Ruchira Kamboj who is currently the Indian Ambassador to Bhutan has been appointed as the next Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations at New York.
The inaugural batch of the 'Google for Startups Accelerator - India Women Founders' will accept up to 20 women-founded/ co-founded startups in the country, and support them through a three-month program.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed senior Indian diplomat Amandeep Singh Gill as his envoy on technology to coordinate programs for international digital cooperation.
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.