NEW DELHI — India’s newly-appointed Minister of Electronics and Information Technology (IT) said the country’s new IT Rules “are empowering and protecting users.” Former Indian Administrative Officer Ashwini Vaishnaw was appointed as the new Electronics and IT Minister replacing senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Ravi Shankar Prasad. The reshuffle comes at a time when the government is at loggerheads with microblogging platform Twitter regarding compliance with the new IT rules. “Reviewed implementation and compliance of Information Technology Rules, 2021 along with my colleague Rajeev Chandrasekhar,” Vaishnaw said in a post on Koo, the Indian alternative to Twitter. “These guidelines are empowering and protecting users…
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HELSINKI — Listening to music daily tends to improve the recovery of language in patients who have experienced a stroke, research by the University of Helsinki and the Turku University Hospital Neuro center suggests. But, again, the neural mechanisms which were underlying the phenomenon, so far, have remained unknown. Published in the eNeuro journal, the study conducted a comparative analysis of the effect of listening to vocal music, audiobooks, and instrumental music. The comparison was done on the structural and functional recovery of the language network of patients who actually suffered from an acute stroke. Also, the study investigated the connecting…
WASHINGTON — An animal study conducted by the Indiana University School of Medicine researchers has deciphered how different distinct factors impact anxiety disorders in both men and women. Published in the journal Psychopharmacology, the findings suggest that the team observed the models of male and female rodents to understand the sex differences better in biological responses related to anxiety. The study focuses on biological factors that impact anxiety disorders, especially in females. When a specific, life-relevant condition arises, the anxiety prevailing within the females intensifies, the study found. The team, led by Thatiane De Oliveira Sergio, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory…
WASHINGTON — Using an existing drug for late-stage kidney cancer during an early stage of the disease tends to reduce the risk of recurring cancer by one-third, research has suggested. Presented in front of the European Association of the Urology Congress (EAU21), the findings of the Phase III trial suggest that there is a high risk of kidney cancer returning, which is followed by the surgery regarding the removal of tumors. There is currently no treatment that can help prevent this. The keynote study involved just under 1,000 patients with kidney cancer who had undergone surgery. Half were given the immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab,…
AMSTERDAM — Obese patients with a form of advanced prostate cancer have the capability of surviving longer than the overweight and the normal-weighted patients, research has found. Following more than 1,500 patients over three years, the study was presented on July 12 at the European Association of Urology Congress or the EAU21. The obese patients who were with a body mass index of over 30 were found to have a survival rate of 10 percent more than the thinner patients over these three years. Although obesity is usually associated with an increased risk of death from many cancers and some other…
MELBOURNE, Australia — Victoria has announced the closure of its borders with New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory over fears of the spread of Covid-19 in the region. Residents of Victoria living outside the state were given hours to return from New South Wales, and Australian Capital Territory as the border shut over fears Covid-19 could leak out of Sydney. The entirety of New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory became red zones under Victoria’s travel permit system from 11.59 pm on July 11, as the southern state’s school holidays ended. Victoria’s acting chief health officer cited concerns about the…
GHAZIABAD, India — Farmers are ready to talk with the government on the farm laws, but the discussions should be held without conditions, said Rakesh Tikat, leader of Bharatiya Kisan Union, farmer’s representative organization in India. Farmers have been protesting at the different borders of the national capital since Nov. 26, 2020, against the three newly enacted farm laws, Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020; the Farmers Empowerment and Protection Agreement on Price Assurance and farm Services Act 2020 and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020. Tikait gave the statement after the remarks made by Union Agriculture Minister Narendra…
ROME — Global food commodity prices fell in June for the first time in 12 months, as per a report released by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The FAO Food Price Index averaged 124.6 points last month, down 2.5 percent from May but still 33.9 percent higher than its level in the same period the previous year. The decline in June marked the first drop in the index following 12 consecutive monthly increases. The Food and Agriculture Organization Food Price Index tracks changes in the international prices of the most globally traded food commodities. The drop in June reflected declines in the prices…
NEW DELHI — “There is no “one size fits all” approach for localization of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), but can certainly share experience and learn from each other to implement the 2030 Agenda at United Nations,” India said on July 8. The 2030 Sustainable Development Goals Agenda is the global effort to mobilize actions and commitments to achieve clean, affordable energy for all by 2030. India’s permanent representative to the UN was speaking at the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) on the subject “How can localization of Sustainable Development Goals contribute to Leaving no one behind?” “It goes without saying that we need…
LILONGWE, Malawi — When the community of Mcheza village, Malawi, woke up on the morning of Nov. 26, 2021, they were in awe of a new structure that had sprouted out at the end of the schoolyard in the middle of the night. “The night before, men were working on the site setting up equipment and, in the morning, a whole new school block was standing on the ground reserved for a school,” Senior Chief Kalonga told Zenger News on the sidelines of an event to hand over the classroom to the community on June 18, 2021. The classroom, printed overnight,…