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Therapeutic Drug Can Render Cancer Cells: Study

Arpita SarkarAugust 26, 20220

The protective scent that many tumour cells spray themselves with suppresses the immune system. However, it appears that a drug that is already approved for other uses can neutralize this weapon. A study from the University of Bonn and the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf published in the Journal for Immunotherapy of Cancer proves this. The researchers said, "The substance will now be further optimized. This could eventually lead to the development of anti-cancer drugs." Many cancer cells have dense clouds of adenosine around them. The chemicals suppress the immune system. Feeding it promotes the growth of new blood vessels. It hydrates the tumour. This additionally ensures that cancer cells spread to other organs. They develop metastases there. Adenosine triphosphate is u

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Supreme Court Opposes Different Abortion Limits For Unmarried Women; Read Here!

Arpita SarkarAugust 24, 20220

A woman whose live-in relationship has ended should be given the same right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy as a widow or divorced woman, the Supreme Court said on Tuesday, indicating that it would interpret the law to include "unmarried women" or "single women" under provisions that allow abortions up to 24 weeks. The court made the observations while hearing a plea by a 25-year-old woman who challenged the 20-week minimum limit under the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act, 1971, which applies to unmarried women seeking termination of pregnancy. The woman said she was abandoned by her partner. A bench observed, "Going by the legislative intent, a widow has lost the support of her life partner and in divorce too, there is loss of support from a life partner. This logic wil

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Indian Women Get Less Access To Heart Transplant Surgeries Than Men: Data

Arpita SarkarAugust 23, 20220

Women in India are deprived of many things just because of their gender. One of them, it would appear, would be equitable access to data from some prominent hospitals on life-saving surgeries. Data have been collected from hospitals for three major surgical specialities that come with significantly high costs for operation/rehabilitation — cardiothoracic, organ transplant, and orthopaedic surgery. Data showed that there is a significant gender skew in favor of men in two specialties: cardiothoracic and transplant surgery. This is even when, doctors say, the chances of a man or a woman needing this surgery are comparable. However, the numbers seemed a little less skewed as one moves south, with doctors claiming that the gender gap in surgery is a reflection of social realities,...

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Where Did Earth’s Early Life Forms Get Oxygen? Scientists Finally Have Some Answers; Checkout!

Arpita SarkarAugust 23, 20220

By studying the genomes of common lifeforms, scientists know that the first organisms on Earth had genes that could break down oxygen and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). But how hydrogen peroxide - which can be a useful source of oxygen when broken down - got into the water, where the first life evolved, was a mystery. It is known that only trace amounts of H202 were present on the first Earth - Earth in its first billion years. Published in the journal Nature Communications, a new peer-reviewed study by scientists at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom shows that tectonic plate movement — and the associated stresses on the Earth's crust — was a source of oxygen that helped drive the biochemistry where life exists. First evolved on Earth. In the study, the scientists showed h...

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Over 50% Indian Students Struggled To Learn English And Math During Covid: Survey

Arpita SarkarAugust 20, 20220

A study found that students in grades 2 and 8 in 22 Indian states struggled to learn during the Covid years, with Math and English the main casualties. The survey by the social organization Smile Foundation – and conducted between May and July 2022 – noted that more than 50 percent of students in these grades were unable to keep up and exhibited severe learning deficits. Students identified for the survey were those who had continued their studies despite all odds due to Covid-19. Five percent of them, or 2,464, were studied among the 48,000 students registered with the foundation who were in grades 2 through 8. More than 100 teachers, leaders of 10 non-governmental organizations, and 500 parents also participated in the survey. The survey found that 51 percent of Grade 2 stud...

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Alzheimer’s Disease Leads To Loss Of Visual Memory: Study

Arpita SarkarAugust 20, 20220

According to a new MIT study, Alzheimer's disease affects at least one type of visual memory by deteriorating a recently discovered circuit that connects the image processing areas of each brain hemisphere. The findings, published in the journal Neuron by a research team at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, come from experiments in mice, but provide a physiological and mechanistic basis for earlier observations in human patients: reductions in the level of brain rhythms between counterpart regions in each hemisphere correlate with the clinical severity of dementia. Author Chinnakkaruppan Adaikkan, assistant professor in the Centre for Brain Research at the IISc said, "We demonstrate that there is a functional circuit that can explain this phenomenon. In a way we uncovere...

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Bilkis Convicts’ Remission Revives 2002 Memories For Gujarat Muslims; Read Full News!

Arpita SarkarAugust 20, 20220

All vehicular entrances to Naroda and Naroda Patiya were barricaded on Friday. Police presence in these areas of Ahmedabad, which saw the worst of the 2002 Gujarat riots, is usually associated with something ominous. But, on Friday, it was for a fun fair on the streets of Naroda, where children jumped on trampolines, a young girl walked on a tightrope mesmerizing onlookers, while adults bought various items from stalls set up on the pavement. Amid a raging controversy over the release of 11 convicts in the 2002 Bilkis Bano gang-rape case, life continued as normal in Naroda and Naroda Patia — where an armed mob of about 5,000 killed more than 97 people during the 2002 riots. Muslim families in the neighborhood were angered by the Gujarat government's decision to pardon 11 accus...

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Sexual Harassment Complaint Invalid If Woman Wears ‘Provocative Dress’: Kerala Court

Arpita SarkarAugust 18, 20220

A court in Kozhikode, Kerala has said that a case of sexual harassment under Section 354 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) will not stand prima facie if the woman is wearing "sexually provocative dresses." The Sessions Judge, S Krishna Kumar, observed that to attract the offense under Section 354, there must be some unwanted sexual advances but in the instant case, the complainant's photographs showed her "exposing herself in provocative dresses". The court said, "In order to attract this Section, there must be a physical contact and advances involving unwelcome and explicit sexual overtures. There must be a demand or request for sexual favours. There must be sexually colored remarks. The photographs produced along with the bail application by the accused would reveal that defacto c...

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Joe Biden Believes India-US Relationship Important For Global Peace, Economy: US Official

Arpita SarkarAugust 17, 20220

US President Joe Biden believes that for global peace, stability, and economic resilience India-US relations are essential. His top trade negotiator said that the two countries are now better positioned to work on tough issues. USTR (US Trade Representative) Katherine Tai said to the US Taranjit Singh Sandhu at India House on Independence Day, "President Biden believes that the relationship between our two great democracies is essential to global peace, stability and economic resilience." India and the US face similar challenges as they move further into the 21st century. Tai said, "Well, the trade issues that I work on might be in the trickier basket of bilateral issues. I feel very, very positive about the trajectory that we are on. Our bilateral trade in goods and services is ...

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India’s ‘Salaried Class’ Shrinks By 2.7 Percentage During Pandemic: Survey

Arpita SarkarAugust 16, 20220

There is much to lament in India's post-Covid job market, where recovery has been painfully slow. However, official data suggests that in the salaried sector, the participation of religious minorities – Muslims, Sikhs,, and Christians, in that order – has been most severely affected. The Ministry of Statistics and Program Implementation's latest PLFS (Periodic Labor Force Survey) – which covers the period from July 2020 to June 2021 and was released earlier this year – at least partially captures the impact of the lockdown, and its immediate aftermath, on salaried jobs across the sector. The survey defined regular/salaried employees as a person who has worked in another's farm or non-farm enterprise (both household and non-household) and, in return, has received salary or wages o...

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Indian Children Rank Best In Dealing With Online Risks: Survey

Arpita SarkarAugust 12, 20220

According to a study by UK-based cybersecurity firm Surfshark, children in India have the best ability to deal with online risks in the world. India ranks after Malaysia and Japan, while Saudi Arabia, Uruguay, and Thailand are at the bottom for children with poor online risk-management skills. The study states that the number of cyber crimes against children has steadily increased by 5-9% each year but increased by 144% in 2020, after nearly one billion school children worldwide moved online for distance learning. In 2020 alone, the annual financial loss from cybercrime against children reached Rs 5.02 crore (US$ 660,000). However, India ranked 5th lowest globally in terms of children's exposure to online. Managing exposure to online risks and developing the ability to deal with them...

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85% Indian Children Experience Cyberbullying, Highest In World: Survey

Arpita SarkarAugust 12, 20220

About 85 percent of children in India have reported being cyberbullied, the highest in the world, according to a new survey released by global computer security firm McAfee Corp on Monday. Titled 'Cyberbullying in Plain Sight', the report is based on a 10-country survey to uncover new and "internal trends" in cyberbullying. The study noted that the number of Indian children who reported being cyberbullied was twice the international average. About 45 percent of children in India said they had cyberbullied a stranger, compared to 17 percent globally, and 48 percent said they had cyberbullied someone they knew, compared to 21 percent of children in other countries. The top three forms of cyberbullying reported in India are spreading false rumors (39 percent), exclusion from groups ...

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