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Vadodara, Aug 24 (IANS) The medical fraternity at Sir Sayajirao General (SSG) Hospital o Thursday called for a strike following an attack on three doctors in the emergency treatment.Unidentified assailants assaulted the medical professionals on duty, prompting a collective response from the doctors.According to a member of the junior doctors association, the attackers, apparently inebriated, arrived at the hospital premises around 2 p.m. in a rickshaw.A minor dispute escalated into a confrontation with the doctors, culminating in a physical assault. After the attack, the assailants fled the scene in the same rickshaw they arrived in. The event took place in…

Washington, Aug 24 (IANS) Former US President Donald Trump nearly stole the limelight from last night’s RNC-sponsored live FOX TV presidential debate, first in the series in the run-up to the GOP primaries, shocking the nation by calling prosecuting Democrats “savage animals and sick…”, even as eight contestants grappled with each other debating abortion, Ukraine, spending as their focal points in the “elephant’s absence”. Trump literally did some counter programming with his well laid out plan, under the advice of his wise legal counsel to skip the debate, by releasing a pre-taped 46-minute interview with recently-fired Fox host Tucker Carlson. It…

New Delhi, Aug 24 (IANS) With the BRICS grouping deciding to include six new nations under its fold from January next year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that it gives a message to all such fora to transform with changing times. Speaking at the BRICS summit, Modi said he was confident that “we would be able to give new dynamism to BRICS by working with new member countries of the grouping”.He said that India has historic ties with all the six new members of BRICS, namely Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.Modi further said…

Seoul, Aug 24 (IANS) Samsung Electronics said on Thursday it will unveil a new, integrated food platform, which provides consumers with personalised cooking experiences, at IFA 2023 next month.The platform, Samsung said, is designed to make meal preparations easier and faster by offering about 160,000 recipes, tips for a healthy diet, what users can cook with the food ingredients they already have in their fridge and personalized food recommendations, among others.The South Korean tech giant said the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Samsung Food combines and upgrades its food-related applications and functions, already embedded in Samsung kitchen gadgets, reports Yonhap news agency.”We…

New Delhi, Aug 24 (IANS) In a medical miracle, doctors here helped a 39-year-old woman with cervical cancer to give birth to a healthy baby girl, while also treating her cancer, which presently is in remission.Marina Ch Ralte, 39, resident of Mizoram, was 16 weeks pregnant when she was diagnosed with a 7-cm long tumour in the uterine cervix.Ensuring the safety and well-being of both the mother and the unborn child, doctors at Apollo Cancer Centre (ACC), Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, carefully administered a total of 7 cycles of chemotherapy to Marina.Throughout the chemotherapy process, the team conducted regular…

New Delhi, Aug 24 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping could be seen having a brief interaction on the sidelines of BRICS summit in Johannesburg on Thursday.As per a video footage of the conference, both the leaders could be seen engaging in a conversation while moving towards their designated seats.Last year during the G20 Bali summit also, both Modi and Xi had exchanged pleasantries. However, last month the external affairs ministry had confirmed that both the leaders had not only exchanged courtesies at the G20 summit in Bali last November, but had also spoken on the…

Moscow, Aug 24 (IANS) Wagner mercenary group’s chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who stage a failed mutiny against Russia’s military leaders, died in a plane crash in Tver region in Moscow, and a probe has been initiated into the incident, Federal Agency for Air Transport said.The incident occurred on Wednesday evening when the aircraft, owned by Prigozhin, was flying from Moscow to St Petersburg with seven passengers and three crew, BBC reported.All ten bodies have been recovered and a criminal investigation has been launched.The ill-fated aircraft Embraer Legacy caught fire on hitting the ground and was reportedly in the air for less…

Seoul, Aug 24 (IANS) Sixteen university students, who attempted to break into the Japanese Embassy in central Seoul on Thursday in protest of Japan’s discharge of radioactive water from its crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean, were apprehanded.Despite concerns from neighboring countries and fishing groups in the region.Tokyo Electric Power Co., the operator of the tsunami-wrecked nuclear power plant, began releasing the first batch of treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean at around 1 p.m. Yonhap news agency reported.According to the police, the students attempted to enter the Japanese Embassy at around 1 p.m., while chanting slogans against…

Islamabad, Aug 24 (IANS) After Battagram chairlift incident, in which at least eight people, including kids, were stranded for over 12 hours in mid-air in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the government has decided to take action and shut down all such makeshift chairlifts across the province. Reliable sources in the KP government confirm that the decision to shut down all makeshift chairlifts has been taken with directives for all owners of such lifts to get a No Objection Certificate (NOC) from the provincial government before operating them.The decision comes after a makeshift chairlift in Pushto area of Battagram, used for daily…

New Delhi, Aug 24 (IANS) The domestic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems market will continue to grow at a compound annual growth rate of over 13 per cent to reach $950 million by 2030, according to a report on Thursday.Being home to the largest population in the world, India has an alarmingly increasing rise in chronic and lifestyle diseases. With an increasing emphasis on medical diagnosis before treatments and a growing demand for advanced imaging tools, the need for MRI systems has emerged as an indispensable tool in the field of diagnostics.The report by GlobalData, a leading data and analytics…