Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman of University of Pennsylvania, were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology on Monday. In the battle against Covid-19, one of the gamechangers has been the mRNA vaccine, which was rolled out and administered in quick time. The road to the development of mRNA vaccines, however, was fraught with challenges. Messenger RNA (mRNA) produced in the lab could not be directly administered; part of its composition needed to be modified to make the vaccine safe and effective.-hindustantimes.com
New Delhi India’s negotiations with the UK for a trade deal could hit a roadblock as Indian industries are unwilling to offer import duty concessions to British manufacturers without London allowing easier mobility for Indian professionals, people with direct knowledge of the talks said on Monday.-hindustantimes.com
Google is going to discontinue its long-standing feature within Gmail from January 2024. Gmail's basic HTML view will no longer be supported and will be replaced with a new version, reported Asianet News. This HTML feature has been available for over a decade but will be automatically replaced with the Standard view after the specified deadline. Gmail users received notifications about this change through email.-livemint.com
India has told Canada to withdraw dozens of diplomats from the country, in an escalation of the crisis that erupted when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said New Delhi may have been linked to the murder of a Canadian Sikh. Ottawa has been told by New Delhi that it must repatriate roughly 40 diplomats by October 10, according to people familiar with the demand. One person said India had threatened to revoke the diplomatic immunity of diplomats who remain after that date.-Financial Times
Following deaths of two doctors, Kerala police cautions public against using Google Maps during monsoon According to police, the doctors, working with a private hospital at Kodungallur in Thrissur, were returning from Kochi after Adwaith’s birthday party when they met with the accident. Police said the accident happened at Gothuruth near Paravur when they took a wrong turn at a junction, following directions from Google Maps. One of the car occupants told the police that they had lost their way following the digital maps.-indianexpress.com
Mumbai: The Mahanagar Gas Limited (MGL) on Sunday reduced the prices of compressed natural gas (CNG) and domestic piped natural gas (DPNG) by ₹3/Kg and ₹2/standard cubic metre (SCM) respectively in and around the island city. “The revised price of CNG will be ₹76/kg and DPNG ₹47/SCM effective from midnight of October 1-2,” MGL said in a statement.-hindustantimes.com
Tourism accounts for around 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions, with around half coming from flying to and from destinations. As airlines and hotels out-compete each other on price, post-pandemic tourist numbers are breaking records, with one million people arriving in Greece per week in the summer of 2022 — despite high inflation and an energy crises driven by the war on Ukraine, and intense wildfires linked to climate change.-hindustantimes.com
The closure of the India-Nepal land border at Panitanki, near Siliguri, for foreign tourists (only Indians and Nepalese nationals are allowed to use this land border), that too without any official notice, has caused a major dent in tourism in this region. Despite the issue being raised in different forums — both national and region — the matter is yet to be addressed.-millenniumpost.in
In a historic turn of events, Hotel Polo Towers Group partnered with the Department of Tourism, Government of Nagaland, to announce a milestone agreement of bringing in the first five-star properties in the state. The agreement encompasses the development of a five-star hotel with a mall in Dimapur and a five-star in Kohima. The projects include, 200+ extravagant rooms across both hotels. The approximate direct and indirect investment in these projects is estimated to be 150 cr.Both projects will be released under a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model and will operate on a Design, Build, Maintain, Operate, Manage, and Transfer (DBMOMT) basis.-hotelierindia.com
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