WHO chief calls for more investments in public health

World Health Organisation Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Sunday called on countries to make greater investment in their public health systems to make the world better prepared for future epidemics and pandemics.

China sends top official to Nepal amid political crisis

A senior Chinese official arrived in Kathmandu on Sunday to assess the political situation, local party officials said, a first diplomatic step by the neighbouring power after Nepal’s Prime Minister dissolved parliament a week ago.

High precision atomic clock is here

A team of researchers have reported in the journal Nature that they have built an atomic clock that measures not a cloud of randomly oscillating atoms, as state-of-the-art designs measure now, but instead atoms that have been quantumly entangled.

VIT Chennai holds virtual convocation ceremony

The annual convocation ceremony of VIT Chennai was recently conducted virtually to confer degrees on 2039 graduants, who have successfully completed their respective courses : Ph.D., MS (By Research), MBA, MCA, M.Tech. Software Engineering (Integrated), M.S Software Engineering (Integrated), M.Tech., B.Tech., B.A.,LL.B.(Hons.), and B.B.A.,LL.B.(Hons.).

How effective are herbal immunomodulators in Covid treatment?

The Himalaya Drug Company recently shared the results of the clinical study it commissioned to evaluate the role of its herbal products (Tab. Septilin and Tab. Bresol in combination) as an adjuvant treatment in mildly symptomatic and asymptomatic Covid-19–positive patients.