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New York, Aug 28 (IANS) The ‘mysterious’ death of Wagner mercenary group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who died in an air crash over Russia, has raised questions on  whether it was an accident or an act of vengeance by the Russian militia for his failed mutiny against President Vladimir Putin during the Ukraine war.Prigozhin was confirmed dead after DNA swabs of the bodies from last week’s plane crash were matched, Russian officials said on Sunday.The officials said “the identities of all 10 dead correspond to the list stated in the flight sheet” of the aircraft. It went down north of Moscow…

New Delhi, Aug 28 (IANS) Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Mansukh Mandaviya on Monday lauded a team of doctors from Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) who saved the life of a two-year-old girl on board a flight.The Minister also prayed for the speedy recovery of the child.”Kudos to the team of doctors from AIIMS Delhi for their heroic life-saving efforts on a flight and for saving a precious life. Your inspiring act has shown why doctors are called second to God on earth,” Mandaviya wrote on X (formerly twitter).The minister added, “Praying for the good…

New Delhi, Aug 28 (IANS) About 60 per cent of Indians believed that the homegrown online skill gaming sector can give people a chance to create for the world and could stem the brain drain to overseas tech jobs, according to a study on Monday.This comes as during the academic year 2021-22, over 200,000 Indian students pursued higher education in the US, while the Indian IT sector faced a persistent 25.2 per cent attrition rate in 2021. The continuing trend of talent exodus forecasts the potential departure of 2 to 2.2 million IT-BPM professionals by 2025.Amidst this scenario of talent…

Taipei, Aug 28 (IANS) iPhone maker Foxconn’s founder Terry Gou on Monday announced an independent bid for the Taiwan presidential election in January 2024.The 72-year-old tech billionaire is now the fourth candidate for the top position, reports Nikkei Asia.He is pitted against Vice President Lai Ching-te of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), Taiwan People’s Party Chairman Ko Wen-je, and New Taipei Mayor Hou Yu-ih of the China-friendly Kuomintang (KMT).Gou said at a press conference he will “make Taiwan overtake Singapore within 20 years” and have the highest GDP per capita in Asia.”If Singapore can do it, so can Taiwan.…

Singapore, Aug 28 (IANS) A Chinese national in Singapore was sentenced to six weeks in jail on Monday for pushing a 56-year-old Indian-origin security officer, causing him to fall and fracture his wrist last year.Wang Lin, 42, a director at more than 100 firms, pleaded guilty to voluntarily causing grievous hurt to Prakash Govindan Damodaran at a taxi stand outside the Thomson Road shopping mall on November 6, 2021, The Straits Times reported.The court was told that Wang, who was driving a BMW X5, had gone to the shopping mall at around 11.45 a.m. to pick up his wife and…

Dhaka, Aug 28 (IANS) Bangladesh is preparing to start safe and voluntary repatriation of Rohingya refugees to their homeland Myanmar later this year, initially with around 1,000 people, a senior government official said here.”As part of confidence-building measures, a Bangladesh delegation is set to visit Myanmar next month while a team from Myanmar will be here soon to talk to the refugees,” Xinhua news agency quoted Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen tas saying to reporters.”We’ve prepared a list of over 3,000 Rohingya from whom we expect to send back 1,000 to Myanmar initially in or around December,” he said.He said…

Bangkok, Aug 28 (IANS) Thailand’s employment growth slowed in the second quarter of this year as droughts affected farming despite improvements in the vital tourism sector with an inflow of foreign visitors, official data showed on Monday.The Southeast Asian country’s labour force amounted to 39.7 million individuals in the April-June period, representing a 1.7-per cent year-on-year increase, a slowdown from an expansion of 2.4 per cent in the previous three months, according to the National Economic and Social Development Council (NESDC).The growth was mainly due to an expansion of the non-agricultural sector, with employment in hotels and restaurants jumping 11.7…

Islamabad, Aug 28 (IANS) A court in Pakistan has dismissed an FIR stating murder abetment charges against former Prime Minister Imran Khan, his lawyer confirmed on Monday,In June, Khan was charged with abetting the murder of Supreme Court lawyer Abdul Razzaq, who was killed in a drive-by shooting in Quetta that month, reports The Express Tribune.Razzaq’s son had accused the former premier of being behind his father’s murder.In a tweet, Khan’s lawyer Naeem Haider Panjutha said: “The court has dismissed the FIR registered against Imran Khan registered in Bijli Road police station in Quetta… Once again Imran Khan has emerged…

London, Aug 28 (IANS) UK researchers have developed a new way of identifying patients at risk of an irregular heartbeat, known as atrial fibrillation, that can raise odds of having a transient ischemic attack (TIA) or stroke by up to five times. The team from the University of East Anglia found four specific factors that can predict which patients will have atrial fibrillation.These include older age, higher diastolic blood pressure and problems with both the coordination and function of the upper left chamber of the heart.The team created an easy tool for doctors to use in practice to identify those…

New Delhi, Aug 28 (IANS) India has registered 70 new Covid cases in the past 24 hours, taking the caseload to 4,49,97,033, the Union Health Ministry said on Monday. According to the Ministry’s data, the death toll rose to 5,31,929 as one more succumbed to the disease. Also in the same period, 47 people recupercated from the disease, pushing total number of recoveries to 4,44,63,580. While the recovery rate stands at 98.91 per cent, the active caseload stood at 1,524. According to the Ministry data, over 220.67 crore doses of Covid-19 vaccine have been administered so far. –IANSstd/ksk