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New York, Aug 25 (IANS) A 29-year-old Sikh man has been arrested and charged with murder after he allegedly shot at and killed his girlfriend at a parking garage in California. Simranjit Singh was arrested last week after police suspected him of killing his 34-year-old girlfriend at Galleria mall’s five-story parking garage in Roseville city.”Singh appeared in the court on Wednesday and the Public Defender’s Office was appointed to represent the defendant,” the Placer County District Attorney’s Office, which filed the charges against Singh, said, adding that the defendant did not enter a plea.The couple had arrived together at the mall,…

Beijing, Aug 25 (IANS) China’s Ministry of Water Resources on Friday activated a level-IV emergency response to flooding in 13 provincial-level regions.The regions are Jiangsu, Anhui, Shandong, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Tibet, Shaanxi and Gansu, Xinhua news agency quoted the Ministry as sayingFrom Friday to Sunday, heavy rain will sharply increase water levels in rivers including parts of the Yangtze and Huaihe river,s the Ministry said, adding that some small and medium-sized rivers in affected areas may see floods exceeding warning levels.It urged relevant water conservancy departments to closely monitor rain situations and strengthen early warning, with…

Sao Paulo, Aug 25 (IANS) Survivors of severe Covid-19 infections may have high risk to blood vessel systems in our body in response to mental stress, according to a research. Although many patients recover completely from the disease, previous studies noted cardiovascular condition in patients that survived severe Covid-19 infections.The new research showed that this population presents increased risk factors for cardiovascular complications, such as excessive muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA), which has the acceleration of the heartbeat as one of its duties, in addition to other problems, such as greater stiffness in the main artery of the human body…

New Delhi, August 25 (IANS) The Centre on Friday refuted China’s claim that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the BRICS summit in Johannesburg happened at New Delhi’s request, saying that there was a “pending request from China’s side for a bilateral meeting”.A pending request for a bilateral meeting was there from the Chinese side, government sources said.They further added that both the leaders, however, had an “informal conversation” at the Leaders Lounge during the BRICS Summit at Johannesburg.A Chinese foreign ministry press statement issued earlier in the day said, “President Xi Jinping talked with…

New Delhi, Aug 25 (IANS) India has registered 73 new Covid cases in the past 24 hours, taking the caseload to 4,49,96,859, the Union Health Ministry said on Friday.As per the Ministry’s data, the death toll rose to 5,31,927 as one more succumbed to the disease.Forty-eight people have been cured of the virus, pushing total number of recoveries to 4,44,63,424.The recovery rate stands at 98.91 per cent and active caseload at 1,508.According to the Ministry data, over 220.67 crore doses of Covid-19 vaccine have been administered so far.–IANS std/svn

New Delhi, Aug 25 (IANS) Certain gut problems, such as constipation, difficulty swallowing and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), may be early warning signs of the neurological condition Parkinson’s disease, new observational research has warned.Gastrointestinal symptoms are thought to precede the development of cerebrovascular disease, such as stroke or a brain aneurysm, or Alzheimer’s disease, and it has been suggested (Braak’s hypothesis) that gut conditions may precede the development of Parkinson’s disease too.To test this hypothesis, the researchers used data from a US nationwide medical record network to compare 24,624 people who had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease of unknown cause…

New Delhi, Aug 25 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), India is organising a one-day open house consultation on health insurance of persons with disabilities in Mumbai on Friday.The event is being held in collaboration with the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) and National Centre for Promotion of Employment of Persons with Disabilities, Mumbai.An NHRC official said: “The expenditure on health of Indians has increased in recent years. For persons with disabilities, it is even higher because there is an additional cost associated for living with a disability. The objective of the conference is to understand…

Sydney, Aug 25 (IANS) Authorities in Australia’s New South Wales (NSW) state on Friday ordered the closure of beaches in Port Macquarie town after a man was hospitalised due to serious injuries to his leg and foot following a shark attack earlier in the day.Surf Life Saving NSW said in a statement that at around 10 a.m. on Friday, the man in his 40s was attacked by the shark in waters off Port Macquarie located in the state’s mid-north coast, reports Xinhua news agency.According to the statement, beaches in the area would remain closed until further notice, with signs erected…

Shimla, Aug 25 (IANS) In another daring rescue operation, the 14th Battalion of the NDRF rescued 51 people who got struck after a cloudburst in two villages in Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi district, officials said on Friday.As information received from the Sub-divisional Magistrate of Balichowki that villagers were trapped after a cloudburst in the Kholanal gram panchayat near the Hanogi temple, the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) team responded and left towards the incident site from Kullu.Due to the landslide the road was blocked at many places and the NDRF team moved on foot from Hanogi to the disaster spot.The team…

New York, Aug 25 (IANS) Conservative pundit and author Ann Coulter has been slammed for making racist comments targeting Indian-American presidential aspirants Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy, calling their clash during the Republican primary debate a “Hindu business”. “Nikki and Vivek are involved in some Hindu business, it seems. Not our fight,” Coulter wrote on X, formerly Twitter, a day after Haley and Ramaswamy sparred over foreign policy and US aid to Ukraine and Israel. Responding to Coulter’s tweet, Ramaswamy’s senior adviser and communications director, Tricia McLaughlin, told NBC News: “Ann can tweet whatever she wants to. Vivek shares and…