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Wall Street's equity capital markets see a resurgence with IPOs and equity offerings surpassing $20 billion in the first half of 2024, marking the strongest start since 2021. Enhanced investor engagement and favorable market conditions signal a pote...

FLirt Covid 19 Virus: Scientists are studying the FLiRT variants, subvariants of the Omicron lineage, which may be more contagious and evade immunity better. The FLiRT variants, derived from the JN.1 variant, are demonstrating increased 'fitness' an...

Is there a half-sibling in Prince William and Prince Harry's midst? Simon Charles Dorante-Day staunchly maintains so! The Australian is convinced that he is the offspring of King Charles III and his consort, Camilla Parker Bowles. Day was adopted by...

​​Former MP and TMC candidate Mahua Moitra is contesting for the seat against BJP's newcomer Amrita Roy, who claims direct descent from Raja Krishna Chandra Roy.

The FLiRT variant, a group of new Covid-19 variants belonging to Omicron's JN.1 lineage, is rapidly spreading in the US. Variants KP.2 and KP 1.1, considered more infectious than previous Omicron variants, are causing concern. Experts warn of a pote...

The committee, headed by Congress national president Mallikarjun Kharge, is yet to finalise the candidates for Kolar, Chitradurga, Chikkaballapur, Chamarajanagar and Bellary constituencies.

A total of 2,593 cases of Covid sub-variant JN.1 and its lineages have been detected in India, according to the INSACOG data. The World Health Organization (WHO) has classified JN.1 as a separate "variant of interest" given its rapidly-increasing sp...

As of now, 2,100 cases of the COVID-19 sub-variant JN.1 and its lineages have been detected in India, according to the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG). Among them, there are 829 sequences of JN.1 across 18 states and Union Territorie...

Roshan, whose full name was Roshan Lal Nagrath, composed film music during the 1950s and 1960s, including 'Bawre Nain', 'Taj Mahal', 'Chandni Chowk', 'Barsaat Ki Raat', 'Dil Hi To Hai', 'Chitralekha' and 'Noor Jehan'. He died in 1967.

Given the emergence of variants of COVID-19 virus with variable transmissibility and their possible health implications, INSACOG network laboratories conducts whole genome sequencing of samples for detection of mutant variants of the virus.

​​Hitting back, BJP State president Nalin Kumar Kateel said the JD(S) leader's statement against the RSS is unbecoming of a former Chief Minister, and his claims about 8 or 9 Deputy Chief Ministers are borne out of a mindset that is rooted in dynast...

Regional balance has seldom been achieved with many high courts going unrepresented in the SC for long years. Meritorious and senior judges from these unrepresented HCs, who have spent considerable time heading the judiciaries of various states, con...

Amid the declining trajectory of daily Covid-19 cases in India, the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Consortium on Genomics (INSACOG) on Sunday said that the Omicron and its sub-lineages continue to be the dominant variant in India.

A few deaths that have been reported recently, are due to comorbidities. Covid appropriate behavior is likely to reduce the spread of the infection and hence continues to be recommended,” the Insacog had said in its earlier bulletin.

​​“The whole genome sequencing was conducted by the Institute of Science Education and Research, and its finding has been confirmed by the Indian Biological Data Centre in Faridabad. As many as seven patients, all from Pune, were detected with the i...

The scientists from multiple institutions were examining Omicron's BA.4 and BA.5 sublineages - which the World Health Organization last month added to its monitoring list. They took blood samples from 39 participants previously infected by Omicron w...

The World Health Organisation has said that it is continuing to monitor "several descendent lineages" of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, including two new sublineages that have additional mutations associated with potential "immune escape ch...

Scientists who are sequencing the positive samples have seen that the both the original Omicron variant, B.1.1.529, and a sub-lineage of Omicron, BA.1, are dominating the samples, the report stated.

China has reported a sudden flare-up of COVID-19 cases in Zhejiang Province which registered 138 locally-transmitted confirmed cases stated to be that of Delta strain "sub-lineage AY. 4", prompting officials to bar millions of people in the eastern ...