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Houston, Aug 14 (IANS) Some 100 firefighters responded to a massive blaze in the US city of Houston, which covered the area in thick plumes of smoke, authorities said.According to the Houston Fire Department, the blaze was reported on Sunday afternoon at the Living Earth landscaping facility, the city-based ABC13 News reported.In a tweet early Monday morning, the Department said that fire crews were “currently on scene at 5802 Crawford performing extinguishment efforts after receiving reports of a large pile mulch on fire”.It added that there were no reports of any casualties or injuried.The Department also urged the general public…

Seoul, Aug 14 (IANS) North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has berated local officials as being “irresponsible” and “insensitive” over their failure to prevent damage from typhoon Khanun that recently swept through the Korean Peninsula, state media said on Monday.Kim made the remarks during a visit to Anbyon county, Kangwon province, where river banks were toppled and some 200 hectares of farmland were flooded due to heavy rains brought by last week’s typhoon, according to the North’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).Khanun plowed through South Korea for 16 hours on August 17 and dissipated after reaching the vicinity of Pyongyang…

Beijing, Aug 14 (IANS) The death toll in a rain-triggered rock and mudslide in the suburbs of Xian, the capital of northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, has risen to 21, with six others still missing, rescuers have said. According to the Xian municipal emergency management department, the torrential rainfall on Friday caused the mudslide accident in a village on the outskirts of Chang’an District.Currently, 14 rescue forces comprising more than 980 people are continuing the search and rescue. They have brought equipment, such as life detectors, satellite phones, and excavators, Xinhua news agency reported.They said on Sunday that the rock and…

New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) Minister for Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) Mansukh Mandaviya on Sunday hit back at the Congress over its remarks that the BJP government has made country’s health system ‘sick’.The Minister accused the grand old party of misleading the country.Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge had attacked the government over reported shortage of doctors and staffs at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and the recent CAG report on Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY).The Congress President had said that the “loot and jumlas (rhetoric)” of Prime Minister Narendra Modi made the country ‘unhealthy’.In response…

Tallahassee, Aug 13 (IANS) A Florida-bound American Airlines flight dropped 15,000 feet in three minutes due to possible pressurisation issue, which left passengers “terrified”, media reports said.The flight was en route Gainesville from Charlotte, North Carolina in the US when the crew reported a possible pressurisation issue, Fox 35 News quoted Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) spokesperson as saying.University of Florida professor Harrison Hove, who was onboard the plane, took to the social media to share harrowing experience.Sharing photos on X, he said: “I’ve flown a lot. This was scary.”In the photos oxygen masks are seen hanging in the plane with…

New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) Minister for Health and Family Welfare Mansukh Mandaviya on Sunday asked people to pledge to be an organ donor on the occasion of World Organ Donation Day.”On World Organ Donation Day, let us pledge to be an organ donor,” Mandaviya wrote on X.The noble act of organ donation can save or transform the life of many people, he added.Earlier this month, the Minister said the Central government has taken several steps for increasing organ donations in the country.He had said that the government is committed to bring in more policies and reforms to popularise organ…

Chennai, Aug 13 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Education Minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi who was admitted to Narayana Hridayala in Bengaluru is stable as per hospital authorities.The minister had complained of chest pain while traveling from Salem to Krishnagiri on Saturday.He was initially admitted to a hospital in Krishnagiri however the minister was later taken to Narayana Hridayalaya in Bengaluru and is planning to undergo a coronary angiogram.The hospital in a bulletin said that the condition of the minister is stable.–IANSaal/dan

Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 13 (IANS) A temporary nurse was suspended at Angamalai government hospital after she allegedly administered a rabies vaccine to a girl patient who was under treatment of fever.Parents of the seven year-old girl said that the nurse administered the injection without checking her prescription.The incident took place on August 11. The State Health Minister Veena George had ordered a probe and following investigation the nurse was terminated from service.Anjali, mother of the child, told the media that she would not press for a police probe as the doctors have informed her that the child will not have any…

New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) Having a bad hair day? Blame your genes, according to the first gene mapping study on human scalp hair whorls.The study, published in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, showed that hair whorl direction has a genetic basis, but also that it is affected by multiple genes.Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China identified four associated genetic variants that are likely to influence hair whorl direction.A hair whorl is a patch of hair growing in a circular pattern around a point specified by hair follicle orientations. As an easily observed human trait, scalp hair…

New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) The Congress on Sunday slammed the BJP government over various issues relating to the health sector, including, the recent CAG report on Ayushman Bharat – Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY), saying the ruling dispensation has made the country’s health system “sick”.”Loot and jumlas (rhetoric) made the country unhealthy. There are only lies in every word of (Narendra )Modi ji. He claimed to have made many AIIMS (All India Institute of Medical Sciences), but the truth is that our AIIMS is facing severe shortage of doctors and staff,” Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge wrote on X.Kharge…