BSF fires warning shots along international border in JammuAccording to the sources, a group of more than 20 people with a herd of bovine animals and accompanied by three Pakistan Rangers personnel ...
Will monkeypox be a self-limiting outbreak or recurrent large epidemic?In mere weeks, monkeypox has spread to 37 non-endemic countries, with over 2,600 cases.
Herd immunity against Covid-19 was sold as the path out of pandemic. But why are we not talking about it anymore?The promise was this would herald the return of life back to normal.
17 wagons of goods train derail near Punjab's Rupnagar, no casualty reportedOfficials said rail traffic on the Rupnagar-Amabala section has been disrupted. Five passenger trains, including Jan Shatabdi and Himachal ...
Omicron natural vaccine? Experts call notion dangerous, say doesn't take 'long Covid' into accountNoted virologist Shahid Jameel said the notion that Omicron is a natural vaccine is a dangerous idea spread by irresponsible people. "It br...
Covid-19: When will we reach herd immunity? Here are 3 reasons that's a hard question to answerDifferent diseases have different thresholds for herd immunity. For measles, for example, the herd immunity threshold is 92%-94%. Estimates...
Why most economists continue to back lockdownsAs with pandemic policy in general, much of the discussion of the Sydney outbreak has framed the problem as one pitting health against the ...
View: Even if vaccines don’t eliminate coronavirus straight away, they are still useful in controlling itThe general expectation is that when the vaccine against Covid-19 is rolled out in the population it would mark the end of the pandemic, th...
Government funding for Covid-19 vaccine questioned“At this stage in India, when ‘R0’ has come down to below one in all states then the epidemic in India is self-limiting in that sense...so,...
Experts ponder if countries like India will be able to buy, distribute vaccinesThe National Council for Applied Economic Research (NCAER) on Tuesday hosted a virtual discussion titled ‘The Challenge of Vaccinating a Bi...
Can first COVID-19 vaccines bring herd immunity? Experts have doubts"Herd immunity is sometimes wrongly understood as individual protection," said Josep Jansa, an expert in health emergency preparedness and ...
Three Pakistan boys held in Jaisalmer, to be sent back homeThe boys identified themselves as Salim, Sajan and Saaval and said they trespassed the border while while searching for their missing cattl...
Forest department plans to domesticate wild elephants in KolhapurThe territorial forest department of Kolhapur region has planned the domestication of wild elephants in Kolhapur and Sindhudurg districts.
19 swamp deer translocated from Kaziranga to ManasNineteen swamp deer have been translocated for the first time in the country from Kaziranga National Park to Manas National Park in Assam.
- Jumbo fear robs Nilgiri villagers of sleep
It is nearly a week that villagers staying in the vicinity of Tinkosia and Kuldiha sanctuaries in Nilgiri area of Balasore district have be...
Five elephants crushed under speeding train in OdishaA herd of five elephants and a foetus were mowed down after being hit by a speeding train near Subalaya in Ganjam district, about 50 km fro...
- Forest dept to stop straying of wild elephants
For the first time forest officials plan to tranquilise and re-locate a she-elephant in order to stop a herd of the pachyderms straying int...