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Pakistan’s interim Prime Minister said he expects parliamentary elections to take place in the new year, dismissing the possibility that the country’s powerful military would manipulate the results to ensure that jailed former premier Imran Khan’s party doesn’t win. In an interview with The Associated Press on Friday, Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar said it’s the Election Commission…
Pope Francis attends a press conference on board an airplane on his flight back from Marseille to Rome on September 23, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters Pope Francis has labelled the weapons industry as being a key driver of the “martyrdom” of Ukraine’s people in Russia’s war, saying even the withholding of weapons now is…
Global debt refers to the borrowings of governments as well as private businesses and individuals. Photo: imf.org The story so far: Global debt rose to an all-time high of $307 trillion in the second quarter, by the end of June 2023, the Institute of International Finance (IIF) said in a report released last week. Quite…
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Bernard with his pupils. | Photo Credit: Wellcome Collection gallery Wikimedia Commons Do you know what glycogen is? The stored form of a simple sugar called glucose, glycogen is a multibranched polysaccharide that serves as a form of energy storage among animals, fungi, and bacteria. The principal form in which carbohydrates are stored in higher…
Manchester City moved five points clear at the top of the Premier League despite having Rodri sent-off in a fiery 2-0 win over Nottingham Forest on Saturday. Phil Foden and Erling Haaland struck inside the first 15 minutes as City extended their perfect start in the Premier League to six games. Pep Guardiola’s men have…
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Xi met Prachanda on the sidelines of the Hangzhou Asian Games in eastern China. Hangzhou: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday vowed to help Nepal transform itself from a landlocked country to a land-linked nation by facilitating infrastructure connectivity and transit transportation cooperation as he met Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’. Xi met Prachanda…
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The neural circuitry underlying the responses of mouse mothers to calls from their pups has now been studied by researchers. The results were published in Nature. This mechanism may be important for sustaining mouse maternal care over time, the authors suggest. The hormone oxytocin is known to be important for maternal physiology and behaviour; for example,…
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The levels of cyclic sugar alcohol in breast milk is high during first two weeks of lactation | Photo Credit: Getty Images “Human breast milk is not only a perfectly adapted nutritional supply for the infant, but probably the most specific personalised medicine that he/she is likely to receive, given at a time when gene…
The draft patent amendment rules made public on August 23 this year could hugely benefit big pharma but turn out to be disastrous for patients in India and in countries in the global South, which rely on generic drugs manufactured in India, in accessing affordable drugs and vaccines. The draft rules released by the Department for…
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Researchers have uncovered a crucial component for restoring functional activity after spinal cord injury. The neuroscientists have shown that re-growing specific neurons back to their natural target regions led to recovery, while random regrowth was not effective (Science). They aimed to determine whether directing the regeneration of axons from specific neuronal subpopulations to their natural…
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