Several liquor quality test reports not compliant with BIS norms: CAG reportSeveral liquor wholesalers have failed to submit mandatory quality test reports for various brands, violating Bureau of Indian Standards no...
25 Feb, 2025, 05.40 PM IST
Pantoea Tagorei: Visva-Bharati researchers name a bacteria after Rabindranth Tagore that helps plantsVisva-Bharati researchers have identified a novel bacteria, Pantoea Tagorei, in Jharia coal mine soil samples. Named in honor of Rabindrana...
22 Dec, 2023, 03.41 PM IST
20 Indian scientists feature in Stanford University created global databaseThe CDRI scientists include Shrikant R. Mulay, Atul Kumar, Koneni V. Sashidhara, Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Manish K. Chourasia, Rakesh Maurya,...
07 Nov, 2021, 10.52 AM IST
No more nasal swabs: Scientists develop new low-cost Covid test that will use saliva onlyIt was inspired by the glucose test strips used to check blood sugar levels in diabetics.
18 Jun, 2021, 03.50 PM IST
Serum Institute gets DCGI's nod to manufacture Sputnik V in India for test, analysis"The DCGI has granted permission to the Serum Institute to manufacture the Sputnik COVID-19 vaccine in India for examination, test and anal...
04 Jun, 2021, 09.37 PM IST
B.1.617 variant responsible for COVID surge in J&K: GMCGMC Jammu principal Shashi Sudhan Sharma said the microbiology department at GMC Jammu was also coordinating with National Centre for Disea...
15 May, 2021, 10.42 PM IST
Indian-origin immunologist Sankar Ghosh elected to National Academy of SciencesSankar Ghosh is the Silverstein and Hutt Family Professor of Microbiology and chair of the Department of Microbiology & Immunology at the V...
06 May, 2021, 08.10 AM IST
Committee with no domain expertise approved indigenously manufactured Covaxin, say health experts“The committee is Delhi centric and dominated by disciplines not connected to vaccines and clinical research. Like in the US such important...
07 Apr, 2021, 09.45 AM IST
Investigate spread of coronavirus through currency notes, demands CAITThe CAIT has suggested that Countries like UK, Australia and Canada have switched to polymer notes to reduce the risk of spreading infectio...
08 Mar, 2020, 04.02 PM IST
Fire at AIIMS forces evacuation of patients; virology unit gutted, samples destroyedA Delhi Fire Services official said that they received a call of fire in the PC and Teaching Block of the hospital at around 5 PM and 15 fi...
17 Aug, 2019, 11.03 PM IST
Looking forward to more Japan-India space collaborations: Nobel laureate Takaaki KajitaIndian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has sanctioned Rs 6 crores for virology lab in Department of Microbiology, Shah added.
01 Nov, 2016, 03.30 PM IST
Researchers raise Goa's environmental concerns at conferenceVarious environmental issues concerning Goa were highlights of a international conference in Kochi where researchers discussed ecological t...
22 Feb, 2016, 11.47 AM IST
Doctors' white coats, neckties spread dangerous infectionsThe ever-present mobile phones are a source of spreading infections in health care settings, as they are almost never sterilised.
26 Jul, 2015, 12.06 PM IST
Meet Sushma Verma: The youngest post-grad student in the country who will now pursue PhDIn June, Sushma, daughter of a sanitation worker, not only completed her MSc in microbiology from BBAU but also topped the class.
24 Jul, 2015, 01.00 PM IST
New way to prevent dengue fever foundDengue is a viral infection spread between humans by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Dengue causes flu-like symptoms, including intense headaches...
01 Apr, 2015, 06.36 PM IST
- Span Diagnostics gets Rs 21.45 crore order for HIV test kits
Span Diagnostics today said it has received an order of Rs 21.45 crore from the government to supply human immunodeficiency virus rapid tes...
26 Mar, 2012, 04.50 PM IST
- Indian experts find bacteria to beat global heat
A team of five Indian scientists from four institutes of the country have discovered a naturally occurring bacteria which converts carbon d...
16 Feb, 2009, 05.07 AM IST