India’s first CRISPR Covid-19 test, developed by the Tata Group and CSIR-IGIB, approved for use in India

News: The Tata CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) test, powered by CSIR-IGIB (Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology) FELUDA, received regulatory approvals from the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) for commercial launch. Facts: FELUDA is the acronym for FNCAS9 Editor Linked Uniform Detection Assay. It is a low cost paper strip test… Continue reading India’s first CRISPR Covid-19 test, developed by the Tata Group and CSIR-IGIB, approved for use in India

GST Compensation Issue and cooperative federalism

Source: Indian Express Context: Issue of compensating states for the loss of their GST revenues What is the background of the issue? Creation of the GST Council in 2017, to levy GST (unified domestic consumption tax) was hailed as a great example of cooperative federalism. Concerned with loss of revenue due to the new GST… Continue reading GST Compensation Issue and cooperative federalism

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