by AIP Online Bureau | May 6, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Life, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday said the country needs to be prepared for the third wave of COVID-19 which experts say could be more harmful, especially for children, and emphasised upon the need to create buffer stock of oxygen. It asked the Centre not...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 6, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic, Policy, Risk Management, Technology
President Joe Biden on Wednesday threw his support behind waiving intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines, bowing to mounting pressure from Democratic lawmakers and more than 100 other countries, but angering pharmaceutical companies. Biden voiced...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 6, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
New Delhi: Extended forecast suggests that monsoon will arrive in Kerala around June 1, its normal onset date, said M Rajeevan, the secretary in the Ministry of Earth Sciences, on Thursday. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) will issue an official...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 6, 2021 | Facts, Health, Pandemic
Dutch researchers have trained bees, which have an unusually keen sense of smell, to identify samples infected with COVID-19, a finding they said could cut waiting times for test results to just seconds. To train the bees, scientists in the bio-veterinary...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 6, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
The European Union will ask India to join its push for a global treaty on plastic pollution, according to a draft statement prepared for a virtual summit on Saturday and seen by Reuters. The draft statement, which must be signed off by EU ambassadors and needs...
