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Bengaluru’s Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has emerged as the top-ranked Indian institution in Times Higher Education’s list of universities in emerging economies with an overall 16th rank. As many as 11 Indian institutions, mostly Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), are on the list of top 100 universities dominated by Chinese institutions. The top four on the list are Chinese universities--Tsinghua University, Peking University, Zhejiang University and the University of Science and Technology. Russia’s Lomonosov Moscow State University is ranked fifth. The IISc retained its position in the top 20 but dropped two places compared to the previous year. In the 2019 rankings, the IISc was ranked 14th. Among other Indian institutes, IIT Kharagpur is ranked 32nd, IIT Bombay 34th, IIT Delhi 38th, IIT Indore 61st while IIT Ropar and IIT Madras are jointly ranked 63rd. Mumbai’s Institute of Chemical Technology has got the 73rd place and Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (AVV) 90th. I

The Indian Institute of Veterinary Research (IVRI) of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) developed a new vaccine to control classical swine fever. A report published in government news agency stated that a new vaccine will be cheaper and more effective. Classical Swine Fever Vaccine (CSFV) is the most common disease in pigs that causes a high mortality rate of swine in India. India has been using UK based swine fever vaccine since 1964. The traditional vaccine is responsible for sacrificing a large number of rabbits. Benefits of indigenous vaccine • This vaccine will help to protect rabbits as currently lapinized CSF (Classical Swine Fever) vaccines are manufactured from rabbits. • This new vaccine will provide two years of immunization capacity, while the existing vaccines only provide 3 to 6 months of immunization capacity. • IVRI developed a cell culture vaccine to do away the sacrificing of rabbits. The new vaccine will be ready for commercial production w

A Coronavirus is a kind of common virus that causes an infection in your nose, sinuses, or upper throat. Most coronaviruses are not dangerous. Some types of coronaviruses are serious, though. About 858 people have died from Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), which first appeared in 2012 in Saudi Arabia and then in other countries in the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Europe. In April 2014, the first American was hospitalized for MERS in Indiana and another case was reported in Florida. Both had just returned from Saudi Arabia. In May 2015, there was an outbreak of MERS in Korea, which was the largest outbreak outside of the Arabian Peninsula. In 2003, 774 people died from a severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)outbreak. As of 2015, there were no further reports of cases of SARS.  But In early 2020, following a December 2019 outbreak in China, the World Health Organization identified a new type,  2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV ) Often a coronavirus causes upper