India Won United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Non-Permanent Seat After 19 years

India Gets Non-Permanent Membership of UNSC After 19 Years After a gap of 19 years India was elected as a non-permanent member to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). India got 187 votes in its favour out of 192 member UN General Assembly. This is the highest number of votes received by any country for getting a non-permanent seat into the UNSC in the past five years. Germany, South Africa, Colombia and Portugal also get the non-permanent seat along with Inida. Though its a non-permanent seat and term will be…

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India launched indigenous swine flu vaccine

In just over a year since the first case of swine flu was taken in account, there are over 1500 deaths reported in India. With aim of reducing dependency on importing swine flu vaccine, India was developing indigenous swine flu vaccine and had launched its first indigenous swine flu vaccine on 3 June, 2010; to fight H1N1 virus. This homemade swine flu vaccine was commenced by Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad. Zydus Cadila is the manufacturing company of the first indigenously developed H1N1 virus fighter- the Vaxiflu-S. Vaxiflu-S is priced…

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