Why is South Africa vaccinating seals and issuing warning against them?Scientists in South Africa have identified an outbreak of rabies in Cape fur seals, marking the first time the virus has spread among sea m...
20 Sep, 2024, 04.27 PM IST
Multi-institutional team tracks virus behind India's lumpy skin cattleIISc team led by Utpal Tatu researched LSDV strains in India, revealing high genetic variations impacting vaccine development. The study hi...
03 Apr, 2024, 04.53 PM IST
View: Learning from Goa's rabies success & slip-upGoa was first state to control the disease. But revelation of a fatality in Sept 2023 has fuelled fears the state may have become complacen...
12 Jan, 2024, 11.44 PM IST
Thai YouTuber held for having bat soup. Details hereAnger about the potential outbreak of new pandemic viruses led to Thai YouTuber Phonchanok Srisunaklua's detention. The law enforcement sai...
12 Nov, 2022, 05.58 PM IST
Vaccines: 200 years of progress -- and scepticismFour in 10 Americans, and six in 10 French people say they will not get vaccinated against the virus, even if the shot is free.
08 Dec, 2020, 11.46 AM IST
Weakness seen in jeera futures as good rainfall likely to raise outputThe September contract of jeera on NCDEX had touched a high of Rs 14,490 per quintal on August 25. It has now declined to Rs 14,010/quintal...
02 Sep, 2020, 06.16 PM IST
Indian economy expected to contract by around 25 per cent in the first quarter of FY'21: ReportDespite a 40 per cent drop in manufacturing and minimal activity in the service sector, the higher expenditure by states and the central go...
25 Aug, 2020, 04.21 PM IST
Indian economy may have contracted by 25% in Q1FY21: IcraTheir contraction estimates ranged from 13.6 per cent to 25.7 per cent and are in line with those seen in other countries hit hard by the c...
25 Aug, 2020, 03.12 PM IST
Demand from semi-urban India fires up Auto Sector's enginesSales also went up in West Bengal, Uttarakhand, Tripura, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh. Interestingly, the increase in sales in these sta...
30 Jul, 2020, 11.25 PM IST
Automakers steer towards rural markets to reap moreAutomakers retailed 60,000 passenger vehicles in the local market last month, just over a fourth of what they did in May a year earlier.
25 Jun, 2020, 03.47 PM IST
Govt closely monitoring production, distribution of fertilisers, amid COVID-19 outbreakThe Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers has also constituted a team to prepare a road map for reforms and achieve higher growth in the fe...
16 Apr, 2020, 05.37 PM IST
Buy Mahindra CIE, target price Rs 183: ICICI SecuritiesThe brokerage has made a valuation and earnings revision in case of Mahindra CIE.
23 Mar, 2020, 09.05 AM IST
Poultry firms’ margins to fall sharply in FY20: IcraOperating margins may decline sharply due to increased prices of key ingredients.
18 Feb, 2020, 02.00 PM IST
Dengue costs the world $8.9 billion annually: StudyDengue imposes a whopping $8.9 billion economic burden every year on 141 countries and territories where active transmission of the disease...
05 May, 2016, 12.38 PM IST
Why we still don't have an Ebola vaccineAmid emergency WHO meetings and frenzied containment efforts, where is the Ebola vaccine?
06 Sep, 2014, 01.51 PM IST
It's the deadliest strain, says the man who discovered EbolaThere are four types of Ebola virus that infect humans. The most deadly is this strain from the current epidemic, known as the 'Zaire strai...
02 Aug, 2014, 11.30 AM IST
- Winter aids wheat, oil seeds crops
Sowing of rabi crops is progressing with total area at 482.14 lakh hectare as on Friday.
17 Dec, 2012, 04.01 AM IST