition says SIT an eyewash as it has CM’s close officers

The ‘scam’ came to light after BJP MLA from Sultanpur wrote to the CM. Soon reports of similar scam in other districts started pouring in. Govt says guilty won’t be spared.

France sends ventilators, test kits to help India in fight against Covid

The medical equipment was handed over to the Indian Red Cross Society by French Ambassador at the Palam Air Force Station.

On Camera

India needs a clear Balochistan strategy. ‘Enemy of my enemy’ approach won’t work

Confronting only secular insurgents in Pakistan, while overlooking jihadist groups operating from Iran, will do little to change the broader strategic equilibrium. History underlines this point.

Easy loans, uneasy ‘debt traps’. Women harassed by private lenders ask ‘who will restore lost dignity?’

A public meeting, where the women voiced their protest, took place this month in Delhi, grounded on the findings of an AIDWA survey, covering 9,000 women borrowers.

Post-Sindoor, joint doctrine tasks Special Forces with fighting info warfare & countering propaganda

Joint Doctrine for Special Forces Operations, released Wednesday, also outlines plans for the future expansion of AFSOD and the creation of Joint Service Training Institutes.

That Oval Office picture for ages deserves closer Indian reading, with a geopolitical lens

Putin sees this as a victory. Europeans have decided to deal with Trump on his terms for the sake of the larger Western alliance. We look at the lessons for us in India.