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During the Covid-19 pandemic, authorities in India have been insisting on having a higher share of expensive but more accurate RT-PCR tests over cheaper but less sensitive rapid antigen test (RAT) for plugging holes in detection.
The Summer Olympics will open in Tokyo on Friday. Originally scheduled to take place from July 24 to August 9, 2020, the Games were postponed for a year due to the Covid-19 pandemic. With the pandemic still continuing and expanding in parts of Asia, the Games will bring together about 11,500 athletes and 79,000 overseas officials, journalists and support staff — and no spectators.
New Delhi: The tenth batch of the Young India Fellowship at Ashoka University, consisting of 188 Fellows, graduated and received their Postgraduate Diplomas in Liberal Studies at a virtual Convocation ceremony. As a result of the pandemic, this was the first instance of a fully virtual academic year at the YIF.
Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu, Hon’ble Vice-President of India inaugurated the World Universities Summit 2021 (WUS 21) organised by O.P. Jindal Global University on “Universities of the Future: Building Institutional Resilience, Social Responsibility and Community Impact” today.
Internships have become especially important these days as organisations often give preference to students who have some experience of the “world of work”. So, students now start bagging internships from the time they are in Class IX or X, right up to their final year of college.
The Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 occurred in multiple waves a few months apart. The Covid pandemic is different from the 100-year-old contagion in many aspects, but it seems similar in that it has already had two waves; the second wave was mega in terms of tally and toll in most countries (just like with the Spanish Flu).
In her eight years as an Ultimate Frisbee player, 20-year-old Uttara has been one of the few handlers (the player with the most disc time, responsible for facilitating movement), in the team, who identifies as a woman.
What does being a homemaker and a mother really mean for the vast majority of Indian women? In an essay in The Atlantic last year, Helen Lewis, journalist and author of Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights, pointed out some home truths which resonate with millions of women across the world.
There is no one encountering the devastating impact of Covid on daily basis more than frontline healthcare workers. Despite being trained over the years to handle any pressure situation, the pandemic-induced stress and anxiety have been way beyond what one could imagine.
India started the ‘world’s largest’ nation-wide inoculation drive to counter the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic earlier this year. The government of India announced plans to vaccinate everyone aged above 18, i.e. the entire adult population, by the end of 2021.
The Uttar Pradesh (UP) government’s new population policy for 2021-30 rekindles the obsolete belief that families with too many children are keeping the population poor and backward. Is it really the case that too many families have too many children?
New Delhi: A new study conducted by experts from IIT-Delhi and Ashoka University says that exposure to extremely high levels of biomass burning early in life can affect the height of adolescents in the country.
Renowned virologist and former INSACOG chairman Dr. Shahid Jameel said that data from a quickly conducted serosurvey could suggest whether and when a third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic may hit the country.
Dr. Shahid Jameel, renowned virologist and former chairman of the Indian SARS-COV-2 Genomics Consortia (INSACOG), and also one of the co-founders of Ignite Life, in an exclusive interview to TNSE says that India needs a quick seroprevalence study to know if there will be a consorted peak or a ripple, or how and when each state may peak.