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    Disappointment Over COVID-19 Vaccines Patents Deal

    Global health campaigners have expressed their disappointment in the decision by the World Trade Organization to waive certain intellectual property rules on vaccine exports...
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    Agri-business

    Green, White, Blue, Pink and now, Purple Revolution

    Speaking of replicating Jammu and Kashmir’s success with lavender farming in other hill states like Uttrakhand, Himachal Pradesh and in the North-East, Union Minister...
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    COVID-19

    Strongmen Versus Strong Women – How Differently Did They Handled COVID-19?

    A new research study offers an analysis of the pandemic response of 91 nations between January and December 2020 and has determined that certain...
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    Early childhood development

    Over Half the Fortified Rice Required Already Produced, Says Government

    According to the Indian Council of Medical Research and the National Institute of Nutrition (ICMR-NIN), no study has been conducted to ascertain the impact...
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    Health Policy

    Improve Antibiotics Access to Beat ‘Silent Pandemic’

    The WHO says after decades of careless exposure to antibiotics, superbugs are now widespread and represent a “global crisis that threatens a century of...
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    Climate change

    As The Earth Warms and Glaciers Melt, The Risk of Glacial Lake Outburst Floods Grows

    The risk is most acute for residents of the Khumbu region, which hosts a majority of the country’s glaciers and has settlement areas close...
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    Civil society

    New Medicines May Help End AIDS – But High Prices and Monopolies Could Keep the Poor Locked Out

    On the current trajectory, most people who need them will not be able to get them any time soon, because high prices and monopolies...
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    Climate change

    Climate Change-Made Early Heat Waves in India, Pakistan 30 Times More Likely

    A full health and economic fallout, and cascading effects from the current heat wave will take months to determine, including excess deaths, hospitalisations, lost...
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    Accountability

    India Sets 15-Day Deadline for Rural Job Scheme Complaints Under New VB-G RAM G Rules

    The Ministry of Rural Development has stated that the rules seek to institutionalise a citizen-centric, accessible and time-bound framework, thereby reinforcing the rights and entitlements of rural households under the scheme. 
    IPR and patent regime

    US Startup Claims Breakthrough in Turning Mercury into Gold Using Nuclear Fusion

    Whether the process ever supplies meaningful quantities of gold will depend on breakthroughs still to come in fusion engineering and materials science.
    Civil society

    South Asia Democracy Conference Opens in Colombo Amid Regional Democratic Challenges

    As the three-day programme continues, participants will explore practical questions of democratic renewal.

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    India Sets 15-Day Deadline for Rural Job Scheme Complaints Under New VB-G RAM G Rules

    The Ministry of Rural Development has stated that the rules seek to institutionalise a citizen-centric, accessible and time-bound framework, thereby reinforcing the rights and entitlements of rural households under the scheme. 
    IPR and patent regime

    US Startup Claims Breakthrough in Turning Mercury into Gold Using Nuclear Fusion

    Whether the process ever supplies meaningful quantities of gold will depend on breakthroughs still to come in fusion engineering and materials science.
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