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Kathmandu, Sep 24 (IANS) Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ on Sunday arrived in Beijing to attend the Nepal-China Business Summit. After arriving here, he attended the opening of 19th Asian Games. He is scheduled to address the Nepal-China Business Summit later in the day.More than 100 industrialists are expected to take part in the summit, organised by Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FNCCI) and China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT), The Himalyan Times reported.Nepal’s ambassador to China Bishnu Pukar Shrestha will host a dinner in honour of Dahal and the Nepali entourage…

New York, Sep 24 (IANS) Our gut microbiome may have a role to play in our bone health and ward off the risk of osteoporosis and fractures, suggests a study.The findings, published in Frontiers in Endocrinology, could one day provide the opportunity to alter gut microbiomes to achieve better bone health, as scientists learn more about “osteomicrobiology” — a new term recently used to characterise this relationship.A team from Hebrew SeniorLife and Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research in the US conducted the study of older men to determine whether they could find a potentially modifiable factor contributing…

Islamabad, Sep 24 (IANS) Thirty-one people were injured when a passenger train collided with a cargo train in Pakistan’s Punjab province on Sunday, local media reported.Railway officials said that rescue work is underway at the site of the accident, and an investigation into the crash was launched, Geo News reported.The track was cleared at 7.30 a.m. after the accident, a railways spokesperson said.Four railways officials, including train driver Imran Sarwar and his assistant Muhammad Bilal, have been suspended.Former prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) President Shehbaz Sharif has expressed sorrow over the incident and demanded action against those…

Islamabad, Sep 24 (IANS) In an intelligence-based joint operation, the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) and Federal Capital Police have hunted down two agents of a foreign spy agency and recovered explosive material with arms, ammunition and suspicious documents from their possession, local media reported.The daylight operation was conducted at a hideout near Green Belt Pahari (hill), located at the Islamabad Expressway, when the two suspects were exchanging directions or information passed by the foreign agency, The News reported.The CTD has registered a first information report (FIR) and shifted the alleged agents to an unknown place for investigation.A joint team of…

Mogadishu, Sep 24 (IANS) At least 20 people, most of them civilians, were killed in a suicide car bomb attack in Beledweyne town in Somalia, local officials said.According to Beledweyne District Commissioner Omar Alasow, the explosion occurred near a market and two petrol stations, causing massive destruction.Security forces and medical teams are on the ground to support the victims of the suicide bomb attack, Xinhua news agency reported quoting Alasow.Talking to reporters, Alasoq said, “We are still gathering details related to the terrorist attack. The casualties are significant, and we are transporting the victims to local hospitals. If they cannot…

Istanbul, Sep 24 (IANS) Exposure to blue light, like that from smartphones or tablets, may lead to early puberty in males, according to a study in mice.The research, presented at the ongoing 61st Annual European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology Meeting in The Hague, Netherlands, sheds light on how environmental factors, such as screen time, impact early puberty and testicular tissue, which could eventually lead to future prevention strategies for children.Early puberty for most children does not have an obvious cause. Sometimes it is due to genetics, or there is a problem in the brain, such as an injury or tumour,…

London, Sep 24 (IANS) Nearly a third of patients showed abnormalities in multiple organs, particularly in the lungs, brain and kidneys, five months after Covid-19 infection, revealed a study looking at the longer-term impact of the infectious disease.The study, published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans showed that lung abnormalities were significantly the highest – almost 14-fold — among patients discharged from hospital for Covid than in the control group.The abnormal findings involving the brain and kidneys were three and two times higher respectively.The extent of abnormalities on MRI was often influenced by the…

New Delhi: Strategic analysts are writing a lot on the situation in Pakistan in the context of what is happening to Imran Khan in the wake of criminal cases being pursued against him with endorsement from a hostile Army and wondering where that country – clearly in an economic mess – was headed. They are also trying to analyse the implications of all of that for India. There is little doubt that the proverbial interplay of ‘America, Army and Allah’ was still in operation in Pakistan and an insight into its nuances would greatly help to make a correct assessment…

New York, Sep 24 (IANS) US intelligence agencies provided information that led Canada to hold India responsible for Khalistan leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar’s killing, according to Western-allied officials, The New York Times reported.Following Njjar’s killing on June 18 outside a Sikh temple in British Columbia, “American spy agencies offered their Canadian counterparts context that helped Canada conclude that India had been involved.”However, the two allied officials, who spoke to the newspaper on the condition of anonymity, said the “most definitive intelligence” on the killing was collected by Canada.The report coincides with US Ambassador to Canada David Cohen’s claims that Canadian…

San Francisco, Sep 23 (IANS) US surgeons have performed a second historic transplant of a pig heart into a patient with end-stage cardiovascular disease to save his life.Both historic surgeries were performed by University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) faculty at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC).A 58-year-old patient with terminal heart disease became the second patient in the world to receive a historic transplant of a genetically modified pig heart on September 20.According to doctors, he is recovering and communicating with his loved ones.The first historic surgery, performed in January, 2022, was conducted on David Bennett by…