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January 5th, 2021, by Our Chennai correspondent Cyclone damage in Kolkata, 2020. Image: By Indrajit Das, via Wikimedia Commons The risk of damage to turbines from cyclones has cut India’s electricity output, despite a longer windy season. CHENNAI, 5 January, 2021 − Although India’s windy season was longer than usual in 2020, a series of cyclones that hit the country’s coasts reduced the amount of electricity generated by wind. The storms forced operators to shut down the turbines to prevent damage, which caused a 20% drop in production. India witnessed five cyclones ...

Gagandeep Kang Originally published on January 4, 2021 9:46 am With more than 10 million coronavirus cases, India has the second-highest infection load in the world after the United States. Nearly 150,000 people have died in India after testing positive for the virus, the third-highest death toll in the world after the U.S. and Brazil. But Dr. Gagandeep Kang says that's much less than what she had feared. She's an infectious diseases researcher at the Christian Medical College in Vellore, India and has worked extensively on vaccine development. "[The virus] could have been completely ...

updated: Dec 22 2020, 21:16 ist By Chris Kay, The developer of India’s main homegrown coronavirus vaccine is already producing millions of doses of its yet-to-be-authorised candidate, but says the thought of supplying enough shots for half the country’s nearly 1.4 billion people is daunting. “It’s nightmarish,” said Suchitra Ella, joint managing director of Bharat Biotech International Ltd. “Sometimes I get goosebumps, sometimes I wake up early in the morning wondering where are we. What are we doing? How do we get there?” Bharat Biotech has already produced about 10 million dos...

Pakistan and the Afghan peace process Opinion December 23, 2020 On December 2, the government of Afghanistan and the Taliban announced that they had made a breakthrough in the Intra-Afghan Dialogue. The two parties have concluded a written agreement that lays down how the procedure moves for future discussions in the peace process on substantive issues such as a ceasefire. With the peace process nearing its conclusion, the leading question that comes to mind with regard to Pakistan facilitating the Afghan Peace Process is: what is Pakistan going to get out of a stable Afghanistan? It obviou...

The developer of India’s leading indigenous coronavirus vaccine is already producing millions of doses of its yet-to-be-approved candidate, but the thought of supplying enough shots for half the country’s nearly 1.4 billion people can seem daunting at times. “It’s nightmarish,” said Suchitra Ella, joint managing director of Bharat Biotech International Ltd. “Sometimes I get goosebumps, sometimes I wake up early in the morning wondering where are we. What are we doing? How do we get there?” Bharat has already produced about 10 million doses of its Covaxin shot, ahead of an ant...