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Vaccines bring greater hope

But Bharat Biotech and regulators must now speed up disclosures on Covaxin

A medic fills a syringe with Covaxin, an Indian government-backed experimental Covid-19 vaccine, before administering it to a health worker during its trials, at the Gujarat Medical Education and Research Society, Ahmedabad, November 26, 2020(REUTERS)

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Updated on Jan 04, 2021 11:10 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Pune hospitals find plasma therapy effective in moderate Covid-19 patients

ICMR study has found that this therapy is not as promising in bringing down the mortality rate

A health worker takes test tubes with plasma and blood samples after a separation process in a centrifuge during a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination study at the Research Centers of America.(REUTERS)

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Updated on Oct 26, 2020 03:27 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Pune | BySteffy Thevar

No Oxford vaccine side effects in 53 volunteers at PGIMER

PGIMER had screened 97 volunteers on Thursday, of whom 65 had already been vaccinated since September 25 when the institute started administering the first dose to volunteers

PGIMER is expected to administer the vaccine to around 300 volunteers in phase 2 and 3 of the observer-blind, randomised, controlled study to determine the safety of Covishield (Covid-19 vaccine) and its immunogenicity (ability to provoke immune response) in healthy Indian adults.(REUTERS/For representation)

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Updated on Oct 08, 2020 11:45 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | ByHT Correspondent, Chandigarh

HP University offers direct admission in PhD programmes

The last date of submission of forms is October 3, 2020

Himachal Pradesh University is inviting applications for PhD programmes.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Sep 22, 2020 04:54 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Shimla | ByHT Correspondent, Shimla

Rohtak’s PGIMS begins second phase of clinical trials for indigenous Covid vaccine, Covaxin

12 volunteers administered dose of vaccine through intramuscular injection, next dose after 28 days

Covaxin, which has been developed in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and the National Institute of Virology (NIV), will be tested on 50 volunteers at Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak, in Phase 2.(Reuters file photo)

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Published on Sep 10, 2020 02:14 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Rohtak | ByHT Correspondent

Amid border standoff, Chinese student is among record 114 foreign applicants seeking admission to Haryana university

Despite Covid pandemic, central government’s Study in India portal gets Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, record number of applications from foreign students

Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, is the only state university in Haryana attached to the central government’s Study in India portal.

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Updated on Sep 02, 2020 12:30 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Rohtak | BySunil Rahar

Covid-19: The daredevils who defy scientific advice

Many continue to go about their lives, refusing to follow simple preventive health guidelines, as if the world is already in a post-pandemic era

What makes a daredevil expect a favourable outcome, of not getting infected, despite reckless behaviour?(Raj K Raj/HT PHOTO)

analysis

Updated on Aug 30, 2020 09:14 PM IST

ByPayal S Kapoor

PGIMER pegs Covid-19 test costs at ₹8 crore a month

Dr Jagat Ram, director, PGIMER, said the institute conducted nearly 30,000 tests a month for which estimated costs had been worked out and sent to the Central government.

The institute conducts reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), GeneXpert, and Rapid Antigen tests to detect and confirm Covid-19.(HT File Photo)

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Updated on Aug 21, 2020 03:25 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | ByAmanjeet Singh Salyal, Chandigarh

Mohali gets two Covid-19 testing laboratories

Punjab cabinet ministers OP Soni and Balbir Sidhu jointly inaugurate both labs. Two others testing units also started operations in Jalandhar and Ludhiana

The four laboratories which started operations on Monday are each equipped with 16 pieces of equipment, including refrigerated centrifuge, fully automated biosafety cabinet and other testing tools, costing <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>1 crore per lab.(HT Photo/For representation only)

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Updated on Aug 10, 2020 11:49 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Mohali | ByHT Correspondent, Mohali

Ludhiana’s Guru Angad Dev Vet Varsity gets nod for Covid-19 testing

To begin with, 20 scientists and lab personnel will be working in two shifts and processing approximately 100 to 250 samples per day, which will be increased to 1,000 a day once lab facilities are upgraded

Dr JPS Gill, second from left, director of research at the testing lab at Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (GADVASU) cum nodal officer, with the university vice-chancellor Inderjeet Singh (extreme right).

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Updated on Aug 03, 2020 06:02 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Ludhiana | ByHT Correspondent, Ludhiana

Private lab in Ludhiana under lens for issuance of ‘Covid-negative certificate’

Civil surgeon Dr Rajesh Bagga marks inquiry, summons lab doctor for explanation.

Only labs affiliated with the Indian Council of Medical Research are permitted to conduct RT-PCR and True Net tests to establish the presence or absence of coronavirus.(AP/representative photo)

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Updated on Aug 02, 2020 09:12 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Ludhiana | ByHT Correspondent, Ludhiana

HC restrains Haryana Police from filing challan against SRL lab

The Punjab and Haryana high court has restrained the Haryana Police from submitting challan against a Gurugram lab in alleged case of misreporting Covid-19 results. The Gurugram police had on July 9 registered an FIR against SRL Diagnostics, a private lab, for the alleged incident reported in April under the Disaster Management Act.

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Updated on Aug 01, 2020 01:29 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Chandigarh

Chandigarh lags behind UTs in Covid-19 testing

Puducherry with a population bracket similar to Chandigarh’s has conducted almost double the number of tests

A man getting tested for Covid-19 at a drive-through facility of a private laboratory in Chandigarh.(Ravi Kumar/HT)

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Updated on Jun 23, 2020 12:30 AM IST

ByAmanjeet Singh Salyal, Chandigarh

Covid-19: Why home isolation is a critical pillar

The data on Delhi’s home isolation programme shows why it is highly recommended around the world. Only 6% of all positive patients under home isolation have been required to be shifted to a hospital or quarantine facility during their home isolation period

Compulsory quarantine would have needed additional resources, diverting medical staff, ambulances, and personal protective equipment kits away from hospitals that are treating critical patients.(AP)

analysis

Updated on Jun 20, 2020 07:15 PM IST

ByAtishi and Akshay Marathe

Test, test, test, and test

Anyone who wishes to get tested should be able to do so

Health workers collect samples for coronavirus disease test, Patiala, May 31 2020(Bharat Bhushan/HTPhoto)

editorials

Published on Jun 04, 2020 06:40 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHT Correspondent

Panchkula ready for antibody tests for Covid-19

Tests can confirm suspected cases and also reveal who was infected and didn’t know it

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Saturday asked states and union territories to start the serosurveillance to identify the percentage of population infected with SARS-CoV-2 .(HT Photo)

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Published on Jun 02, 2020 08:57 PM IST

ByTanbir Dhaliwal

Chandigarh’s Covid-19 positivity rate higher than that of neighbouring states

Neighbouring states fare better than Chandigarh with less than three out of every 100 tests confirming positive in Punjab and one each in Haryana and Himachal Pradesh, though doctors attribute it to testing of low-risk groups.

Chandigarh conducted 4,467 tests in May, out of which 289 were positive, which translated to a positivity rate of 6.4%.(AP)

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Updated on May 29, 2020 10:05 PM IST

ByAmanjeet Singh Salyal

No fresh Covid case, Chandigarh tally at 27

As many as 14 people have recovered and no one has succumbed to the virus in the city so far

The UT administration has set up an exclusive ward for Covid-19 patients at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh.(Ravi Kumar/HT photo)

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Updated on Apr 21, 2020 09:11 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | ByHT Correspondent, Chandigarh

Covid-19: Slow testing pipeline as big a worry as kit delay

The 26,351 samples processed on Wednesday, according to data released by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), represents a fivefold increase over the roughly 5,000 a day number at the beginning of the month.

Medics in PPE kits during a demonstration on taking samples from Covid-19 suspected patients at a drive-through test facility.(Sanchit Khanna/HT PHOTO)

india news

Updated on Apr 16, 2020 10:01 AM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | BySanchita Sharma

Locking down is not enough. Ramp up testing

Use this period to build capacity, have randomised testing for different groups and identify high-risk locations

Have randomised testing of people allowed to move around during the lockdown. It is important that their identity be recorded, while issuing passes to move during the lockdown(Pratham Gokhale/HT Photo)

analysis

Updated on Mar 27, 2020 06:24 PM IST

ByPartha Mukhopadhyay

Coronavirus outbreak: More testing centres needed, states should contain cases locally, says PGIMER director

On an average, 50 tests are being conducted daily, right now at PGIMER, Chandigarh

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Updated on Mar 22, 2020 01:29 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | ByAmanjeet Singh Salyal, Chandigarh

Tracing the journey, and flaws, of the surrogacy bill

The bill may invite litigation, rendering uncertain the hope for those who want to make families through surrogacy

The government has tried to regulate surrogacy for over a decade. Starting with the permissive 2005 guidelines of the Indian Council for Medical Research, the government has proposed increasingly restrictive bills in 2008, 2010, 2013 and 2014 and has, through notifications of the ministry of home affairs, sought to exclude prospective parents on the basis of marital status, sexual orientation and citizenship. These efforts culminated in the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016(Getty Images/iStockphoto)

analysis

Updated on Feb 16, 2020 07:05 PM IST

ByPrabha Kotiswaran and Sneha Banerjee

Don’t jeopardise forests for mining

India needs a new policy framework to protect forests

Other than being a rich biodiverse forest and a huge carbon sink, Saranda is home to a large number of animal, bird and reptile species(HT PHOTO)

editorials

Updated on Jan 15, 2020 07:06 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHT Correspondent

State weeds out 2.81 lakh ‘ghost’ ration cards

Since the introduction of biometric-based authentication, 10.55 lakh beneficiaries have not availed their wheat quota in the last one-and-a-half year v

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Published on Dec 31, 2019 11:21 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | ByNavneet Sharma, Chandigarh

Mushrooms are having a moment

They’re popping up in papads, jams and cakes; as health boosts in bread and coffee; and in urban gardens

Namrata Goenka, is a former patent lawyer who now grows mushrooms full-time. She succeeded growing them in a spare room in her home, and is now in the process of expanding her business, via a commercial unit in Bengaluru that will contain temperature-, light-, humidity- and nutrition-controlled chambers.

lifestyle

Published on Dec 14, 2019 08:17 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByNatasha Rego

Watch: Can Kartarpur Corridor become a corridor of peace? | WorldView

In this week’s WorldView, TCA Raghavan, a former high commissioner to Pakistan and currently director general of the Indian Council of World Affairs, talks about the opening of the Kartarpur Corridor and its implications for India-Pakistan ties.

india news

Updated on Jul 23, 2020 07:16 AM IST

ByHindustan Times

Rajasthan University refuses to hold talk on Savarkar

The Congress government in Rajasthan had earlier dropped the prefix ‘Veer’ from Savarkar’s name in school text books which had led to strong objection from the BJP and the RSS.

The ICHR is holding the talks in several cities including Jaipur, Guwahati, Port Blair and Pune. The first in the series of talks ‘The Truth about Savarkar’ was held in Delhi on Monday.(HT FILE PHOTO.)

india news

Updated on Nov 12, 2019 11:36 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Jaipur | ByUrvashi Dev Rawal

ICMR research: Heart ailments behind most urban deaths

New Delhi There were 9.7 million deaths in India in 2017, with heart disease leading to the most disease and deaths in urban areas, and perinatal conditions followed by heart disease causing the most deaths in rural areas, according to new national disease burden estimate by researchers from Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and the University of Toronto.

india news

Updated on Nov 09, 2019 06:17 PM IST

BySanchita Sharma

Guru Nanak relevant in the present turbulent times: Manmohan

The former Prime Minister was addressing the valedictory function of two-day conference on Guru Nanak’s philosophy at the Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development (CRRID)

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Published on Nov 08, 2019 11:03 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | ByHT Correspondent

Brain strokes not an ‘elderly people’s disease’, hitting those below 45 increasingly

The Indian Council for Medical Research estimates one person suffers a stroke every three seconds in the country and a death is reported every three minutes.

Air pollution could also act as a trigger for a stroke and neurology experts across the globe are looking into it.(Unsplash)

lifestyle

Updated on Oct 24, 2019 05:04 PM IST

Press Trust of India | ByPress Trust of India

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But Bharat Biotech and regulators must now speed up disclosures on Covaxin

ICMR study has found that this therapy is not as promising in bringing down the mortality rate

PGIMER had screened 97 volunteers on Thursday, of whom 65 had already been vaccinated since September 25 when the institute started administering the first dose to volunteers

The last date of submission of forms is October 3, 2020

12 volunteers administered dose of vaccine through intramuscular injection, next dose after 28 days

Despite Covid pandemic, central government’s Study in India portal gets Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, record number of applications from foreign students

Many continue to go about their lives, refusing to follow simple preventive health guidelines, as if the world is already in a post-pandemic era

Dr Jagat Ram, director, PGIMER, said the institute conducted nearly 30,000 tests a month for which estimated costs had been worked out and sent to the Central government.

Punjab cabinet ministers OP Soni and Balbir Sidhu jointly inaugurate both labs. Two others testing units also started operations in Jalandhar and Ludhiana

To begin with, 20 scientists and lab personnel will be working in two shifts and processing approximately 100 to 250 samples per day, which will be increased to 1,000 a day once lab facilities are upgraded

Civil surgeon Dr Rajesh Bagga marks inquiry, summons lab doctor for explanation.

Puducherry with a population bracket similar to Chandigarh’s has conducted almost double the number of tests

The data on Delhi’s home isolation programme shows why it is highly recommended around the world. Only 6% of all positive patients under home isolation have been required to be shifted to a hospital or quarantine facility during their home isolation period

Anyone who wishes to get tested should be able to do so

Tests can confirm suspected cases and also reveal who was infected and didn’t know it

Neighbouring states fare better than Chandigarh with less than three out of every 100 tests confirming positive in Punjab and one each in Haryana and Himachal Pradesh, though doctors attribute it to testing of low-risk groups.

As many as 14 people have recovered and no one has succumbed to the virus in the city so far

The 26,351 samples processed on Wednesday, according to data released by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), represents a fivefold increase over the roughly 5,000 a day number at the beginning of the month.

Use this period to build capacity, have randomised testing for different groups and identify high-risk locations

On an average, 50 tests are being conducted daily, right now at PGIMER, Chandigarh

The bill may invite litigation, rendering uncertain the hope for those who want to make families through surrogacy

India needs a new policy framework to protect forests

Since the introduction of biometric-based authentication, 10.55 lakh beneficiaries have not availed their wheat quota in the last one-and-a-half year v

They’re popping up in papads, jams and cakes; as health boosts in bread and coffee; and in urban gardens

In this week’s WorldView, TCA Raghavan, a former high commissioner to Pakistan and currently director general of the Indian Council of World Affairs, talks about the opening of the Kartarpur Corridor and its implications for India-Pakistan ties.

The Congress government in Rajasthan had earlier dropped the prefix ‘Veer’ from Savarkar’s name in school text books which had led to strong objection from the BJP and the RSS.

The former Prime Minister was addressing the valedictory function of two-day conference on Guru Nanak’s philosophy at the Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development (CRRID)

The Indian Council for Medical Research estimates one person suffers a stroke every three seconds in the country and a death is reported every three minutes.

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