West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to help declare Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s birthday on January 23 as a national holiday. She also urged PM Modi to personally see that the Centre takes appropriate steps to give a conclusive picture on the freedom fighter’s
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Guwahati: Officials in Denmark announced Wednesday that they would be euthanising every last mink in the country’s fur farms, some 17 million animals. The news came after a discovery by Danish scientists that SARS-CoV-2, the official name for the virus that causes COVID-19, had mutated in captive minks, producing a strain
GUWAHATI: Scientists have discovered another deadly virus in Bolivia that can spread from one human to another.According to researchers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, two patients transmitted the virus to three healthcare workers in Bolivia’s de facto capital, La Paz, last year. After contracting the virus,
GUWAHATI: The 17th general conference of the All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) begins from today at Duliajan in Dibrugarh district. The four-day conference will conclude on November 21. A host of events will take place during this session. A lot of major developments as well as changes in leadership are
India is in dialogue with the US-based biotech giant Moderna over the progress in the clinical trials of its coronavirus vaccine candidate, which the firm said has shown 94.5 percent efficacy, official sources said on Monday. Moderna on Monday said the independent National Institutes of Health-appointed Data Safety Monitoring Board