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New Delhi, Sep 23 (IANS) Shortly after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s much talked-about India visit for the G20 summit, the tone and tenor of the relations between the two nations changed in the aftermath of the assassination of prominent Khalistan supporter Hardeep Singh Nijjar, causing a fissure between communities — in both Canada and India.This development necessitates understanding how the Indian diaspora in Canada has evolved and come to affect not only bilateral associations, but also polarise the Canadian Indian community to the extent of inciting concern by governments.As it has come to light, at least 21 pro-Khalistan separatists…

New York, Sep 23 (IANS) Combination immunotherapy shows no additional benefit for most advanced cancers other than skin cancer, a new study has found.According to the study published in the journal JAMA Oncology, the combination immunotherapy treatment of nivolumab plus ipilimumab, a targeted therapy drug, was associated with no improvement in survival for advanced cancers other than melanoma (a form of skin cancer), when compared to nivolumab alone. The findings also suggested that nivolumab plus ipilimumab may be unnecessary for patients with advanced cancers other than melanoma, and that nivolumab monotherapy may provide similar clinical outcomes with reduced toxicity, according…

New York, Sep 23 (IANS) Ginger supplements can play an important role in controlling inflammation for people living with autoimmune diseases, a new study has found.Researchers studied the impact of ginger supplementation on a type of white blood cell called the ‘neutrophil’. They were especially interested in neutrophil extracellular trap (NET) formation, also known as NETosis, and what it may mean for controlling inflammation.According to the study published in the journal JCI Insight, ginger consumption by healthy individuals makes their neutrophils more resistant to NETosis. This is important because NETs are microscopic spider web-like structures that propel inflammation and clotting,…

Ottawa, Sep 23 (IANS) US Ambassador to Canada David Cohen has said Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s allegation against India was based on “shared intelligence among Five Eyes partners,” the media reported.”There was shared intelligence among Five Eyes partners that helped lead Canada to making the statements that the Prime Minister Trudeau made,” Cohen said in an exclusive interview to CTV.The Canadian government has collected “human and signal intelligence” involving Indian officials, including Indian diplomats present in Canada linking them to killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, the media reported.”Based on a month-long investigation into Nijjar’s death, the Canadian government had…

Islamabad, Sep 23 (IANS) Pakistan is in its tipping point crisis where it should decide to remain a laggard with 40 per cent population living below the poverty line under elite capture and policy decisions driven by strong vested interests of military, political and business leaders or change course to take off for a brighter future, local media reported.This candid warning came from the World Bank ahead of the new election cycle for the upcoming government to make early choices while making it clear that international lenders and development partners could only advise with international experiences of successes and some…

United Nations, Sep 23 (IANS) India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar attended meetings of the Quad and IBSA on the sidelines of the high-level General Assembly meeting.Starting at the meeting’s fourth-day mark on Friday, he attended a ministerial meeting of the Quad, the group of India, the US, Japan and Australia, and of the IBSA, the India, Brazil and South Africa group.He had bilateral meetings with Tariq Mahmood Ahmad, a minister of state in Britain’s Foreign Office, Foreign Ministers Penny Wong of Australia, Yoko Kamikawa of Japan and Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani of Bahrain.US Secretary of State Antony Blinken…

Kiev, Sep 23 (IANS) NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said Ukraine cannot become a bloc member until the end of the conflict.He made the remark during a public lecture at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, Ukrinform reported on Friday.Stoltenberg said, “The fact that the war is in an active stage does not allow us to invite them (Ukrainians) tomorrow or today.”At the same time, Stoltenberg suggested that Ukraine may become a NATO member after the cessation of the hostilities in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Xinhua news agency reported.”These are interrelated issues — NATO membership, ending the war…

Toronto, Sep 22 (IANS) With Canada-India ties nosediving after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused India of involvement in the murder of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in June, his decision is being compared to that of his father Pierre Trudeau who refused to extradite Air India bombing mastermind Talwinder Singh Parmar to India.The Khalistani movement had some presence in Canada in the 1970s, but it took root here during Pierre Trudeau’s time as Prime Minister when Parmar escaped to Canada after killing four policemen in India.Though then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had forged personal ties with him during her June…

United Nations, Sep 22 (IANS) Pakistan’s caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar on Friday kept up the annual ritual of focusing on Kashmir during that country’s leaders’ annual speeches at the high-level General Assembly meeting.”The UN Security Council must secure the implementation of its resolution on Kashmir,” he said, asserting that India has “evaded implementation of the Security Council’s resolutions” calling for a plebiscite.In fact, it was Pakistan that refused to comply with the terms set for the plebiscite, thus nullifying it.The 1948 Council resolution made the withdrawal of Pakistani “tribesmen” and troops from Kashmir a precondition for a plebiscite. Because…

New York, Sep 22 (IANS) Current and future drinking behaviour among people can be predicted through mapping their brains in teenage, suggests a study.Teenage brains form new connections during adolescence. Two systems that are rewired during this time are networks related to reward and inhibition.Researchers from Yale University in the US sorted through a massive MRI dataset of teenage brains to see if they could predict drinking behaviour in adolescents by looking at how these two systems rewire during development.The study, published in the JAMA Psychiatry journal, revealed that the inhibitory and reward pathway, which broadly regulate “brake” and “go”…