Author: Starvision News Desk

Beijing, Sep 17 (IANS) China’s meteorological authorities on Sunday issued a blue alert for severe convective weather in vast stretches of the country. From 2 p.m. Sunday to 2 p.m. Monday, thunderstorms, gales, and hail will sweep parts of Beijing, Tianjin, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei and Henan, the National Meteorological Center was quoted by Xinhua news agency as saying.Short bursts of heavy rainfall with hourly precipitation ranging from 20 to over 60 millimeters will scatter across China, lashing parts of Beijing, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Shandong, Hubei, Fujian, Chongqing, Yunnan and Guangdong, among other places, the center said.The effects of…

Toronto, Sep 17 (IANS) Intrusive thoughts of people with obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD are more frequent, last longer and create a need to act on the compulsion in order to neutralise their thoughts, finds a study.It may be normal to have intrusive thoughts such as a random or inappropriate idea popping into people’s heads, or to feel compelled to double-check and triple-check that the front door is locked. Typically they go away and people go about our lives.But for some, the intrusive thoughts can become uncontrollable, persistent and invasive, and so they may try to alleviate them through compulsive rituals:…

London, Sep 17 (IANS) Neonatal kidney transplantation can offer a ‘game-changing’ solution to the pressing organ shortage crisis, suggests a study.While previous research confirmed the viability of transplanting kidneys from paediatric donors into adults, making the decision to donate can be an incredibly tough process for families and caregivers, especially the organs of their newborn.A team from the Drexel University in the US, analysed neonatal mortality in the country and the long-term development of these kidneys aftertransplantation as well as the ethical and social considerations surrounding the procedure.The research, presented at the ongoing European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT) Congress…

Sao Paulo, Sep 17 (IANS) At least 14 people were killed when a small plane crashed in Barcelos, an inland city of Amazonas state in northern Brazil, local authorities have said.”They were all tourists who were going on a fishing trip,” Amazonas governor Wilson Lima told a press conference on Saturday, adding that initial information showed all the tourists were Brazilian, Xinhua news agency reported.It was reported that the pilot had trouble finding the runway for landing in Barcelos, a sport fishing destination.The Manaus Aerotaxi airline, owner of the crashed Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante, a Brazilian twin-turboprop light transport aircraft,…

New York, Sep 17 (IANS) Indian-American Pennsylvania state senator Nikil Saval has introduced a bill to incorporate Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) courses in K-12 schools.Saval introduced Senate Bill 839 along with Senator Maria Collett last week to expand education and confront the rise in bias crimes against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.The legislation would require the Department of Education to create an integrated curriculum that includes AAPI persons, history, and contributions to American society and to provide AAPI-related materials to schools in the US state of Pennsylvania.“Every student in our Commonwealth deserves the opportunity to see their heritage honoured…

Washington, Sep 17 (IANS) Calling the much sought-after H-1B visa system “indentured servitude”, Indian-American GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has pledged to get rid of it if voted to power in 2024, the Politico reported.Having himself used the system 29 times in the past to hire highly-skilled professionals for his pharma company, Ramaswamy said that the temporary worker visas system is “bad for everyone involved”, and the US needs to eliminate chain-based migration.“The lottery system needs to be replaced by actual meritocratic admission. It’s a form of indentured servitude that only accrues to the benefit of the company that sponsored an H-1B…

Prague, Sep 17 (IANS) Thousands of Czechs gathered at Prague’s Wenceslas Square in the Czech capital to protest against the government. Under the slogan “Czech Republic against the government,” the rally was mainly against the inappropriate actions of the government on inflation, tax changes and pension adjustments. There were also banners in the crowd that read “Down with the US minions” and “Down with NATO,” according to the Czech News Agency (CTK).The rally was attended by more than 100,000 people, according to the organiser, the non-parliamentary PRO (Law Respect Expertise) party.Some of the participants later marched through the city from…

London, Sep 16 (IANS) A team of scientists in the UK has claimed to have found the reason behind brain cell death which leads to Alzheimer’s, offering hope for a future new line of drugs which could cure the disease.Alzheimer’s is the most common cause of dementia (decline of brain function, memory and thinking skills).It has a variety of complex causes, including the build-up of proteins called amyloid and tau in the brain (substances which create small structures called plaques and tangles), hindering brain function.There is also a loss of neurons – or brain cells – resulting in a breakdown…

Islamabad, Sep 16 (IANS) Director General (DG) of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Lieutenant General Nadeem Anjum, has been granted extension in service, media reports said.A summary in this respect was approved late on Thursday, The News reported.Earlier, Director General (DG) of Intelligence Bureau (IB), Fuad Asadullah, was retained in December last year when now-former Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif granted him an extension of three years, a week before his retirement, the report said.Nadeem Anjum succeeded Faiz Hameed as DG ISI on November 20, 2021 when the latter was posted as Corps Commander, Peshawar.Earlier, he was Commander of Karachi Corps where he had…

New York, Sep 16 (IANS) With less than a week to go before the US Federal Reserve announces its next interest rate decision, Wall Street has reviewed a bevy of economic indicators released this week, according to a media report.That data indicates that the Federal Reserve is still likely to hold rates steady next week, some investors say. But they add that there are pockets of strength in the economy that suggest markets don’t have the all-clear, CNN reported.While inflation is much lower than it was last year, it remains far above the Fed’s 2 per cent target, which Chair Jerome…