Tag: Oxford University
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British theatre, film director Peter Brook dies at age 97
The two-time Tony Award winner directed the film adaptations of his best stage works as well as the 1963 movie “Lord of the Flies.”
July 3, 2022 -
Oxford University to launch Pandemic Sciences Centre
"The Covid-19 pandemic has shown us that spectacular advances are possible through an alliance of science, the public sector and industry -- creating digital disease control tools, diagnostic tests, and life-saving treatments and vaccines at unprecedented speed."
May 29, 2021 -
Oxford University gets ethical nod for COVID-19 reinfections study
If the participants reinfection is confirmed, or symptoms develop, in either phase of the trial, they will be given a monoclonal antibody treatment. The participants will be followed up for 12 months. They will also receive monetary assistance, the report said.
April 19, 2021 -
Covid-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca, Oxford University is safe: Serum Institute of India
The comments came after AstraZeneca and Oxford University acknowledged a manufacturing error that is raising questions about preliminary results of their experimental COVID-19 vaccine.
November 27, 2020 -
Oxford COVID-19 vaccine partner plans trials in India, manufacturing soon
Oxford and AstraZeneca are collaborating with clinical partners around the world as part of a global clinical programme to trial the Oxford vaccine.
July 21, 2020 -
Oxford college votes to remove statue of colonialist Cecil Rhodes
The campaign to remove the statue, which started four years ago, was reignited by the global explosion of Black Lives Matter demonstrations.
June 18, 2020 -
Hydroxychloroquine has ‘no benefit’, recruiting COVID-19 patients for trial to be stopped: Oxford University
The observation comes two days after the World Health Organization announced on Wednesday that clinical trials of Hydroxychloroquine drug will resume as it searches for potential coronavirus treatments.
June 6, 2020 -
India-US ‘2+2’ meet to take place today as Citizenship Act protest grip nation
The 2+2 talks are the second such meeting after last year's inaugural edition in Delhi.
December 18, 2019 -
From Cambridge to the Darjeeling Hills
The study of music is as engrossing as the pursuit of achieving mastery in any other subject.
June 19, 2019 -
Oxford University Press awarded “Best K-12 Publisher of the Year”
The award was conferred by the Indian Education Congress on 12th February 2019, in the presence of Mr Suresh Prabhu, Hon'ble Minister of Commerce and Industry and Civil Aviation, Government of India.
February 15, 2019 -
Another award less
It is yet another subtraction from the garland of accolades that were once reserved for the “lodestar of democracy”. That embroidery has frayed over time, to say the least. Amnesty International has eventually sized up Aung San Suu Kyi with Monday’s assertion that Myanmar’s civilian leader “is no longer a symbol of hope”. Hopeless too …
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November 14, 2018 -
Meeting you will be a privilege: Shah Rukh Khan to Malala Yousafzai
Shah Rukh Khan had last year revealed that he had been invited to address the students of Oxford University.
October 8, 2018 -
You are what you eat
More than body weight, a much better indicator of internal well-being is diet.
October 3, 2018 -
Teachers’ Day 2018 | All you need to know about Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, the educator
When he became the President, his students and friends wanted him to let them allow the celebration of his birthday. He replied, “Instead of celebrating my birthday, it would be my proud privilege if September 5th is observed as Teachers' Day.”
September 4, 2018 -
Nobel laureate author VS Naipaul dies at 85
"He died surrounded by those he loved having lived a life which was full of wonderful creativity and endeavour," his wife Lady Nadira Naipaul said in a statement.
August 12, 2018 -
Coming Home
If news travels fast from Islamabad to the hallowed portals of Oxford University, Malala Yousafzai’s robust defence of women’s education ought to be greeted with unqualified praise. Last Wednesday’s grandstanding in her honour was only in the fitness of things. Her brief return to Pakistan after close to six years is in itself testament to …
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April 1, 2018 -
Cloned identity
In a major scientific breakthrough, Chinese scientists have in January cloned two female macaques, name Zhong Zhong, and Hua Hua, the genetically identical twin monkeys. The scientists used the same technique that had once created the famous Dolly sheep. The watershed achievement was accomplished by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and published in the reputed …
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February 3, 2018