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- Bharat Biotech on Thursday said that every batch of its COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin is subjected to over 200 quality control tests followed by the submission of samples to the Central Drugs Laboratory.
- Director General of Coast Guard, K Natarajan, has been elected as the next Executive Director of the Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia (ReCAAP).
- Indian airlines and airports incurred financial losses worth ₹22,400 crore in financial year 2020-21, Minister of State for Civil Aviation VK Singh said.
- Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee on Thursday apprehended that a third COVID-19 wave might adversely impact India’s GDP growth, pulling it down to 7% in 2021-22.
- In seven years of PM Narendra Modi’s government, 75% of stolen heritage antiquities returned to India, Union Minister G Kishan Reddy informed the Parliament on Thursday, calling it a matter of pride.
- Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure has been imposed in Bengaluru till 6 am on August 16, according to an order by the city’s police amid a gradual rise in COVID-19 cases.
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