The Air India flight will fly on Saturday over the North Pole, taking the Atlantic route to reach Bengaluru, a senior official of the airline said.
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** India to chair UNSC’s crucial Taliban and Libya sanctions committees
India will head three key panels in the United Nations Security Council after it assumed a two-year-long non-permanent membership at the body on January 1.
** Odisha’s 7-year-old wonder kid clears Microsoft Technology Associate examination
Venkat Raman Patnaik, a Class-III home-schooled student of WhiteHat Jr from the district of Balangir, has cleared the MTA examination.
** Hyderabad second most surveilled city in world, beats New York, London
Hyderabad is the second-most surveilled city in the world, beating major cities such as London, Beijing and New York.
Hard to believe? Read on. A study — ‘The Top Surveillance Cities Worldwide’ conducted by Surfshark and published in the South Asia Journal — says Hyderabad has 480 CCTVs per sq km and 30 for every 1,000 people.
** ISRO engineer’s labour of love turns old car into backhoe
He says old vehicles can be transformed into something useful at low cost
Old car means quick disposal for most people. Not for Ben Jacob. Rather than consign his old hatchback to the scrap heap, the young scientist with Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC) here chose to convert it into a backhoe/excavator.
Ben Jacob.
** World’s biggest COVID-19 vaccination programme set to begin in India: PM
** SII to sell first 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine at ₹200 per dose
Mr. Poonawalla said the company been barred from exporting the vaccine for several months.
Serum Institute of India will be selling the first 100 million doses of its coronavirus vaccines to the Union government at a “special price” of ₹200, the comapny’s CEO Adar Poonawalla has said.
The Pune-based vaccine major has entered into a collaboration with the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca to manufacture the vaccine.
** Bangladesh military unit to take part in Republic Day parade
122-member team to join parade on 50th anniversary of 1971 liberation war.
A 122 member triservice contingent of the Bangladesh armed forces will participate in the Republic Day parade this year, a defence source said. This coincides with the 50th anniversary celebrations of the 1971 liberation war of Bangladesh.
** Bharat Biotech setting up 4 vaccine manufacturing facilities
We are planning around 200 million doses (per annum) in Hyderabad, 500 million doses in other cities, says Krishna Ella, chairman of Bharat Biotech
Bharat Biotech, which has been accorded Emergency Use Authorisation from the drug regulator for its COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin, on Monday said they are setting up four vaccine manufacturing facilities with a combined capacity of 700 million doses per annum.
** Durga ‘Bhabhi’ and Maulvi Liaquat to get their due at the Allahabad Museum
₹8 crore project for ‘one of its kind’ Azad Gallery will tell the story of revolutionaries in the Indian freedom movement.