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New Delhi/Kabul, Aug 5 : Afghan security forces have launched a major offensive operation in Lashkargah city, the capital of Helmand province, and urged the residents to evacuate the areas under Taliban control.Security forces warned that the Taliban…

Washington, Aug 5 : Moderna’s booster shots against Covid-19 have shown robust antibody responses, according to results of Phase 2 clinical trials published on Thursday.In the trial, Moderna tested a 50-microgram dose of three vaccine booster candida…

London, Aug 5 : An artificial pancreas could soon help people living with Type-2 diabetes and who also require kidney dialysis.Tests led by the University of Cambridge and Inselspital, University Hospital of Bern, Switzerland, show that the device ca…

New Delhi/Kabul, Aug 5 : Anti-Taliban rallying calls, which were first chanted by the people in Herat province, have now spread to Afghan capital Kabul, Khost, Nangarhar and Kunar provinces.In Kabul, thousands of people took to the streets chanting ‘…

London, Aug 5 : Treating hospitalised Covid-19 patients who have acute respiratory failure with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) can help reduce the need for invasive mechanical ventilation, suggests a study.The study, led by Queen’s Univer…

London, Aug 5 : Healthcare staff handling the Covid pandemic since the last 18 months are experiencing high levels of depression, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety and burn-out, a global review of such studies has found.The review, condu…

Toronto, Aug 5 : Scientists have identified a protein in the blood that could be responsible for an aggressive inflammatory response, known as a cytokine storm, which is also the leading cause of death in Covid-19 patients.The team, from the Universi…

New Delhi, Aug 5: Admittedly all the semblance of normalcy in Kashmir over the last 2-3 years cannot be attributed exclusively to withdrawal of the States special status and its reduced conversion to a Union Territory by the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganis…

Sydney, Aug 5 : New South Wales, Australia’s worst-hit state by the Covid-19 pandemic, reported a new record in daily confirmed cases, leading the government to extend the regions placed under lockdown.The NSW Health on Thursday recorded 262 new loca…

Los Angeles, Aug 5 : Amid a resurgence, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has reported 3,734 new confirmed Covid-19 cases and 16 deaths in the last 24 hours, which increased the cumulative infection tally to 1,311,656 and fatalities …