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Jun 13, 2022

Indian Students Leaving Ukraine will be Accepted by Russian Varsities

Indian students who had to leave studies midway as they fled the Russia-Ukraine conflict will be offered admission in Russian universities without them losing out on their previous academic years, Roman Babushkin, Deputy Chief of Mission of Russian Embassy in New Delhi, said.
Babushkin said that the students would be admitted to Russian universities where they can continue with their respective courses from where they were left off without losing out on the previous years of study.
The statement came in response to queries by reporters on the fate of the over 20,000 students who fled Ukraine after Russia invaded that country in February this year.

India's First COVID-19 Vaccine for Animals 'Anocovax'

Agriculture Minister, Narendra Singh Tomar launched the country's first homegrown COVID-19 vaccine "Anocovax" for animals, developed by Haryana-based ICAR-National Research Centre on Equines (NRC). Anocovax is an inactivated SARS-CoV-2 Delta (COVID-19) vaccine for animals. The immunity induced by Anocovax neutralises both Delta and Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2.
The COVID-19 vaccine for animals, Anocovax, is effective and capable of neutralising both Delta and Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2.
The Union Minister Narendra Singh Tomar also launched 'CAN-CoV-2 ELISA kit', an antibody detection kit against SARS-CoV-2 for animals.
It is a sensitive and specific nucleocapsid protein-based indirect ELISA kit.
The antibody detection kit has also been indigenously developed in India and a patent has been filed for it.

Jun 12, 2022

'First Time in History': Cancer Vanishes for every Patient in Drug Trial

An Indian-origin patient was among those who had a "miracle" cure using a cancer medication that is being tried out by a research centre, achieving an unprecedented healing rate when all 14 patients in the trial had their cancers disappear.
In the trial at the Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Centre in New York using dostarlimab, "the rectal cancer disappeared after immunotherapy -- without the need for the standard treatments of radiation, surgery, or chemotherapy -- and the cancer has not returned in any of the patients, who have been cancer-free for up to two years.
According to researchers, this was the first time that all the patients in a cancer trial were completely healed with a medication and they did not have serious side-effects.

Jun 11, 2022

Jindal Global University Ranks No. 1 in 2023 QS Rankings

OP Jindal Global University (JGU) was ranked India's No 1 private university for the third year in a row, according to the QS World University Rankings, 2023, released in New York, US. London-based Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) analysed a total of 2,462 institutes and ranked 1,422 of them in the world, including 41 institutes from India. JGU was ranked in the 651-700 band this year, making it the only Indian private university to have found a place among the world's top 700 universities.
JGU focuses solely on social sciences, arts and humanities. It is the only Indian non-STEM and non-Medicine university to have found a place in the QS rankings. For the QS rankings, universities are evaluated on the basis of academic reputation, employer reputation, faculty-student ratio, citations per faculty, international faculty ratio and international students ratio. In faculty-student ratio, JGU is the second highest-ranked Indian university. In international faculty ratio, JGU is the third highest-ranked Indian university. In employer reputation, JGU scored higher than 31 of the 41 institutes ranked from India.

Jun 10, 2022

Five Indian Schools Shortlisted for First-ever World's Best School Prizes

Five inspirational Indian schools were named in the top-10 shortlists across different categories for the inaugural USD 2,50,000 World's Best School Prizes, launched in the UK to celebrate schools worldwide for their enormous contribution to society's progress.
SVKM's CNM School in Mumbai and SDMC Primary School Lajpat Nagar III in New Delhi have both been named in the top 10 shortlist for World's Best School Prize for Innovation. Khoj School in Mumbai and PCMC English Medium School, Bopkhel, in Pune are among the top 10 schools shortlisted for the prize in the Community Collaboration category.
The World's Best School Prizes are founded by UK-headquartered digital media platform T4 Education in partnership with Accenture, American Express, Yayasan Hasanah, Templeton World Charity Foundation, and the Lemann Foundation. The three finalists for each of the five prizes – Community Collaboration, Environmental Action, Innovation, Overcoming Adversity, and Supporting Healthy Lives – will be announced in October 2022. The winners of the World's Best School Prizes will be announced in same month at World Education Week, when a prize of USD 2,50,000 will be equally shared among the winners of the five prizes, with each receiving an award of USD 50,000.

IISc is Top Indian University in Global Rankings, Overtakes IITs

Rising 31 places in a year, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru emerged as the highest ranked Indian institute in the 2023 edition of the QS World University rankings, pushing IIT-Bombay to the second position, followed by IIT-Delhi.
Apart from IISc at 155, IIT-Bombay (IIT-B) and IIT-Delhi (IIT-D), which have risen five and 11 places to rank 172 and 174 respectively, are the only other Indian institutes in the global league of top 200, in continuation of a trend since 2017. The total number of Indian institutes among the top 1,000 globally has risen to 27 from 22.
QS spokesperson William Barbieri attributed the remarkable rise of IISc, which is one of the eight public Institutes of Eminence (IoE), to improvement across four out of six parameters based on which the rankings are prepared.
These parameters are — academic reputation (AR), employer reputation (ER), faculty-student ratio (FSR), citations per faculty (CpF), international faculty ratio and international students' ratio.

Jun 09, 2022

Union Health Minister Releases FSSAI's 4th State Food Safety Index on World Food Safety Day

On the occasion of World Food Safety Day, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya released the 4th State Food Safety Index. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) compiled the report to assess states' performance across five food safety categories. The winning State/UTs based on the rating for the year 2021-22 were additionally honoured by the Health Minister for their outstanding performance across five food safety metrics.
The Health Minister also congratulated the 11 winning smart cities of the EatSmart Cities Challenge, which was launched by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) in collaboration with the Smart Cities Mission under the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs last year (MoHUA). He also presented the Eat Right Research Challenge for Cities and Districts, as well as the Eat Right Research Awards and Grants, to the recipients.

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