The SARS-CoV2 genome, as it is formally known, has about 30,000 base pairs, somewhat like a long string with 30,000 places where each one of these occupy one of four chemicals called nucleotides. This long string, with its unique combination of nucleotides, is what uniquely identifies the virus and is called its genomic sequence. To put that in context, a human genome, which is more complex, has 3 billion base pairs.
The ban on international flights has made worse the issue, with manufacturers struggling to lift sensors, chips and controllers from suppliers in China. India is a big importer of electronics due to the absence of a homegrown industry. Efforts to build local semiconductor fabrication facilities over the last two decades have been lacklustre due to high costs and a lack of stable policy.
Sewage water from over 200 nalas (drainage channels) join the course of the Mithi river -- around 11 kilometres from Vihar lake to Mahim -- in Mumbai, before it reaches the Arabian Sea.
“India is an important growth market for Salesforce and a world-class innovation and talent hub and Arundhati’s leadership will guide our next phase of growth, customer success and investment in the region,” said Gavin Patterson, President and CEO, Salesforce International.
Cautioning Indian policymakers on the perils of over-regulation, Nadella said the American company would conform to India’s privacy policy when it is implemented. But “policymakers (should) always think through what it means for citizens — for Indian society — (and) also for Indian entrepreneurs.”
Startups that are disrupting traditional models or creating new markets say a shift in technologies and the market opportunity in the country are making them design new products.
The National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers (NABH) has recommended that all hospitals keep their device to treat patients in an emergency, Gawade says, although the numbers are still low.
For all those who like watching movies during the ongoing 21-day nation-wide lock-down in India to combat the dreaded and incurable Coronavirus, Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk (released in 2017) is one of the most inspiring films...
If we praise the Indian women’s team for winning all its group games, we also have to question the complete collapse in the finals. Questions have to be asked especially of the coach and the...
From trying to micromanage Indian cricket to the extent of deciding whether there should be three selectors or five, the Supreme Court is now trying to micromanage law and order in India’s capital city by...
In 1961, the United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold died in a plane crash in Zambia while flying out of the war-torn Congo. When the time came for his replacement to be appointed, there was a...
On the night of Monday, November 18, two JNU alumni, the actress Swara Bhaskar and the activist Kanhaiya Kumar, maintained that the ongoing students’ protest was peaceful and non-violent when asked by the anchor of...
Times Now TV news-channel in a programme on Wednesday, October 30, urged the new BCCI president to be proactive and move Sunday night’s T20 international between India and Bangladesh from Delhi to some other venue...
British prime minister Boris Johnson was not even born when Winston Churchill inspired his country to resist Nazi Germany’s attempt to conquer Europe. In the face of Hitler’s blitzkrieg at the onset of World War...
At 2.30 pm on the afternoon of Thursday, September 12, 23-year-old IT techie Subhashree’s life was snuffed out on a busy Chennai road when a banner illegally put up by the ruling AIADMK’s local leader...
The latest pre-match comment by Kohli has the Indian cricket captain talking about going into the first Test against the West Indies with four bowlers and six specialist batsmen, with the eleventh spot being fill;ed...
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) will not have a representative at the ongoing International Cricket Council (ICC) board meeting in London which is taking up important issues like the monitoring of...
In the wake of Team India’s loss in the very first knock-out match of the World Cup, it is time to relieve an overloaded Virat Kohli of the burden of leading India in all formats...
Team India’s selection committee chairman told the media that the all-rounder Vijay Shankar had been preferred to Ambati Rayudu because of his three-dimensional skills as a bowler, batsman and a good fielder. By that same...
The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is already striking the right diplomatic note for his impending June 24th visit to India by appropriately saying, “Modi hai to mumkin hai”. However, the bilateral Indo-US relationship...
On Monday, June 10, I had some urgent work in my bank. However, when I rang up, I was told the branch was closed because of Girish Karnad’s demise at the age of 81. (I...
Hollywood has made a few movies where the role model is a school teacher. Three such feature films which come to mind are “To Sir, with Love” (released in 1967 and which inspired the 1974...
Remember a couple of years ago when the defence minister Manohar Parrikar had to return to Goa as chief minister and the finance minister Arun Jaitley was looking after both the finance and defence portfolios...
The Chief Justice of India (CJ)) Ranjan Gogoi wanted the sexual-harassment charge against him to be heard immediately in view of what he termed as an allegation which was part of a larger conspiracy to...
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu are two states divided by a common river. Whenever the rains fail and the dispute over the sharing of the Kaveri river water hots up elected MPs from both states rush...
School quietly buries boy killed by seniors”, says a front-page headline in The Times of India dated March 28, 2019. The report mentions that 12-year-old Vasu Yadav of a boarding school in Dehradun was beaten...
In its daily roundup on the election scene in the world’s most populous democracy called India, the 97-year-old British Broadcasting Corporation has shown not just its age but its bias. Just click online on the...
Should you consider yourself fortunate if the next time you step on a Mumbai foot over bridge (FOB which takes you to a railway station), the floor suddenly doesn’t collapse under you and you find...
If instead of 40 CRPF personnel, 40 American soldiers had been killed in the February 14 suicide car bombing for which the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad had claimed responsibility, would the American news-based TV channel CNN have...
In this age of terrorist strikes, organizations for the men in uniform (belonging to not just the Indian Army but the police and the paramilitary forces like the CRPF) should have by now formulated clear,...
In a humiliating setback to India, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has suspended talks on all Indian applications for hosting future Olympic-related events. The IOC has also asked international sports federations not to organize events...
Yes, India should snap all bilateral cricketing, sports and cultural ties with Pakistan following Islamabad’s continued and shameless support and encouragement of Pakistan-based terrorist groups which regularly attack India, the latest instance being the February...
Antigua has a proud cricketing tradition, symbolized by its best-known citizen, the legendary Sir Vivian Richards, the world’s most dominating batsman of the era when he represented the West Indies for almost a decade from...
Surely, there cannot be anything more important than a five-judge Constitution bench hearing on the Ayodhya issue where the Chief Justice of India would have consulted the other four judges before fixing January 29, 2019,...
Going by media reports, the crude sexist comments on the Koffee With Karan chat-show telecast on January 6 were all made by Hardik Pandya and not by his fellow-interviewee K L Rahul who, when asked...
At a time when Congress leaders like Rahul Gandhi have been repeatedly criticizing Prime Minister Modi’s national government for not generating employment for millions of youths, the only opposition leader to prove that she really...
After the 1961 fiasco of the invasion by US-armed Cuban exiles of their homeland, President John F Kennedy put things in perspective when he said, “Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.”...
The late Martin Crowe, one of New Zealand’s most outstanding batsmen, once referred to the tall poppy syndrome (meaning the dismissal, derision or denigration of individual excellence) to make the point that the Kiwi cricket...
It was only after 90 overs in the Aussie second innings that captain Kohli brought in a forward short-leg for his fast bowlers. With the Indian fast bowlers, especially Bumrah, putting in so much effort...
There is no justification for violence, whether it is perpetrated by stone-throwers in Sopore in Jammu & Kashmir or in Mahaw in Bulandshahr. And there is no way murder can be termed an accident.
People in glass houses should not throw stones, goes an old adage. Does that apply to TV news-channels reporting on sexual harassment by senior employees in other organizations, whether in the public or private sector,...
Before this summer’s tour of England, a few former international cricketers were quoted as saying that Team India would dominate the series against what they termed as one of the weakest English Test teams. Their...
It’s bad enough that the top two officers in India’s premier crime-fighting national police agency, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), are levelling charges of corruption against each other. What makes it even worse is...
In journalism, there is something called listening to both sides of the story. And that becomes even more important when allegations of sexual assault move from the court of public opinion to a legal court...
If the journalist turned Minister of State for External Affairs (pun unintended) M J Akbar goes ahead and files a defamation suit against the 11 women scribes who have accused him on social media of...
Can a fast bowler break down with a groin injury twice in consecutive international matches and that too after getting a fitness certificate from India’s National Cricket Academy (NCA) stating that he has recovered from...
If the confirmation of President Trump’s Supreme Court choice Brett Kavanaugh was delayed by a week to allow for an FBI inquiry into allegations of sexual assault while in high school, it could have been...
A brief statement or even tweet by President Kovind, expressing his grief while mentioning not just Rewari but other recent horrific incidents, would, at the least, strike a chord among the people who had hoped that the authorities had been empowered to act by the legislation enacted in both houses of Parliament after the terrible December 16, 2012, assault on Nirbhaya from which she never recovered.
There is an old saying about pinching a baby and then rocking the cradle to stop it crying. One was reminded of this while watching on a leading English TV news-channel its “Five-Live” programme on...
Just a week after enduring the chill of an English September at the Oval in London, Team India is jumping into the fire of Dubai’s desert heat by playing two one-day internationals (ODIs) on consecutive...
Even in the most liberal of democracies like Canada (where the 22-year-old research-scholar Lois Sofia is reportedly studying when not shouting anti-BJP slogans inside an Indian civilian aircraft and at Tuticorin airport), given the perennial...
I never met him but he was there in the year of my birth. He was there when I studied in the Chennai suburban school of St Patrick’s. And he became the Chief Minister of...
A year ago, the Team India management (dominated on overseas tours by the captain Kohli and coach Ravi Shastri) decided that India’s best ODI opening batsmen were Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan and that there...
On the night of July 23, India’s news-channels quoted official data stating that attacks by gau-rakshak samitis (cow-protection committees) had spiked by 98% since 2014 (when the BJP-led NDA government came to power) and that...
It was not just the idiot box (meaning electronic media) which got carried away by Rahul Gandhi’s act of crossing the floor of the Lok Sabha and hugging a seated PM at the end of...
The treatment of injuries of international sportsmen is always a dicey affair. A hurried rehabilitation can make things worse. Going by media reports, the rehabilitation at the BCCI’s Bangalore-based National Cricket Academy (NCA) appears to...
Independent India is now nearly 71 years young but the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States of America (USA) are still displaying an attitude of almost colonial condescension in their official interactions with us....
