The mascot 'Thambi' is a knight dressed in the traditional Tamil attire Veshti (Dhoti) with a shirt and is seen with folded hands, apparently extending the Tamil greeting 'Vanakkam'.
India's Union Cabinet has approved the proposal on the agreement between the Government of India and the United Nations on a 'Way Finding Application' to be used in the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG).
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore have designed a new class of artificial peptides or miniproteins that they say can render viruses like SARS-CoV-2 inactive.