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Houston, Sep 6 (IANS) The Texas Senate has started an impeachment trial of suspended state Attorney General Ken Paxton over years-long charges including corruption, lawbreaking and power abusing.Lawyers representing the state House impeachment team have released 4,000 pages of evidence that they plan to present at the trial against the 60-year-old Republican.The Senate has agreed to consider 16 of the original 20 articles of impeachment.Paxton, who has served as Texas AG since 2015, pleaded not guilty to all the articles on Tuesday. His attorneys have filed about a dozen of motions aimed to dismiss the articles or exclude evidence from…

Washington, Sep 6 (IANS) A dangerous heat wave is baking the eastern US, with several cities breaking records and the heat stretching from Minnesota to Texas to Massachusetts.According to local media, Minneapolis recorded 36 degrees Celsius and Atlantic City 34 degrees on Tuesday, reports Xinhua news agency.Meanwhile, temperatures could reach a scorching 37 degrees in Washington, D.C.; 31 in New York City; 36 in Raleigh, North Carolina; 33 in Minneapolis; 32 in Chicago; 37.7 in Oklahoma City; and 38 in Dallas and San Antonio. This week, 48 major cities are forecast to have dangerous levels of heat on one or…

New Delhi, Sep 6 (IANS) After almost several months of ban over national security reasons, a couple of Chinese games have returned to India in various formats and new avatars. While it may bolster the online gaming industry, it has raised serious concerns about impacting the mental and physical well-being of children and young adults in the country.South Korean video game developer Krafton’s Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI), the popular battle royale game that enthralled the country’s gaming community, relaunched in May albeit with a government rider where it would be closely monitored every quarter for additional factors, including user harm…

New Delhi, Sep 6 (IANS) As the Indian healthcare sector embraces robotics surgery in a big way, the availability of a variety of surgical robots from multiple vendors and an increasing number of trained doctors and commitment to investing in surgical robots by government and corporate hospitals are increasing its footprint across the country, says Dr Mahendra Bhandari, CEO of US-based Vattikuti Foundation and a robotic surgery evangelist.Nearly 20 years after Escorts Heart Institute (now known as Fortis Escorts Heart Institute), a Delhi-based hospital, ushered in a pathbreaking procedure that employed robotic assistance for complex heart surgery, robotic surgery has…

London, Sep 6 (IANS) The hyperactivity disorder, usually referred to as ADHD, is an independent risk factor for several common and serious mental health issues, according to a research.  Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental condition in children and teens that extends into adulthood in up to around two thirds of cases. Worldwide, its prevalence is estimated to be around 5 per cent in children/teenagers and 2.5 per cent in adults.ADHD has been linked to mood and anxiety disorders in observational studies, but it’s not known if it’s causally associated with other mental ill health.Researchers from the University of Augsburg in…

London, Sep 6 (IANS) Ahead of Rishi Sunak’s first official trip to India as Britain’s Prime Minister during the G20 summit this week, his relatives are planning a banquet in New Delhi to welcome the Indian-origin leader to his ancestral land.The Telegraph reported that the Sunak’s relatives will host a feast with flower bouquets and “non-stop dancing” to Punjabi music in New Delhi on Thursday or Friday. Sunak’s maternal uncle, Gautam Dev Sood, said all relatives have been asked to gather in New Delhi to mark the arrival of the Prime Minister, who is likely to be accompanied by his…

Seoul, Sep 6 (IANS) South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s approval rating has fallen to 34.1 per cent from a month ago, according to a survey published on Wednesday.According to the survey, jointly conducted jointly by Yonhap News Agency and Yonhap News TV, the positive assessment of Yoon’s performance was 34.1 per cent, a 3.9 percentage-point fall from the previous survey conducted a month ago, while the negative assessment gained 5.7 percentage points to 58 per cent.The survey identified defence and diplomacy as the most frequently cited factors in both positive and negative assessments of his performance.In terms of age…

Kive, Sep 6 (IANS) An overnight Russian drone strike has hit port facilities on the River Danube in Ukraine’s Izmail area, an official confirmed on Wednesday.Oleh Kiper, Governor of the surrounding Odesa region, said the attack led to the damage of port and agricultural infrastructure, reports the BBC.There has been no official comment from Russia on the drone strike.Earlier this week, the Izmail region, located from across the river from Romania, had come under another Russian drone attack.Although Ukraine claimed that Russian drones had landed on Romanian territory, the NATO member state denied it.Russia has been hitting Ukraine’s port facilities…

Washington, Sep 5 (IANS) US President Joe Biden’s visit to India for the upcoming G20 leaders’ summit is on and he will be leaving for New Delhi on Thursday.Biden has tested negative for Covid-19 after First Lady Jill Biden tested positive. He will take the usual precautions mandated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention because of possible exposure to the virus, wearing masks at public events. But his visit is on.–IANSyrj/vd

Singapore, Sep 5 (IANS) Parents have been asking for a review of guidelines on overseas excursions from a top school in Singapore after a 17-year-old Indian student died in June during one such trip to Cambodia.Kaira Karmakar, a student of United World College of South East Asia (UWCSEA) on Dover Road, died in a road accident on June 1 while she was on an unchaperoned school trip to Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh, The Straits Times reported.She was with a group of classmates, and there were no teachers or adult representatives accompanying them. The school declined to say how many students…