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Seoul, Aug 2 (IANS) South Korea’s consumer price growth slowed for the sixth straight month in July to the lowest level in 25 months on the back of lower oil prices, data showed on Wednesday.Consumer prices, a key gauge of inflation, rose 2.3 per cent last month from a year earlier, compared with a 2.7 per cent increase in June, according to the data from Statistics Korea. It marked the lowest advance since June 2021.In June, inflation fell below 3 per cent for the first time since September 2021, reports Yonhap News Agency.Core inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy…

Tehran, Aug 2 (IANS) The Iranian government has announced that public and private institutions across the country will be closed for two days from Wednesday to mitigate the impact of an unprecedented heat wave on public health.”Because of the unprecedented heat in the coming days, the cabinet has agreed to a proposal put forward by the Health Ministry for closures across the country on Wednesday and Thursday to protect citizens’ health,” government spokesman Ali Bahadori Jahromi tweeted.Speaking to local media, Bahadori Jahromi said all state-run and private institutions will be closed, and institutions that provide essential services can obtain permits…

Washington, Aug 2 (IANS) Scientist and entrepreneur, Shiva Ayyadurai has become the fourth Indian-American to announce his bid as an independent candidate for the 2024 US presidential election.Announcing his campaign bid recently, the 59-year-old Mumbai-born said he wants to serve America, beyond “Left” and “Right” to deliver solutions people need and deserve. “I am running for President of the United States of America. We stand at the crossroads where we can either head into a Golden Age or into the Darkness… America becomes great when innovators, entrepreneurs, working people with skills and those committed to using common sense and reason…

San Francisco, Aug 2 (IANS) A massive fire is raging across the US states of California and Nevada, with authorities saying that it is generating extreme fire behaviour, spawning “fire whirls” and creating dangerous conditions for firefighters.The ‘York Fire’, which is the largest in California this year, has already burnt 80,000 acres as of Tuesday, reports CNN.The blaze began on July 28 in the New York Mountain Range of California’s Mojave National Preserve and crossed state lines into Nevada on Sunday as winds picked up under scorching temperatures.Firefighters were able to gain some control of the fire on Monday night…

New Delhi, Aug 1 (IANS) Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Tuesday told the Parliament that there is no nation-wide shortage of HIV drug Dolutegravir. His assurence came in response to a question in Rajya Sabha on whether there is a nation-wide shortage of the valuable HIV drug. Dolutegravir (DTG) was introduced under the National AIDS Control Programme (NACP) in a phased manner in 2020, he said, adding that various proactive steps have been undertaken to ensure uninterrupted supply of antiretroviral (ARV) medicines including Dolutegravir. In response to another question, Mandaviya said: “The MoHFW has developed a…

San Francisco, Aug 1 (IANS) Reed Jobs, the son of late Apple Co-founder Steve Jobs, is starting an investment firm to focus on new cancer treatments, and has already closed its debut fund worth $200 million, the media reported on Tuesday.The 31-year-old Reed is “expanding on his work at Emerson Collective, a philanthropic organisation founded by his mother, Laurene Powell Jobs,” reports DealBook.His father and iconic Apple figure Steve died from complications of pancreatic cancer in 2011.“My father got diagnosed with cancer when I was 12,” Reed was quoted as saying.He was at Stanford University then, studying as an undergraduate…

London, Aug 1 (IANS) Men and women who follow a vegetarian diet face a 50 per cent greater risk of a hip fracture compared to people who regularly eat meat, according to a large-scale study.Researchers at the University of Leeds analysed data on 413,914 people — both men and women — and gave the first evidence that vegetarian men also face a greater risk of hip fracture than men who regularly eat meat.”Hip fractures are a growing problem in an ageing society, and can trigger debilitating health conditions and a loss of quality of life,” said James Webster, a doctoral…

London, Aug 1 (IANS) The suicide bomb blast in Pakistan, coinciding with the much-hyped official visit of Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng to celebrate 10 years of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has put the spotlight on the Shehbaz Sharif government. While Islamabad had declared a two-day holiday to provide foolproof security to the senior Chinese official, the bomb blast killing more than 50 people has once again dampened the spirit of the CPEC celebrations even as both sides have attempted to downplay the incident.The ISIL has claimed responsibility for the blast that took place at a gathering of the…

Singapore, Aug 1 (IANS) A 64-year-old Indian woman has gone missing from a cruise ship that was on its way back to Singapore from Penang, an island off the Malay Peninsula in the Strait of Malacca.Reeta Sahani who was onboard the Spectrum of the Seas was found missing by her husband Jakesh Sahani, 70, sometime in the middle of the night, The Strait Times reported.On the last day of the four-day cruise on Monday, a worried Jakesh informed the ship’s crew that he is unable to locate his wife.The crew told him later that the ship’s overboard detection systems had…

Singapore, Aug 1 (IANS) Prosecutors in Singapore have sought six to nine months of jail-term for a man for racially abusing and kicking an Indian-origin woman who had her mask down during the Covid-19 pandemic. Wong Xing Fong, 32, was convicted in June for racially targeting private tutor Hindocha Nita Vishnubhai, 57, while she was walking to work near the Northvale condominium in Choa Chu Kang in May 2021. Deputy Public Prosecutor Marcus Foo argued before the court on Monday that the incident should not be viewed as a simple assault case. Foo said Wong had taken into account Nita’s…