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Madrid, Sep 4 (IANS) Authorities in Madrid have asked residents to stay indoors as the Spanish capital is bracing for torrential rain due to storm Dana.The state meteorological agency, AEMET, issued a warning for Madrid, Toledo and Cadiz, where Dana is expected to bring strong rain, reports CNN.According to AEMET, up to 120 liters per square meter of rain could fall over the capital city in 12 hours.Madrid’s mayor Jose Luis Martínez-Almeida advised residents to stay in their houses, calling what was to come an “exceptional situation”.“Due to the exceptional and abnormal situation, in which rainfall records will be broken,…

Washington, Sep 4 (IANS) Asserting that any Republican is better than US President Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris, Indian-American Nikki Haley has said that the Republican nominee for the 2024 presidential elections is going to be her.Fresh out of the first Republican primary debate late last month, Haley told CBS News that she doesn’t think that the party front-runner and former boss Donald Trump is going to be the presidential nominee. “I don’t think President Trump’s going to be the nominee. I think it’s going to be me. But I will tell you that any Republican is…

New Delhi, Sep 3 (IANS) Newly detected BA.2.86 Covid sub-variant may be less transmissible than XBB and EG strains, which had earlier sparked significant infections across the globe, experts contended on Sunday.A.2.86, which descended from a Omicron variant, has so far been linked with 29 cases of Covid across four continents. The variant has been detected from both human and wastewater specimens.New experimental data by Chinese scientists, not yet published or peer-reviewed, showed that BA.2.86 is so different from previous versions of the virus that it easily escapes antibodies produced in response to earlier infections — even more than EG.5…

Lucknow, Sep 3 (IANS) The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has paved the way for the rejuvenation of Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences in the capital Lucknow.The proposal to construct a kidney, liver, and bone marrow transplantation centre on the institute’s main medical building’s sixth and seventh floors has been approved.This request was submitted to the state government in January this year, and now, it has received both financial and administrative clearance.A total budget of Rs 18.22 crore has been allocated for this project, while the Yogi government has authorised the release of the first instalment…

Prayagraj (UP), Sep 3 (IANS) Research by a team of scientists from various countries, including an alumnus of Allahabad University (AU), has found a compound derived from tobacco leaves that might possess the potential to combat multiple forms of cancer.The findings offer a striking contrast because tobacco usage, according to WHO, is accountable for a quarter of all cancer related fatalities worldwide and remains the primary cause of lung cancer.The remarkable discovery by AU alumnus Amit Dubey, along with Indian scientist Aisha Tufail and Malaysian researchers Miah Roney and Prof A K M Moyeenul Huq, has been published in the…

Canberra, Sep 3 (IANS) Employers, who deliberately underpay workers, will face jail time and heavy fines under new laws proposed by the Australian government.Minister for Workplace Relations Tony Burke told Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) on Sunday that he will introduce legislation for the industrial relations changes to Parliament on Monday, Xinhua news agency reported.Under the proposed laws, the maximum criminal penalty for employers who are found to have intentionally engaged in wage theft will be increased to a 10-year imprisonment and fines worth up to 7.8 million Australian dollars ($5.03 million), or three times the amount that was underpaid if…

New Delhi, Sep 3 (IANS) As India gears up to host the concluding leg of the annual G20 summit in the national capital on September 9-10, it will mark the end of its year as president. India, this year, promotes a universal sense of oneness and a shared global future for all under the theme ‘One Earth, One Family, One Future’.Founded in 1999 following the Asian financial crisis, the G20 was a forum for finance ministers and governors of central banks to come together and discuss global economic and financial issues.The Asian financial crisis began in 1997 in Thailand and…

Seoul, Sep 3 (IANS) A day after the North fired cruise missiles following major joint exercise between South Korea and the US, North Korea has conducted a drill for a “simulated tactical nuclear attack.” As per North’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), “A firing drill for simulated tactical nuclear attack was conducted at dawn of September 2 to warn the enemies of the actual nuclear war danger.””Two long-range strategic cruise missiles tipped with mock nuclear warheads were fired,” Yonhap news agency reported quoting the KCNA.On Saturday, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the North fired several cruise missiles…

London, Sep 3 (IANS) Eating right and healthy in your early years can help boost health in old age, suggests a study conducted in yeast.  Yeast are good model organisms for studying ageing as they share many of the same cellular machinery as animals and humans.According to researchers at the Babraham Institute in UK, healthy ageing is achievable through dietary change without restriction by potentially optimising diet, and that ill-health is not an inevitable part of the ageing process.Scientists have long known that caloric restriction — intentionally consuming far less calories than normal without becoming malnourished — improves health in…

London, Sep 3 (IANS) Love to mindlessly pop multivitamin pills, without any proven deficiency? Beware, you may be at an increased risk of cancer, warns a study.  The study led by a team from the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden showed that Vitamin C and other antioxidants stimulate the formation of new blood vessels in lung cancer tumours.The discovery, published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation, corroborates the idea that dietary supplements containing antioxidants can accelerate tumour growth and metastasis. However, the risk is only when taken in excess amounts.“We’ve found that antioxidants activate a mechanism that causes cancer tumours to…