Kolkata Echoing the scientific community’s scepticism over Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine rolled out for emergency use, Nobel laureate Peter Charles Doherty says his “big worry” is there could be refusals for other vaccines if doubts over its safety turn out to be true. Russian President Vladimir Putin last week announced thatRead More

Beirut The head of Lebanon’s customs authority was formally arrested on Monday after being questioned over the massive explosion in Beirut earlier this month, the state-run National News Agency reported. The investigation is focused on why nearly 3,000 tonnes of explosive ammonium nitrate was being stored at the city’s port.Read More

Guwahati Three districts of Assam—Dhemaji, Lakhimpur and Baksa—are still inundated and 11,900 people are reeling under the impact of the flood on Monday, an official bulletin said here. Lakhimpur is the worst-hit with 9,500 people affected by the deluge, while the number of victims in Dhemaji and Baksa is 2,100Read More

New Delhi As COVID cases on Monday reached 26,47,663 the National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration met leading domestic vaccine manufactures Serum Institute of India, Pune; Bharat Biotech, Hyderabad; Zydus Cadila, Ahmedabad; Gennova Biopharmaceuticals, Pune; and Biological E, Hyderabad to take stock of the vaccine development process and chart postRead More

A forest fire continues to threaten the town of Red Lake Ont., as firefighters in the area brace for another challenging day due to changing wind patterns and dry conditions. On Wednesday evening, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) reported progress in the battle against the blaze. However,Read More

The technology industry in the Waterloo, Ont., region hopes a provocative billboard campaign in Silicon Valley will entice anxious tech workers to move to Canada. Communitech, a Kitchener company that advocates for the Canadian tech industry, has spent $100,000 on nine full-size billboards stationed at key points along Highway 101Read More

Patiala The state government has constituted a high-level committee to improve the functioning of the fund-starved Punjabi University, Patiala. The panel will present its findings regarding optimisation of the university’s salary budget, increasing its revenue and rationalisation of staff salaries among other things to improve its overall financial situation. WhileRead More

Mohali 67 fresh COVID-19 cases surfaced in Mohali on Thursday, taking the total count to 1,603. Meanwhile, five more fatalities were also reported, rising the death tally to 30 in the district. All patients with co-morbidities had tested positive after their death. The persons infected with the virus include fourRead More

London The World Health Organization says the vaccine approved by Russia this week is not among the nine that it considers in the advanced stages of testing. WHO and partners have included nine experimental COVID-19 vaccines within an investment mechanism it is encouraging countries to join, known as the CovaxRead More

London A new government-approved methodology put in place following an urgent review of England’s COVID-19 death toll, recorded 41,329 deaths from the deadly coronavirus on Thursday – down 5,000 from the previous analysis. The recalculation was prompted by concerns that the Public Health England (PHE) analysis of the number ofRead More