Mamang Dai has been awarded the ‘Sahitya Akademi A ward 2017 for her novel ‘The Black Hill’ in English. Ramesh Kuntal has been awarded for his literary criticism ‘Vishw Mithak Sarit Sagar’ in Hindi.
The Pfizer Inc of the United States of America (USA) and its partner BioNTech of Germany completed the phase 3 trial of their COVID-19 vaccine candidate, BNT162b2 against SARS-CoV-2 with 95% effective success rate.