India Embassy to work out Trump-Modi meet
New Delhi: Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar during his recent visit to Washington interacted with high ups in America’s President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team. The Indian Embassy in Washington will now work out a meeting between Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for sometime early next year after Trump takes over as the US President. “Foreign Secretary did visit the United States as part of regular bilateral consultations. He met with the members of the current Administration and had meetings in the US Congress. It is also my understanding that Foreign Secretary interacted with very senior levels of the Trump transition team,” said MEA spokesperson Vikas Swarup on Thursday.
Drive to crub open defecation in Faridabad
New Delhi: As a part of the ongoing Central drive ‘Swachchhata Pakhwada’ for encouraging use of toilets among open defecators, the Municipal Corporation of Faridabad on Thursday conducted an intensive ODF triggering exercise led by Sonal Goel, Commissioner MCF at different locations in the city including railway tracks, bye pass roads which are considered to be prone to open defecation. The team urged the citizens to construct toilets in their households, said an official statement here.
Govt’s boost to dengue vaccine Research
New Delhi: The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) under Ministry of Science & Technology has been supporting the research on dengue vaccine in a major way under the aegis of Indo-US Vaccine Action Programme (VAP) and the Vaccine Grand Challenge Programme (VGCP). Efforts have been supported for the development of safe, efficacious and inexpensive dengue vaccine and continued support will be provided based on review of the programme and the milestones achieved, MoS for Science & Technology and Earth Sciences YS Chowdhary said on Thursday in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha.
IlBS conducts two transplants
New Delhi: In the run-up to the Indian Organ Donation Day to be celebrated on Sunday, prominent Delhi-based Super Specialty Hospital, Institute of liver and Billary Sciences (IlBS) conducted two transplants Wednesday. While a living donor renal transplant was carried out for an EWS/BPl patient free of cost, a cadaveric liver from a brain dead female patient is being transplanted on to a 38-year-old male patient of chronic liver disease at the Institute. Till date IlBS has conducted 348 liver and 118 kidney transplants, said Dr S K Sarin, Director, IlBS.