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Sydney, Oct. 12 (IANS) Organizers of the Australian Open (AO) have announced that a plethora of superstars are set to make their comeback to Melbourne Park at the start of 2024, including former champion Naomi Osaka.Following maternity leave, a trio of AO women’s singles champions – Osaka, Angelique Kerber, and Caroline Wozniacki – are planning triumphant returns to the court and might potentially upset the newly established order, according to a statement released by AO on Thursday.”We are delighted to welcome back these amazing women, Naomi, Angie, and Caroline, who’ve lit up the Australian Open and impressed fans with their…

New York, Oct 12 (IANS) In a medical breakthrough, a monkey has survived for more than two years with a kidney transplanted from a genetically engineered pig. The experiment, carried out by researchers at the US biotech company eGenesis and Harvard Medical School, may one day develop to be a potential solution to the global shortage of donors for patients with organ failure.“This is a major step forward for the field of transplantation,” said Tatsuo Kawai, Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. Writing in the journal Nature, the scientists explained how they carried out 69 genomic edits into the…

London, Oct 12 (IANS) UK doctors have launched a world-first trial to see whether gene therapy can provide hearing for children with severe to profound hearing loss due to a rare genetic condition.The trial by Cambridge University Hospitals includes up to 18 children from the UK, Spain and the US, born with hearing loss due to auditory neuropathy — a condition caused by the disruption of nerve impulses travelling from the inner ear to the brain.They will be followed up for five years to see the extent to which their hearing improves.Auditory neuropathy can be due to a variation in…

London, Oct 12 (IANS) A Swedish woman who lost her right hand in a farming accident was implanted with a novel human-machine interface into her residual bone, nerves, and muscles.Now, the bionic hand that was merged with her nervous and skeletal systems, remains functional after years of daily use.A multidisciplinary group of engineers and surgeons developed a human-machine interface that allows for the prosthesis to be comfortably attached to the user’s skeleton via osseointegration, while also enabling electrical connection with the nervous system via electrodes implanted in nerves and muscles.The research was led by professor Max Ortiz Catalan, head of…

The actress also said that this season will see Aarya in her most dangerous form of a lady don, before she went on to affirm that her titular character is, “the Michael Corleone of India”.Michael Corleone is one of the most legendary characters in the history of cinema.The character, played by Al Pacino, belongs to Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘The Godfather’ trilogy.Talking about how things look for Aarya in season 3, the actress and former Miss Universe told the media at the event: “Aarya has nothing to lose in season 3 and when that happens you become the most dangerous person”.The…

Addressing the media with Ramappa Lamani, a prominent BJP leader from north Karnataka who joined the Congress party in Bengaluru, Shivakumar stated that former chief minister Jagadish Shettar and former Deputy CM Laxman Savadi have brought a long list of leaders from southern and northern Karnataka regions who want to join the Congress.”I have the list but would not divulge the names,” he stated.”A team of BJP leaders is meeting the Congress legislators. I am updated about the development. However, I won’t divulge any details in this regard to the media,” Shivakumar maintained.The process of joining leaders from other parties…

SAD leader Daljit Singh Cheema told the media here that the AAP government seems to have forgotten all historic injustices meted out to Punjab by the Congress, be it giving away of half of its river water to Rajasthan in 1955 to further division of another half of the remaining water to Haryana, and the decision to create and inaugurate digging of the SYL in 1981 and 1982, respectively.“Instead of mentioning these injustices as well as telling Punjabis why it had failed to defend the state’s case in the Supreme Court, the AAP government has started a vilification campaign against…

Prof. Surinder S. Jodkha’s ‘The Indian Village: Rural Lives in the 21st Century’ (Aleph Books; Rs 799) sheds light on how the founding fathers of Independent India toiled hard to set the balance right, but ended up pushing very different agendas.Prof. Jodkha touches upon the issues of religion, the caste system and the evil of untouchability to make the reader understand how the idea of ‘village republics’ evolved post-Independence.The author has authoritatively delved in detail into the lives of peasants, the British view of Indian villages, how rural society and farming practices were reshaped post 1947.The real deal in the…

The trailer event began with a live performance of Kalaripayattu after which the actress and the former Miss Universe, Sushmita made a stunning entry sitting on her throne.Looking at the audience, she lowered her pitch and went on to say, “Kabhi kabhi baat sahi ya galat ki nahi, galat aur kam galat ki hoti hai. Panje nikaalne ka waqt aa gaya hai”, as the hall echoed with cheers and their anticipation for the trailer.The lights then dimmed to make way for the visuals on screen and the trailer began with Sushmita’s titular character of Aarya being shot in front of…

A team of ED sleuths, escorted by armed personnel of central armed police forces, conducted marathon raid and search operations at the residence of businessman Bakibur Rahman, known to be close to a politically influential person in the state.It is learnt that one team of ED sleuths reached the residence of Rahman at a posh housing complex at Kaikhali in the northern outskirts of Kolkata. The second team of the central agency sleuths conducted raids and search operations at a hotel owned by Rahman.A third team of ED sleuths conducted parallel raid and search operations at the residence of a…