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Today's Headlines - 28 August 2024

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Oral cholera vaccine

GS Paper - III

Bharat Biotech International Ltd (BBIL) launched its Oral Cholera Vaccine (OCV), Hillchol, on 26 August 2024. It was developed under licence from Hilleman Laboratories to combat cholera.

 

Small-scale commercial nuclear reactors

GS Paper - III

The idea of putting up hundreds, if not thousands, of small-sized nuclear reactors designed for modular expansion so that they could be bulk-produced in factories and brought to the sites in containers, has been engaging the attention of energy experts for some years.

 

Crew Dragon to bring back Williams

GS Paper - III

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said the two astronauts — Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore — who have been stuck at the International Space Station (ISS) would return to the Earth in February 2025 on a SpaceX Crew Dragon flight.

 

Ukraine’s Palianytsia

GS Paper - II

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on 24 August 2024, confirmed the existence of a new homegrown long-range weapon — a missile-drone hybrid — which can strike deep into Russia.

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