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Over 30,000 Children Lost Parents Since Covid-19 Hit India; 39{29395a375d156e93286dd6e7185ccfdd643af63705165a979bd3711654ea3aad} Aged Between 8-13 Years:

A total of 30,071 children in India — a majority 39 per cent of them aged between 8 and 13 years — were either orphaned, lost one parent or abandoned between April 2020 and June 5, says data from the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR). As per the data, submitted by the NCPCR in the Supreme Court…

Hoping for ‘100{29395a375d156e93286dd6e7185ccfdd643af63705165a979bd3711654ea3aad} Protection’ Against Covid, SII Plan for Novavax

File image of Adar Poonawalla. The pharma company is also planning to start clinical trials of Covovax for children in July. The Serum Institute of India (SII) hopes to launch Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine ‘Covovax’ in India by September as its trials are in an advanced stage of completion, said its CEO Adar Poonawalla. In September 2020, Novavax announced a manufacturing…

Govt Takes to Koo to Slam Twitter for ‘Deliberate Defiance’ as Social Media Giant Loses Protection; Scientists Have a Solution to Plastic Waste

Govt Takes to Koo to Slam Twitter for ‘Deliberate Defiance’ as Social Media Giant Loses Protection The government on Wednesday took to Koo, the Made-in-India Twitter rival, to hit out at the social media giant after it lost its legal protection in the country from prosecution over users’ posts because of its failure to comply with new digital rules. Twitter…

Yoga Helped People During Pandemic, Has Increasing Global Acceptance: Harsh Vardhan

Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Tuesday highlighted how Yoga has helped people during the COVID-19 restrictions on public activities and asserted that its benefits in immunity building and stress management are well documented. Addressing the inaugural ceremony of Global Yoga Conference 2021, he said there is an increasing acceptance of the practice of Yoga across the world. The statement…