India

New Delhi, November 19 A study on mice has shown how gut-produced hunger hormones can influence decision-making and drive an animal’s behaviour. The researchers said that the findings demonstrate how the hunger hormone can cross the blood-brain barrier and directly impact the brain to drive activity, controlling a circuit in the brain that is likely to be the same or …

Muktsar, November 19 A philanthropist spent around Rs 3.75 lakh to provide 92 blood pressure and as many glucose monitors to government senior secondary schools in Muktsar district in May. However, the project to monitor blood pressure and glucose of Class XI and XII students, has so far remained a non-starter. Prof SPS Brar (retd) of Maha Badhar village said before …

New York, November 19 Researchers at Texas A&M University in the US are working to create a fully injectable continuous glucose monitor (CGM) so small it rivals a grain of rice and can be used with an external optical reader to measure sugar levels at any given time. Two faculty members from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the university …

New Delhi, November 20 The number of measles deaths globally increased by 43 per cent from 2021-2022, following years of declining vaccination rates, according to a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The report noted that in 2022, 37 countries experienced large or disruptive measles outbreaks compared with …

Chandigarh, November 20 Pakistan’s ex-captain Babar Azam congratulated Australia after Pat Cummins’ men won the ICC World Cup 2023 finals. This reminded many of Virat Kohli’s Instagram post for England, when Pakistan lost the match in T20 world Cup finals by 5 wickets in November 2022. Many called it a tit-for-tat saying that Babar’s wish was well-intentioned. Many wondered if …

Berlin, November 20 France, Germany and Italy have reached an agreement on how artificial intelligence should be regulated, according to a joint paper seen by Reuters, which is expected to accelerate negotiations at the European level. The three governments support “mandatory self-regulation through codes of conduct” for so-called foundation models of AI, which are designed to produce a broad range …

PTI Mumbai, November 20 The Mumbai police have registered an FIR against fugitive gangster Chhota Shakeel’s alleged associate Riyaz Bhati on charges of threatening a witness from jail in an extortion case registered against him, an official said on Monday. Bhati is lodged at a jail in Mumbai in the extortion case in which Shakeel’s brother-in-law Salim Fruit and five …

Bengaluru, November 20 A passenger on board an IndiGo flight from Jaipur to Bengaluru who was allegedly intoxicated and misbehaved with crew members despite multiple warnings was arrested, police said on Monday. After landing on November 17, the 32-year-old passenger was handed over to the police at the Kempegowda International Airport here, a senior police officer said. Play Mute Loaded: 1.17% …

Imphal, November 19 Normal flight services at Manipur’s Imphal International Airport were affected on Sunday afternoon over sighting of an unidentified flying object (UFO), officials said. Two flights were diverted and three others delayed. Services normalised after around three hours. “Due to sighting of an unidentified flying object within Imphal controlled airspace, two flights have been diverted and three departing …

Khan Younis (Gaza Strip), November 19 Thirty-one premature babies were safely transferred from Gaza’s main hospital to another in the south on Sunday, and will be moved to Egypt, health officials said, as scores of other critically wounded patients remained stranded there days after Israeli forces entered the compound. The fate of the newborns at Shifa Hospital had captured global …