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New York, Sep 15 (IANS) Mumbai-born Kshama Sawant, a prominent Indian-origin Seattle council member, has called for an elected police accountability system after a recent bodycam video of a police officer mocking an Indian student’s death by a police patrol vehicle in January sparked massive outrage.The brief clip shows Seattle Police Officers’ Guild Vice President Daniel Auderer saying that 23-year-old Jaahnavi Kandula “had limited value” in a call with senior Mike Solan. Sawant has called for an elected police accountability system after the incident. “Working people need to demand an independent, public investigation into this outrage,” she said in a…

Dhaka, Sep 15 (IANS) A Bangladesh court has jailed two prominent human rights activists for two years each over their “distorted report and doctored images” on security force killings published in 2013, the media reported on Friday.According to the local Daily Star newspaper, Adilur Rahman Khan and Nasiruddin Elan from the rights group Odhikar were sentence by a Dhaka court on Thursdayin the case lodged under the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Act.The court alsocancelled their bail and ordered them to be sent to jail with conviction warrants. Khan and Elan, who were present in the court during the hearing,…

Washington, Sep 15 (IANS) Members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) on Friday began a simultanous strike action at all the ‘Big Three’ US motor industry giants — General Motors (GM), Ford and Stellantis, effectively halting work at the plants after the companies failed to reach tentative labour deals with the workers.“Tonight for the first time in our history we will strike all three of the big three at once,” the BBC quoted the labour union’s president Shawn Fain as saying in a Facebook live transmission late Thursday night. The strike started at Friday midnightat GM’s Wentzville mid-size truck plant,…

Sydney, Sep 15 (IANS) Police in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) on Friday said that a woman died in hospital after she was tasered and shot with a bean bag round during a standoff with officers. In a statement, the NSW Police Force said that at around 12.30 p.m.on Thursday, officers were called to a unit complex on Mitchell Street in Stockton, following reports of a woman threatening people with an axe, reports Xinhua news agency.Police were able to gain entry to the property at about 9.45 p.m.and the 47-year-old woman was taken into custody after a…

New York, Sep 15 (IANS) A red sweater featuring a black sheep among rows of white ones worn by the late Princess Diana has fetched more than $1.1 million at an auction in Sotheby’s, New York.In a tweet on Thursday, the auction house said: “Frenzied bidding pushed Princess Diana’s historic black sheep Warm & Wonderful sweater to sell at $1.1 million today in our inaugural Fashion Icons auction.”According to Sotheby’s, Diana wore the sweater in 1981 to a polo match of Prince Charles. Also that year, a letter from the Buckingham Palace to Warm and Wonderful — a British luxury…

Sao Paulo, Sep 14 (IANS) Ageing is known to increase the production of an immune protein that may harmfully react with a person’s own tissues or organs. But researchers have now found that Covid-19 infection can exacerbate their production, explaining why old age raises the odds of developing severe Covid. Increases in the immune protein, known as auto-antibodies, may also lead to blood clotting disorders such as thrombosis, showed the study, published in the journal npj Aging. “These findings open the door to a better understanding of many pathological events associated with Covid-19, ranging from memory loss to sudden death from…

New Delhi, Sep 14 (IANS) The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Thursday said around 10,000 people are expected to take the pledge to donate organs on September 16.Minister for Health and Family Welfare Mansukh Mandaviya will lead the pledge for organ donation at the GIC Ground in UP’s Agra, as per the communique issued by the Ministry.Mandaviya had earlier said that the Narendra Modi-led government was committed to bring in more policies and reforms to popularise organ donation, adding the noble act of organ donation can save or transform the life of many people.The Ministry also informed that…

New Delhi, Sep 14 (IANS) A novel combination of drugs has shown to be a breakthrough in liver cancer treatment with a significant number of patients showing promising results in terms of overall and disease free survival, and even complete resolution of tumour in certain cases when detected early and with timely treatment, say Indian researchers.The drug combination Immunotherapy Atezolizumab-Bevacizumab uses the immune system of the body and kills the cancer cells, said doctors at the Asian Institute of Gastroenterology (AIG), Hyderabad.Their study, published in the Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology, showed that the combination is safe and effective…

Gurugram, Sep 14 (IANS) A 17-year-old has been given a new lease of life after doctors here successfully operated and removed 1.9 kg tumour from his chest cavity.The patient consulted doctors at Fortis Memorial Research Institute (FMRI) for a typical neck and chest pain and fever. After undergoing a series of comprehensive medical tests, the doctors diagnosed his condition to be a rare form of tumour — Thymolipoma (a condition in which the thymus gland grows in size and covers extensive portions of the chest and lungs).“Thymolipomas are rare tumours composed of fatty tissue and thymic tissues. Thymolipomas, although benign…

Seoul, Sep 14 (IANS) North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s special train appears to be moving toward Russia’s Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk on Thursday, a day after his rare summit with President Vladimir Putin, sources said.According to the sources, Kim’s olive green, bulletproof train appears headed toward the Russian city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur, where he will visit an aircraft factory, following his meeting with Putin held on Wednesday at the Vostochny spaceport where he pledged full support for Russia, reports Yonhap News Agency.Putin earlier told a Russian media outlet that Kim will fly to Komsomolsk-on-Amur to visit an aircraft plant and…