The Vice President, Shri M Venkaiah Naidu urged the scientific fraternity to focus on expediting the development of the COVID vaccine for children. He stressed that protecting children from the virus should be accorded priority.

Shri Naidu emphasized that the vaccination drive against COVID-19 should become a pan-India ‘Jan Andolan’ and appealed to the people to immunize themselves by taking the required doses of the vaccine. Read More

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi held an interaction with representatives of religious and social organizations to discuss the Covid-19 situation via video conferencing. Prime Minister said that the interaction is yet another example of society and government working together for the benefit of the country.

He appreciated the work done by these organizations towards meeting the challenges posed by Covid-19. He said that the help provided to people was beyond caste or religious considerations and was a shining example of ‘Ek Bharat-Eknishtha Prayas’. Read More

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will launch e-RUPI, a person and purpose specific digital payment solution on 2nd August 2021 at 4:30 pm via video conferencing.

e-RUPI is a cashless and contactless instrument for digital payment. It is a QR code or SMS string-based e-Voucher, which is delivered to the mobile of the beneficiaries. Read More

Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Shri. Mansukh Mandaviya presided over the 112th Annual Day celebrations of National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) along with Dr. Bharati Pawar, MoS (HFW).

At the event, the Union Health Minister virtually inaugurated the Whole Genome Sequencing National Reference Laboratory for Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and BSL 3 Laboratory along with a PG hostel and Guest House. The L3 laboratory complex has five floors and houses 22 Biosafety level (BSL) II laboratories. Read More

With increasing awareness about health, fitness and changing lifestyle, the demand for AYUSH Systems especially Ayurveda & Yoga has increased tremendously at international level. The United Nation declaration of 21st June as International Day of Yoga marks the relevance and significance of Ayush systems as an important intervention for ensuring the well-being of entire global community.

Ayurveda is recognized as System of Medicine in Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, UAE, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Malaysia, Mauritius, Hungary, Serbia, Tanzania, Switzerland, Cuba and Brazil. Romania, Hungary, Latvia, Serbia and Slovenia are 5 countries of European Union (EU), where Ayurvedic Practices is regulated. Read More

Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology; Minister of State (Independent Charge) Earth Sciences; MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh released “Biotech-PRIDE (Promotion of Research and Innovation through Data Exchange) Guidelines” developed by Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Science and Technology.

On the occasion, Dr.RenuSwarup, Secretary Department of Biotechnology, other senior Officials from Government and researchers from various Institutions were also present. The Minister also launched the website of Indian Biological Data Centre, IBDC. Read More

Government of India has provided the required technical support and has supported the states through logistic and financial support to further strengthen the existing health infrastructure (in times of COVID-19).

Some of the ongoing initiatives to further strengthen healthcare infrastructure include:

• With the intent to reduce the risk of cross infection to non-COVID patients as well as to maintain continuity of non-COVID essential health services in the country, a three-tier arrangement of dedicated COVID-19 health facilities. Read More

Priyanka Dutta, Inspire Faculty Fellow, has recently uncovered the mechanism by which a protein called Formin-2 disrupts neural connectivity and could result in developmental defects associated with intellectual disability and deficits in learning and memory.

Establishment of a functional neuronal circuit is essential for proper functioning of the nervous system. o understand the neuronal coordination of an organism, it is important to comprehend how the underlying cytoskeleton or the complex network of interlinking protein filaments. Read More

The Pharmacopoeia Commission is also responsible to publish and revise Ayurvedic, Siddha and Unani official formularies and regulatory compendiums. These published standards become part of Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 and Rules, 1945 for ascertaining the quality standards of Ayurvedic Raw materials/drugs and implemented uniformly across India.

So far Government has published Ayurvedic pharmacopoeia containing 645 monographs of single drugs and 203 monographs of compound formulations and the Ayurvedic formulary of India contains 986 formulations. Read More

Gujarat has bagged the top position in the country in terms of vaccinations per million people. An official release said, as many as 5 lakh 17 thousand people have been vaccinated in the state against the population of ten lakhs.

As part of the state wide vaccination drive, more than 3.32 crore doses of vaccines have been administered in the state so far. Read More

India’s nomination of Dholavira, the Harappan City in the Rann of Kutch, Gujarat has been inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage list. India submitted the nomination dossier for Dholavira: A Harappan City to the World Heritage Centre in January, 2020.

The site was on the UNESCO’s tentative list since 2014. Dholavira: a Harappan city, is one of the very few well preserved urban settlements in South Asia dating from the 3rd to mid-2nd millennium BCE. Read More

The Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, DPSRU organized a one-day webinar on mass spectrometry and liquid chromatographic separation on 23rd July 2021.

Dr. Vijay Gupta was invited as the guest speaker from ADVION X INTERCHEIM which is a Pharmaceutical company having worldwide mass dealings of liquid flow reactors, flow synthesis systems, mass spectrometers, and chip-based infusions. Read More

Our Respected Mr. Padmin Buch (Senior Advisor-Corporate Strategy & IPR, Ex-MD - GITCO, BoA of Accuprec) was felicitated by Mr. Hiranmay Mahanta, CEO of i-Hub, Govt of Gujarat. He is already a member of its IPR Advisory Committee. i-Hub is the vital nodal agency in the Start-Up ecosystem of Gujarat.

i-Hub has invited him to play a crucial role in its flagship "Start-Up Saathi" scheme - a program under SSIP to scout, engage, and leverage best mentors across domains and regions to help the start-ups through 𝑖-Hub and allied programs of SSIP.