MCD has implemented containment measures, directing all district health officers & epidemiologists to ramp up vector control efforts. The disease claimed 10 lives in Assam in July.
Cases have been reported from Karnataka and Kerala, and at least three districts in Maharashtra — Pune, Kolhapur and Ahmednagar. Till 8 July morning, number of confirmed cases was 9.
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’.
For four years, ICMR-VCRC has been preparing mosquitoes that carry strains of a bacteria called Wolbachia, which can reduce pathogen transmission in mosquitoes.
Clean energy is “no longer the sideshow, it is the show”, BVR Subrahmanyam told the Odisha summit, warning India to lead the global shift or risk others’ tech dominance.
Dubai airshow crash & pilot death have rekindled concerns over pilot safety, and need for smarter automated systems that can step in when G-forces, temporary loss of consciousness hit the pilot.
None of Pakistan’s PMs has lasted 5 years. That the current PM has given Asim Munir 5 years shows that of all military dictatorships history has seen, Pakistan’s is most creative.
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