October2017

News Hour: Hilleman Laboratories, a joint-venture partnership between MSD and Wellcome Trust, received a 6 million krona Indo – Swedish grant for the project ‘Improved, affordable single strain whole cell-B subunit oral cholera vaccine’. The proposed...

News Hour: Uzbek police released a prominent dissident writer on Sunday after detaining him last week on his return from exile on charges of spreading anti-government propaganda. Nurulloh Muhammad Raufkhon told Reuters by telephone a policeman...

News Hour: Hundreds of people chanting anti-government slogans marched in the central Ethiopian town of Bishoftu on Sunday at a religious festival where a stampede triggered by a police move to quell protests killed dozens of...

News Hour: When disaster hits the chemical plants in Port Arthur, Texas, triggering fires like those that flared in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, Hilton Kelley is the man fielding panicked calls from neighbors unsure whether...

News Hour: Novo Nordisk has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Fiasp® (fast-acting insulin aspart), a new fast-acting mealtime insulin, for the treatment of adults with diabetes. The FDA’s decision comes...

News Hour: India has opened two new immigration check posts along its border with Bangladesh and Myanmar, according to several official notifications released by its government. A report by The Hindu states that the Indian home...

News Hour: Two women were stabbed to death and their assailant shot dead by soldiers in the southern French port city of Marseille on Sunday in what police sources described as a “likely terrorist act”. Three...

News Hour: China’s manufacturing activity accelerated for a second straight month in September, official figures showed on Saturday, although an independent indicator was less positive about the world’s second-largest economy. The sector expanded at its fastest pace...

News Hour: Minister of the Office of State Counselor of Myanmar Kyaw Tint Swe arrives in the capital tonight to discuss the Rohingya issue with Bangladesh authorities. State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi is sending the...

News Hour: As per the government directives, the 22-day ban on hilsa fishing, in a bid to increase the production of the popular fish species, begins here today. The government has imposed a ban on catching,...