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SAIL planning to set up India”s first gas-to-ethanol plant in Chandrapur
Mukesh Kumar, the Director of Steel Research & Technology Mission of India (SRTMI) told PTI that the plan is in line with the government”s aim to reduce the country”s dependence on import for crude oil besides addressing the issue of carbon emissions.
Three govt agencies launch probe in Serum Institute fire causing Rs 1000 cr losses
“The supply of COVID-19 vaccine will not be affected due to the fire. No actual vaccine was being made at that facility. We were lucky that the incident happened in a different building. The extent of the financial damage is more than Rs 1,000 crores,” Poonawalla said while addressing a press conference.
Maruti Suzuki”s premium hatchback Swift India”s ”best-selling” car model in 2020
Commenting on the milestone, Maruti Suzuki India Executive Director (Marketing & Sales) Shashank Srivastava claimed that “Swift has been the best-selling premium hatchback in the country for the past 15 years with over 2.3 million delighted customers.”
He further said, “Despite the adverse impact of COVID-19, brand Swift sold over 1,60,700 units in CY 2020, emerging as the top brand in the pecking order.”
Air quality panel ropes in top institutions; to use AI to improve air quality in Delhi-NCR
The Commission has entrusted the task to expert groups from institutions and think tanks like Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), IITM-Pune, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), IIT Delhi, NEERI and C-DAC Pune for framework development of air quality management DSS for Delhi.
The Air Quality Management Decision Support Tool (DST) integrates an emissions inventory development application and database; regional, local and source–receptor modelling; and Geographical Information System (GIS) based visualization tools in a software framework so as to build a robust system to formulate and implement source specific interventions to improve the air quality over targeted sectors of Delhi / NCR, the ministry said.
COVID-19 vaccination: Nearly 14 lakh beneficiaries inoculated
Senior government functionaries on Friday told a parliamentary standing committee on health and family welfare that India has no plan to vaccinate the entire country against coronavirus as yet and that covering 50% to 60% of the country’s population should be enough to safeguard the population.
Government’s principal scientific adviser, Vijay Raghavan, and AIIMS director, Randeep Guleria, told the panel that India does not see any foreseeable possibility of a vaccine shortage.
COVID-19: India records 14,545 new cases
The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 1,02,83,708 pushing the national COVID-19 recovery rate of 96.78 per cent,while the COVID-19 case fatality rate stands at 1.44 per cent
The COVID-19 active caseload remained below 2 lakh for the third consecutive day. There are 1,88,688 active coronavirus infections in the country which comprise1.78 per cent of the total caseload,the data stated.
2 health care workers admitted to hospital after receiving COVID-19 vaccine
The condition of both the health care workers in Jagatsinghpur and Bargarh district was stated to be stable
India proposes stricter regulations for large shadow banks
The country’s central bank has gradually moved towards tighter norms for the sector ever since one of its biggest firms, Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services,collapsed in late 2018 amid fraud allegations. The following year Dewan Housing Finance Corp and Altico Capital defaulted on payments.
Bharat Biotech’s COVID-19 shot safe, produced immune response in early human trial – The Lancet
The vaccine was granted emergency approval by the drugs controller general of India this month along with another vaccine, Covishield, developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University.
At least five mine workers killed in blast in southern India
Karnataka, home to the tech hub of Bengaluru, has vast mineral deposits and stone quarries, but the safety of mine workers has remained a concern.Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yedyurappa said five people were confirmed dead and three people including the owner of the quarry had been detained and an investigation was ongoing.