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WHO Technical lead head COVID-19 Maria Van Kerkhove. File

COVID-19 | Omicron quickly overtaking Delta globally in terms of circulation: WHO

Since December, six studies have provided evidence of reduced vaccine effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines against the Omicron variant, COVID-19 Weekly Epidemiological Update released by the WHO said

China’s Chang’e 5 lunar probe finds first on-site evidence of water on moon’s surface

Vastly different: Most monoclonal antibodies that were effective to treat COVID-19 are no longer effective to treat Omicron disease.

Omicron epidemic: third wave or new pandemic?

T. Jacob John Dhanya Dharmapalan M.S. Seshadri Both Delta and Omicron might co-exist, needing more vaccines in 2022

Conflicting signals from drug regulator, COVID-19 task force

R. Prasad On a few occasions, the national COVID-19 task force has refused to include drugs and vaccines that have been granted an EUA by the regulator

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WHO Technical lead head COVID-19 Maria Van Kerkhove. File

COVID-19 | Omicron quickly overtaking Delta globally in terms of circulation: WHO

PTI Since December, six studies have provided evidence of reduced vaccine effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines against the Omicron variant, COVID-19 Weekly Epidemiological Update released by the WHO said

A Health worker administering a shot of COVID-19 vaccine dose of Covaxin to a 15-year-Old girl in Delhi, on January 5, 2022.

Fewer adverse reactions among teenagers to COVID-19 jab: NTAGI

Bindu Shajan Perappadan Doctors warn against indiscriminate use of paracetamol post vaccination in children

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ISRO successfully conducts the qualification test of Cryogenic Engine for the Gaganyaan programme for a duration of 720 seconds at ISRO Propulsion Complex (IPRC), Mahendragiri, Tamil Nadu, on January 12, 2022.

Qualification testing of cryogenic engine for Gaganyaan programme successful: ISRO

PTI Eminent rocket scientist S. Somanath has been appointed as the new ISRO Chairman

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Salvadoran journalists' phones hacked with spyware.

Salvadoran journalists' phones hacked with spyware, report finds

Reuters The alleged hacks, which came amid an increasingly hostile environment in El Salvador for media and rights organizations under populist President Nayib Bukele, were discovered late last year by The Citizen Lab.

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Nigeria lifts Twitter ban from midnight, government official says

Reuters The Nigerian government suspended Twitter on June 4 after it removed a post from President Muhammadu Buhari that threatened to punish regional secessionists.

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Mallard or the wild duck spotted in Hyderabad at Sanjeeviah Park

Have you spotted the Himalayan Mallard in Hyderabad?

Prabalika M. Borah The Mallard or the wild duck with an iridescent green or blue-headed plumage was spotted in the city

Two cyclists from Maharashtra are pedalling along the Indian coast for a plastic-free world

Nivedita Ganguly Milind Tambe and Shriram Kondhawekar are cycling along the Indian coastline covering a distance of about 6,179 kilometres to highlight the ill-effects of single-use plastic

Residents of Agaramthen fishing at the Agaramthen lake and (below) a cowherd grazing his cattle on the eastern bund of the lake, on January 5, 2022. Photos: Prince Frederick

A lake sustains local residents during lockdowns

Prince Frederick Agaramthen lake illustrates how a waterbody can be a blessing to the local community; and the time to protect it from possible future ills is now

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Workers tying sugarcane in bundles in a field along River Cauvery near Erode on Saturday.

Sugarcane harvest for Pongal begins in Erode

Staff Reporter Increase in labour charge, transportation and production costs worry farmers

CSIR-CFTRI Director Sridevi Annapurna Singh inaugurating the webinar in Mysuru.

How to abate post-harvest losses

Special Correspondent CFTRI holds a webinar on innovation and advancements in food protection

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Workers busy at the biogas plant at Bowenpally market in Secunderabad.

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Homes and gardens

How does the 2022 garden look? Think air-purifying plants, topiary practices and online nurseries

Qualification testing of cryogenic engine for Gaganyaan programme successful: ISRO

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Indian IT leaders TCS and Infosys confident on digital services growth

Nigeria lifts Twitter ban from midnight, government official says

Salvadoran journalists' phones hacked with spyware, report finds

Eminent rocket scientist Somanath appointed ISRO Chairman

He played a major role in development of the PSLV and GSLV Mk-III

Watchdog says Google offers to exclude Showcase from general searches in Germany

Germany's Cartel Office said that it was investigating Google's Showcase product under new powers to regulate internet companies.

Graceful small-headed sea snake reported from Perumathura coast

The relatively-uncommon sea snake was spotted by a team of bird watchers while on a water bird census

How Tamil Nadu’s farmers revived heritage rice varieties over decades

The past two years have seen a surge in the demand for heritage rice in the State. This Pongal, we look at the decades-long movement behind this revival, and the farmers, researchers and entrepreneurs who affected change at the grassroots

Thieves are using AirTags to steal luxury cars, report says

Thieves place the AirTags in out-of-sight areas of the target vehicles when they are parked in public places. They then track the targeted vehicles to the victim’s residence, where they are stolen from the driveway.

COVID-19 | Omicron quickly overtaking Delta globally in terms of circulation: WHO

Since December, six studies have provided evidence of reduced vaccine effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines against the Omicron variant, COVID-19 Weekly Epidemiological Update released by the WHO said

DoorDash CEO Tony Xu joins Meta board

Mark Zuckerberg, PayPal’s Peggy Alfrod, Dropbox CEO Drew Houston and Peter A.Thiel are a few among the other board members of Meta.

COVID-19’s own groundhog day

The pandemic has irrevocably and fundamentally changed our perception of time and space

Twitter buys minority stake in digital advertising startup Aleph

Aleph did not reveal any financial terms of the investment but said Twitter's stake buy would help the company expand its educational tech platform.

Intel deletes reference to Xinjiang after backlash in China

Last month, Intel was slammed on Chinese social media for a letter to suppliers published on its website.

Rising digital dependence during pandemic heightening cyber threats,survey says

Besides, the growing dependence on digital systems -– which has only intensified in the past two years -- has heightened the risks posed by digital or cybersecurity threats.

Smart guns finally arriving in U.S., seeking to shake up firearms market

Most early smart gun prototypes used either fingerprint unlocking or radio frequency identification technology that enables the gun to fire only when a chip in the gun communicates with another chip worn by the user in a ring or bracelet.

Apple submits plans to allow alternative payment systems in S.Korea

Google announced its plans to allow alternative payment systems in South Korea in November to comply with the amended Telecommunication Business Act.

‘Cricket 22’ game review: A bowling diamond in the rough

‘Official Game of The Ashes: Cricket 22’ brings the sport into a much-awaited big-budget video game; but this one has a long way to go to get close to the real thing

In a first, U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient

Over the years, scientists have turned from primates to pigs, tinkering with their genes.

WhatsApp co-founder named Signal’s interim CEO as Moxie Marlinspike steps down

He will remain on Signal's board and will be scouting for candidates for the permanent CEO position.

Flying cars and the future in cities

Are flying taxies a viable option? What are the challenges and where will the energy source come from?

India's oldest sloth bear Gulabo dies at Bhopal's Van Vihar national park

The female sloth bear was rescued from a street performer in May 2006.

Chipmaker Intel hires David Zinsner as CFO from Micron

Zinsner, who will assume charge on Jan. 17, joined Micron in 2018 and has more than 20 years of financial and operational experience in semiconductors and manufacturing.

Take-Two to buy FarmVille maker Zynga in deal valued at $12.7 billion

Take-Two said it would acquire all the outstanding shares of Zynga at $9.86 per share. Shares of Zynga rose 40.2% to $8.89 in trading before the bell on Monday.

Volkswagen sold 70,625 ID electric cars in China last year, missing targets

Supply chain constraints, including a global chip shortage, impacted production and were factors that contributed to Volkswagen failing to reach its ID sales goal, China chief Stephan Wollenstein said.

NFT sales hit $25 billion in 2021, but growth shows signs of slowing

Prices of some non-fungible tokens, crypto assets representing a digital item such as an image, video, or even land in virtual worlds, rose so fast last year that speculators sometimes 'flipped' them for a profit within days.

Ferrari unveils new organisation and top team to face electrification challenge

Benedetto Vigna, a tech industry veteran and a former top executive at chip maker ST Microelectronics, took the CEO role in September with a task to drive Ferrari into the new era of cleaner, silent and interconnected mobility.

Indian fintech firm Pine Labs confidentially files for U.S. IPO

Founded in 1998 to provide retail automation solutions to petroleum companies, Pine Labs now offers services and tools such as inventory management and payment terminals to merchants across Asia and the Middle East.

Google is paying Apple to stay out of the search business, a lawsuit alleges

In return, Apple would give preferential treatment to Google for all Apple devices and both the companies will hold regular secret meetings, according to the lawsuit filed.

Following the trail of crumbs

Cookies are important to websites, but they are a threat to user privacy

Exports from STPI units seen at over ₹5 lakh crore in FY22 despite Omicron wave

The value of software exports from the Software Technology Parks of India units is expected to be at over Rs 5 lakh crore during FY22, almost similar levels or a tad higher than the previous year, Arvind Kumar, Director General of STPI said.

China’s Chang’e 5 lunar probe finds first on-site evidence of water on moon’s surface

It was the solar wind that contributed to the most humidity of lunar soil.

Data | As COVID-19 cases decline in Gauteng, data from South Africa offers hope

Data from South Africa’s Gauteng province show that daily infections rapidly declined 50 days after the variant became dominant

Watch | World's largest space telescope

A video explainer on the James Webb Space Telescope, the world's largest space telescope

The last of the Surveyor series

Launched on January 7, 1968, the Surveyor 7 was a lunar unmanned lander that successfully landed on the lunar surface on January 10. The last of the original series of Surveyor moon landers of the 1960s. Surveyor 7 was the only spacecraft of the series that landed in the lunar highland region. A.S.Ganesh takes a look at Surveyor 7 – the only purely scientific mission in the series…

NCBS: Zebrafish study reveals how the brain makes its connections

How nerve-end connections known as synapses form is highlighted in this study of Purkinje neurons in the cerebellum of knockout zebrafish

Can microbes produce oxygen in the dark?

Scientists say there would be no oxygen on Earth were it not for sunlight: the key component in photosynthesis. Now researchers from University of

Conflicting signals from drug regulator, COVID-19 task force

On a few occasions, the national COVID-19 task force has refused to include drugs and vaccines that have been granted an EUA by the regulator

Omicron epidemic: third wave or new pandemic?

Both Delta and Omicron might co-exist, needing more vaccines in 2022

Have you spotted the Himalayan Mallard in Hyderabad?

The Mallard or the wild duck with an iridescent green or blue-headed plumage was spotted in the city

Two cyclists from Maharashtra are pedalling along the Indian coast for a plastic-free world

Milind Tambe and Shriram Kondhawekar are cycling along the Indian coastline covering a distance of about 6,179 kilometres to highlight the ill-effects of single-use plastic

Some of the most complex cloud projects are coming out of India, Microsoft executive says

In an exclusive interview with The Hindu, Shivir Chordia, Azure Business Group Lead at Microsoft India, spoke about the growing cloud ecosystem, the pandemic’s role in driving cloud adoption across different sectors, and more.

Sugarcane harvest for Pongal begins in Erode

Increase in labour charge, transportation and production costs worry farmers

Leopards in the city

When the big cats stride along compound walls or sprawl on ledges, people of Mumbai have learned to keep their cool

Clubhouse brings support for web listening

The web listening feature, which will initially support replays and live rooms with replays enabled, does not require the listener to download the app or log in.

Weekly Bytes | BMW’s colour-changing car, Alexa’s flight to the Moon, and more

Here’s our curated list of important tech news from this week in byte size.

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This handout photo released by the University of Maryland School of Medicine on January 10, 2022 shows surgeons performing a transplant of a heart from a genetically modified pig to patient David Bennett, Sr., in Baltimore, Maryland, on January 7, 2022. Photo: University of Maryland School of Medicine via AFP

18K | In a first, U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient

14K | ‘Bulli Bai app | Niraj Bishnoi — a radicalised lone wolf

Dara Singh Chauhan at his residence in Lucknow on January 12, 2022 after resigning from the Yogi Adityanath Cabinet.

13K | U.P. Assembly Elections 2022 | Jolt to BJP as another Minister quits Yogi Adityanath Cabinet

10K | Hate speech | Supreme Court seeks response from Government

People queue up to get RT-PCR tests at Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences amidst spike in Covid cases, in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

7K | India records a whopping 1.85 lakh COVID-19 cases on January 11, 2022

7K | Eminent rocket scientist Somanath appointed ISRO Chairman

6K | Straws in the wind: On defections from BJP ahead of U.P. polls

UP Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya asked his security personnel to delete the video of the interview and also pulled at reporter Anant Zanane’s COVID mask. File

6K | Uttar Pradesh Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya defends hate speech at Haridwar religious event

Health care workers at a banquet hall that has been converted into a COVID-19 isolation centre in New Delhi on January 12, 2022.

5K | India reports 2.41 lakh new cases, 372 deaths on January 12, 2022