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Dhaka, Aug 15 (IANS) Amid an ongoing dengue outbreak, Bangladesh registered the second-highest number of fatalities on a single day since January this year, taking the overall death toll to 416, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said.In the last 24 hours, 18 new deaths were reported, reported Xinhua news agency.The total number of dengue fever cases has reached 87,891 since the beginning of this year.Amid the rising dengue cases, hospitals and clinics in the capital Dhaka are crammed with dengue patients.Farhana Ahmed, who is in charge of dengue cell at Bangladesh Children’s Hospital and Institute, told Xinhua that…

Honolulu, Aug 15 (IANS) The death toll from the devastating wildfires in the US state of Hawaii’s Maui Island has increased to 99, authorities said on Tuesday.Addressing reporters, Maui Police Chief John Pelletier said that “there are 99 so far”, and about 25 per cent of the affected area has been searched, reports Xinhua news agency.”The scale of destruction is incredible,” said Hawaii Governor Josh Green.More than 2,200 structures have been destroyed by the blaze, with roughly 86 per cent of them being residential buildings, according to the governor.In an interview on Monday, the Governor warned that 10 to 20…

Mumbai, Aug 15 (IANS) Achieving a major feat, a 42-year-old executive Yogesh Patil, suffering from Autosomal Disorder successfully conquered the gruelling Ironman triathlon in Germany, recently.Working with Schneider Electrics (India), Patil cracked the tough challenge along with two others from Maharashtra — Nagesh Utekar of Mumbai and Sharda Kulkarni of Pune — organised as the European Challenge in Hamburg this year.The Ironman triathlon first became famous in India after Bollywood actor Milind Soman completed it in 2015, and till date barely an estimated 200 Indians have earned laurels for the country.Patil was formerly suffering from very high blood pressure in 2006-2007,…

Moscow, Aug 15 (IANS) Governor Oleg Kozhemyako on Tuesday declared a regional state of emergency in the Primorsky Territory located in the Russian Far East, due to the extensive damage caused by severe flooding.”A regional emergency regime is being introduced in Primorye. The damage from the disaster is such that the resources of the municipalities cannot cope with it,” Xinhua news agency quoted the Governor as saying in a social media post.”The regional emergency regime will allow to increase the measures of support for the population affected by the flooding,” he added.The flooding, triggered by heavy rains brought by typhoon…

Canberra, Aug 15 (IANS) Authorities have warned that Australia’s Northern Territory (NT) is facing its worst bushfire season in over a decade.Tony Fuller, the Bushfires NT chief fire control officer, recently said that a blaze currently burning near the central city of Alice Springs is only the start of a potentially devastating season, reports Xinhua news agency.He warned that up to 80 per cent of the NT is expected to burn by the time the fire season ends in March, with fuel loads at 50-year highs following years of high rainfall.”To give an indication of what we’re expecting, in 2011-12…

Wellington, Aug 15 (IANS) New Zealanders’ median weekly and hourly earnings from wages and salaries increased by 7.1 and 6.6 percent respectively, in the year to the June 2023 quarter, the statistics department said on Tuesday.Statz NZ said that median weekly earnings from wages and salaries grew by 7.1 per cent, or NZ$84 ($50) over the year, to reach NZ$1,273, reports Xinhua news agency.This was the second-largest annual rise since the series began in 1998, surpassed only by the previous year’s annual increase, the statistics department added.Median weekly earnings continued to grow strongly over the year, especially for women, whose…

New York, Aug 15 (IANS) Dogs can be a faster, more precise and less expensive method of detecting Covid-19 than even the best current technology around us, new research has revealed.The magic lies in their highly evolved noses, with physical and neural optimisations for smell. Dogs have hundreds of millions of olfactory receptors, compared to roughly five to six million for humans, and a full third of their brains are devoted to interpreting smells, compared to a scant 5 per cent in human brains.All these enhancements mean that dogs can detect very low concentrations of odours associated with Covid infections.A…

San Francisco, Aug 15 (IANS) Hackers exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the MOVEit file-transfer software to steal sensitive medical and health information data of millions of Americans, the US authorities have revealed.The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF) said it had fallen victim to the MOVEit mass hacks, exposing the data of more than 4 million patients.The department said in a statement that data was compromised because IT major IBM “uses the MOVEit application to move HCPF data files in the normal course of business.”“IBM, a third-party vendor contracted with HCPF, uses the MOVEit application to move…

New Delhi, August 15 (IANS) China has stopped releasing youth unemployment figures, which were seen by some as a key indication of the country’s slowdown.The decision is due to changes in the world’s second largest economy and its society, a government spokesman said.In June, China’s jobless rate for 16 to 24 year olds in urban areashit a record high of more than 20 per cent.The country’s central bank also cut the cost of borrowing on Tuesday in an attempt to help boost growth.Official figures published on Tuesday showed China’s overall unemployment rate had risen to 5.3 per cent in July.At…

New Delhi, Aug 15 (IANS) Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founder of Bangladesh, was assassinated at his home in Dhanmondi 32 on August 15, 1975, following which military dictator Major General Ziaur Rahman assumed power. Incumbent Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Mujib’s eldest daughter, was in Germany then and hence she survived.Mujib was to visit Dhaka University and a grand ceremonious welcome awaited him. Even a ‘citation’ in Bangla was prepared.Addressing the Bangabandhu, as Mujib was popularly known, the citation read: “You’ve said you want to turn Dhaka University into the National University. We want your kind sympathy, goodwill and consideration in…