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Off The Cuff with Shekhar C. Mande

In conversation with ThePrint’s Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta at Off The Cuff, Shekhar Mande, Director, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, discussed his study that...

19 SARS-CoV-2 mutations in India can evade antibodies, 1 causes reinfection — CSIR study

Study suggests that N501Y, the ‘highly infectious’ Covid mutation found in UK, is present in Australia, South Africa, USA, Denmark & Brazil, and advises screening travellers from here.

Covid vaccines will be equally effective despite mutation of coronavirus, says CSIR chief

CSIR DG Shekhar Mande said the transmissibility of the new strain of coronavirus, N501Y, is a 'bit higher' but this doesn't mean it is more lethal and more people are going to die.

CSIR plans clinical trials of antiviral Molnupiravir that is said to block Covid transmission

A recent study at Georgia State University in US found that Molnupiravir can completely suppress SARS-CoV-2 transmission in ferrets within 24 hours.

India starts cultivating hing, a staple ingredient that costs $130 mn each year to import

Hing is currently imported from Afghanistan and Iran but scientists from CSIR-IHBT, Palampur, have begun growing it in Himachal’s Lahaul and Spiti district.

Study documents 2 cases of reinfections in India, but experts say data doesn’t offer insight

A study, which is yet to be peer reviewed, noted that 2 health care workers working in a Covid ward were infected by SARS-CoV-2 virus twice over a span of three months. 

Delhi scientists develop ‘non-fussy’ Covid test, say it’s cheaper & faster than RT-PCR

Researchers from Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology have detailed their findings in a paper published 31 August in the peer-reviewed Journal of Proteins and Proteomics.

Today’s PPE kits could be tomorrow’s roads, fuel — CSIR’s plan to tackle Covid plastic surge

With Covid pandemic requiring single-use PPE kits and other plastics, there has been a surge in plastic waste. CSIR is looking at ways to reduce this waste and establish safety protocol.

Hyderabad’s CCMB develops Covid test that can ‘handle up to 50,000 times more samples’

In an interview, CCMB chief Rakesh Mishra talks about the Hyderabad institute’s new test kit as well as their work on a vaccine that could be ready within a year.

Tata Sons to help make ‘Feluda’, CSIR’s Satyajit Ray-inspired Covid paper test kit

Tata Sons and CSIR have signed an MoU for the ‘licencing of knowhow’, and want to make the kit available for Covid-19 testing on the ground by the end of May.

On Camera

‘I am Assam,’ Zubeen Garg had said. He was the soundtrack to our lives

Zubeen Garg's funeral entered the Limca Book of Records as the fourth-largest such procession in the world.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

China navy achieves breakthrough with new fighter jet launch system. What are electromagnetic catapults

China’s most advanced aircraft carrier—Fujian—uses electromagnetic catapults, a core component of future aircraft carriers.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.