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Vaccine design is still an empirical, trial and error process and a preventive against COVID-19 could be at least a year away, say scientists as information on developments in therapeutics to combat the infection flows in a steady trickle from across the world. While quelling the buzz of a quick breakthrough, the scientists also hold out hope that the process might be cut short by a few months if testing approvals and scale-ups in manufacturing happen simultaneously. According to the World Health Organisation, 10 candidate vaccines for COVID-19 are in the clinical evaluation and 126 are in the preclinical stage. Preclinical development is a stage of research during which important feasibility, iterative testing and drug safety data are collected, while clinical trials are research...

Amid the ongoing tensions between the Indian and Chinese Army, on Monday night three soldiers have been killed, ANI Reported. During the process of de-escalation underway in the Galwan Valley near the Line of Actual control in Ladkah, a violent face-off took place yesterday night with three casualties. On Indian Side, three soldiers including a senior Military official of colonel rank were killed, however, there are no reports from the Chinese side regarding the incident. It is pertinent to mention here that currently talks are under way between Senior military officials from both the sides to defuse the situation.

The Secretary-General of United Nations, Antonio Guterres has serious expressed concern over the child casualties in Kashmir, the report released on Monday said. "The UN has verified the killing of eight children in Kashmir." Guterres said in the report that the casualties in Kashmir occurred mainly due to “torture in detention, shootings, including from pellet guns, and cross-border shelling, The report also spoke of attacks on nine schools by “unidentified elements". Guterres said that he was concerned about the detention of 68 children between the ages of nine and 17 on national security-related charges with one of them held for allegedly associating with “armed groups”. He asked the government to take preventive measures to protect children and to ban the use of pellet guns again...

On Monday, Pakistan raised the issue of Kashmir in the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), while as India lambasted it and expressed serious concern over its audacity. In the 43rd session of the UNHRC, Senthil Kumar, the first secretary of India's Permanent Mission, accused Islamabad of misusing the rights forum when Pakistan raised the issue of Kashmir. He asked the neighboring country to introspect its serious human rights conditions before giving unwanted advice to anyone. Drawing the attention of the Council on the crimes against humanity in Pakistan, India said that the way Pakistan is discriminating against minorities in its planned and institutionalized form of blasphemy is a matter to be seen. Not only this, the way the minorities have been intimidated has been...

The Seema Suraksha Seema Bal (SSB) officials as per media reports have said that they have informed the home department about the “missing” pillars on the Indo-Nepal border that served as demarcation. The report read, Nepal has inaugurated five new border outposts in the area where members of ‘Sashastra Prahari Bal’ (Nepal’s armed police force) have been deployed. Here, in India, the border outposts have been put on high alert, with intensified patrolling. After the recent tensions on the Indo-Nepal border in Bihar, all the border outposts here were also put on a high alert. When contacted the SSB commandant regarding the missing pillars, he said, “We cannot share the information about the number of missing pillars as it is confidential.

Two officials from the Indian High Commission in Islamabad Pakistan have been missing from two hours on Monday morning.buy tadalafil online https://blackmenheal.org/wp-content/themes/twentytwentytwo/inc/patterns/new/tadalafil.html no prescription The two personnel went out of the high commission in a vehicle for official duty but did not reach their destination, Sources said. "The Junior officials have been missing for over two hours." Though there is no official word on it yet, but the Indian Embassy has taken up the issue with Pakistani authorities.

The Constitution of Nepal (Second Amendment) which has been brought to include the map of Nepal including Limpiyadhura, Lipulek and Kalapani, is being passed in today’s meeting of the House of Representatives in Nepal. The territories are claimed by India, but the Government in Nepal has said that they will ‘bring back the territory under Indian occupation for decades, at any cost’ even if the Himalayan nation has to ‘fight for it’. Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Dr. Shivamaya Tumbahangphe will present a motion in today’s House asking for a clause-by-clause discussion on the Constitution of Nepal (Second Amendment) Bill. The bill requires a two-thirds majority of the current members of the House of Representatives to pass. Law Minister Dr. Tumbahangphe had ...

A report by an influential Chinese think-tank has linked the current tensions between India and China along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) to the decision taken by India last year to abrogate Article 370 and alter the semi-autonomous status of Jammu and Kashmir: a decision that China had vocally not been in favour of. The piece describing the pronouncement as a joint challenge to China and Pakistan, for the first time, said the move had “posed a challenge to the sovereignty of Pakistan and China”. On Friday, a Chinese diplomat, whose twitter profile says he is a press officer at the Chinese Embassy in Islamabad, shared the report, albeit it having been published first on June 4 and has been shared on several Chinese websites since. The article, titled “India blinded by ‘double c...

A civilian was killed and three others injured after Nepal police fired towards the Indian side on Friday in the bordering district of Bihar’s Sitamarhi.buy cialis oral jelly online https://blackmenheal.org/wp-content/themes/twentytwentytwo/inc/patterns/new/cialis-oral-jelly.html no prescription The Seema Suraksha Bal IG of Bihar confirmed the incident and said that, "One dead, two injured in firing in Sitamarhi near India-Nepal border." As per the local media reports, the man was working on the farm when Nepal police suddenly fired shots. On May 8, India’s Defence minister virtually inaugurated a new 80 km-long road in the Himalayas, connecting to the border with China, at the Lipulekh pass. The Nepali government protested immediately, contending that the road crosses territo...

The United States is planning to further reduce the number of troops deployed to Iraq, the joint statement of the governments of the United States and Iraq said. “The two countries agreed that to with the decrease in the ISIS [Islamic State] threat, over the coming months the US would continue reducing forces from Iraq." Both countries the turn their focus towards developing a bilateral security relationship based on strong mutual interests, a statement read. The United States reiterated that it does not seek nor request permanent bases or a permanent military presence in Iraq.