** Tie-up with Serum Institute of India key to mass production of COVID vaccines, say two pharma majors

British-Swedish pharma giant AstraZeneca and U.S. pharmaceutical major Novavax have told lawmakers that they are ready to scale up their production of COVID-19 vaccines in partnership with the Serum Institute of India.

Located in the city of Pune in Maharashtra, the SII is the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer by volume.

** India to supply four more mobile harbour cranes to Iran’s Chabahar port

In January, India supplied a consignment of two mobile harbour cranes to the Chabahar port having a total contract value of over $25 million.

India will supply four more mobile harbour cranes to Iran’s Chabahar port by the end of June this year, a government official said on Friday

** JNCASR develops molecule that may help treat Alzheimer’s

First identified over a 100 years ago, Alzheimer’s disease has no major medication till date that can assist in permanent treatment.

However, after nearly a decade of research, scientists from the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bengaluru, have developed a molecule that disrupts the mechanism through which neurons become dysfunctional due to Alzheimer’s.