Author: News Desk

New Delhi, Sep 21 (IANS) Elon Musk, the owner of X (formerly Twitter), on Thursday said that the long-form posts on the microblogging platform are receiving three billion views daily and growing.”Long-form posts on this platform are now at 3 billion views per day and rising,” Musk posted on X.He further compared the growth with all the newspaper article views available on Earth, saying, “This is roughly on par with all newspaper article views on Earth”.Several users expressed their thoughts on this new development.”Impressive growth! It’s evident that users are seeking more in-depth content and meaningful insights on this platform,”…

San Francisco, Sep 21 (IANS) A family in the US has sued Google after a man belonging to the family died after driving his car off a collapsed bridge following directions from Google Maps.In September last year, Philip Paxson drowned after his vehicle plunged off a bridge in Hickory, North Carolina that collapsed in 2013, reports USA Today.In a lawsuit filed against Google’s parent company Alphabet this week, Paxson’s wife Alicia alleged that “Google Maps directed him to cross the Snow Creek Bridge” as he drove through an “unfamiliar neighbourhood heading home from his daughter’s ninth birthday party”.The Navy veteran’s…

New York, Sep 21 (IANS) Morning and afternoon physical activity are better associated with a lower risk of developing Type-2 diabetes, according to a new study, led by researchers including one Indian-origin.The new research, published in the journal Diabetologia, found no statistically significant association between evening physical activity and risk of Type 2 diabetes.Physical activity is a preventive factor for Type 2 diabetes, but its timing and consistency (in contrast with overall sum of physical activity) has been relatively unexplored.Researchers from Harvard University in the US analysed the relationship between morning, afternoon, or evening physical activity and consistency (routine) and…

Sydney, Sep 21 (IANS) More than 2 billion people are exposed to at least one day of potentially health-impacting environmental hazard annually — a figure that has increased by 6.8 per cent in the last 10 years, according to alarming results from the study of two decades of global smoke pollution.The study, published in the journal Nature, highlights the severity and scale of the landscape fire-sourced air pollution, its increased impact on the world’s population and associated rise in public health risk.Exposure to fire-sourced air pollution has many adverse health impacts, including increased mortality and morbidity and a global worsening…

Rajkot, Sep 21 (IANS) Heart attacks have claimed the lives of three individuals, all under the age of 45 in Gujarat’s Rajkot.Among the victims was Kishan Dhabalia, a 26-year-old cashier employed at HDFC Bank.Kishan was abruptly struck by severe chest pain and rushed to the Rajkot Civil Hospital where he met with cardiac arrest. Kishan was the sole earning member of his family.All three heart attack took place on Wednesday.Rajendrasinh Vala, a 40-year-old father of two young girls and an employee at a private firm, complained of severe chest pain and was rushed to a private clinic. Vala’s condition deteriorated…

New York, Sep 21 (IANS) Amid rising new cases and a possible winter surge of Covid-19, the US is looking to restart its free at-home Covid-19 test kit programme from September 25, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has said. The HHS on Wednesday also announced an investment of $600 million across 12 domestic Covid test manufacturers.The investments will strengthen the nation’s capacity to manufacture tests, and secure approximately 200 million new over-the-counter Covid tests for future federal government use, the HHS said.As earlier, the test kits can be ordered via the website for the programme — covidtests.gov…

Sydney, Sep 21 (IANS) Two people were wounded in shooting in a public place in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW), police said on Thursday.After receiving reports of shooting at about 2:20 a.m. local time (0420 GMT) on Thursday, emergency services were called to Cassia Crescent in Gateshead, Xinhua news agency reported.The wounded, identified a 42-year-old man and a 32-year-old woman, were rushed to hospital, the police said.The authority urged members of the public to provide any information or video footage related to the shooting.In September this year, the NSW Police Force has responded to at least three…

Dhaka, Sep 21 (IANS) Bangladesh has registered 21 dengue fatalities, highest in a single day this year, the Health Ministry said.Bangladesh reported 3,015 new dengue cases and 21 new deaths on Wednesday, taking the tally to 176,810 and the death toll to over 850 so far this year, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) under the Ministry of Health said.On Septenber 2, the DGHS reported the highest daily death toll with 21 fatalities, Xinhua news agency reported.According to DGHS data, 53,002 dengue cases were recorded so far in September, after 71,976 in August and 43,854 in July. The total…

Washington, Sep 21 (IANS) The water regulator of the US state of California has said that the beverage corporate giant Nestle had illegally diverted and bottled water from mountain springs for over 100 years, the media reported.The bottled water is sold under Arrowhead, a household brand whose label reads “Since 1894.”Nestle sold the bottled water business in 2021 and Nestle Waters North America began operating under the new name BlueTriton Brands later, Xinhua news agency reported.California State Water Resources Control Board ordered the company to stop drawing water for bottling from most of its water-collection sites in the San Bernardino…

Official sources said that a team of police had searched the residence of Dy. SP, Sheikh Aadil Mushtaq in Srinagar two days back.”To evade arrest he had jumped out of the house. During searches of a laptop, some incriminating documents, electronic devices etc were recovered from his residence.”An FIR was lodged against the officer in Nowgam police station and he has been arrested today”, the sources said.A SIT formed under SP south will investigate the case keeping in view its possible serious ramifications, they added.–IANSsq/shb