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New Delhi:  Covishield and Covaxin -- the two coronavirus vaccines currently in use in India -- have efficacy against the "Indian strain" and show "milder" illness in case of infection post vaccination, a senior scientist said on Tuesday citing...

St. Petersburg: On Tuesday in St. Petersburg, Russian biotechnological company BioPalette launched the mass production of "MultiSCREEN," the world's first test system designed to simultaneously screen for the presence of such diseases as HIV, hepatitis B and C, and...

New Delhi: China is now working on allocating medical supplies from Chinese enterprises to meet the growing demand in India, including oxygen concentrators, the country's foreign ministry said on Tuesday."We are allocating and pushing forward Chinese companies in actively...

Ankara: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that US President Joe Biden’s decision to recognize the Armenian genocide is regretful, adding that these issues "should be decided by historians, not politicians.""Biden used an unfair phrase, not based...

Washington: Joe Biden’s approval ratings after his initial 100 days as President is the third lowest for any US president since 1945, claimed the latest survey.Since 1945, only Donald Trump in 2017 and Gerald Ford in 1974, had worst...

Buenos Aires: Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine is the most effective one in the world, Venezuelan Health Minister Carlos Alvarado said on Saturday, receiving a new shipment of doses from Moscow at the Caracas airport.In December 2020, Moscow and...

Bangkok: Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Saturday that Myanmar's military leadership was "not opposed" to a visit of an official ASEAN delegation to the country to help resolve the ongoing political crisis.Earlier in the day, ASEAN...

Washington: The global death toll from COVID-19 has gone past 3.077 million while the number of cases crossed more than 145 million said the US-based Johns Hopkins University in its latest update.Johns Hopkins University is the most credible institution...

Washington: Sixty per cent of the US public believe police should be held more accountable for mistreating African-Americans and say President Joe Biden is doing too little to reform law enforcement procedures, a new poll revealed on Friday.Confidence that...

Canberra: Australia on Thursday decided to cut the number of flights from India which is seeing a rise in COVID -19 cases and limited Australians who need to go there to "only very urgent cases".The National Cabinet, which is...