Phnom Penh, Aug 6 (IANS) A six-year-old girl from southern Cambodia’s Takeo province has been confirmed for H5N1 human avian influenza, bringing the number of cases to 15 so far this year, the Ministry of Health said in a statement on Wednesday.”A laboratory result from the National Institute of Public Health showed on August 5 that the girl was positive for H5N1 virus,” the statement said.”The patient has the symptoms of fever, cough, fatigue, and breathing difficulty, and she is currently bein…

Beijing, Aug 6 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to travel to China to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit to be held in Tianjin City from August 31-September 1, reports cited on Wednesday. This will be PM Modi’s first visit to China since the Galwan clash in 2020, which severely strained bilateral ties. PM Modi had earlier travelled to China in 2019. He also held a meeting with the Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in Russia’s Kazan…

Wellington, Aug 6 (IANS) New Zealand has pledged support to Samoa amid a severe dengue outbreak that has so far claimed the lives of five Samoan children.Acknowledging the close ties between the two nations, New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters said on Wednesday that the New Zealand government will dispatch a small team to Apia, the Samoan capital, to provide clinical assistance and work with Samoan authorities on further medical support requirements.Additionally, New Zealand will provide…

Chandigarh, Aug 6 (IANS) Punjab Health and Family Welfare Minister, Balbir Singh, on Wednesday exhorted the public to make maximum use of the ‘Food Safety on Wheels’ initiative, which has now expanded to all the districts of the Aam Aadmi Party-ruled state. Notably, ‘Food Safety on Wheels’ are mobile food testing vans, which are equipped to screen adulteration among major categories of food including milk, paneer (cottage cheese), water, and other daily consumables.“These vans are a cr…

Kolkata, Aug 6 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Wednesday that her administration will not take any action against the four election officers in the state against whom the Election Commission of India (ECI) has directed immediate suspension and lodging of affairs for their involvement in the wrongful addition of names in the electoral rolls of two Assembly seats should be considered as the commission’s first note of caution for all involved in the electoral process in th…

New Delhi, Aug 6 (IANS) Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, his entire Cabinet, Congress MPs and state legislators on Wednesday staged a day-long dharna at Jantar Mantar, demanding Presidential assent for two Bills passed by the state legislature for enhancing reservation for backward classes to 42 per cent in education, employment and local bodies.Top Congress leadership stayed away from the protest but leaders of INDIA partners extended their support.AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge an…

Varanasi, Aug 6 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi, visiting his Lok Sabha constituency during the weekend, launched a wide range of development projects worth over Rs 2,200 crores and also released the 20th instalment of the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme, benefitting crores of farmers. When PM Modi reached Varanasi on August 2, he met several shopkeepers of the holy city, who lined up at the airport and the streets to give him a warm welcome. These are the same people who…

Burhanpur (Madhya Pradesh), Aug 6 (IANS) With the Centre setting a target to eliminate sickle cell anaemia from the country by 2047, Health Department officials in Madhya Pradesh’s Burhanpur are working tirelessly to contribute to this national mission. The responsibility of achieving this ambitious goal has been entrusted to the Health Department, which is carrying out extensive ground-level work.Teams of healthcare workers are visiting villages, schools, and hostels in the district to raise …

Chennai, Aug 6 (IANS) Archana Sankara Narayanan, India’s leading freediver, has achieved another milestone by breaking two national records at the Manado Apnea competition in Indonesia held from August 1 to 3. Archana reached 38 metres in Constant Weight Bi-Fins (CWTB) and an unprecedented 40 metres in Constant Weight (CWT), becoming the first Indian woman to cross the 40-metre mark in a competitive freediving event. The achievement strengthens her position as India’s deepest female freediver an…

New Delhi, Aug 6 (IANS) The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Wednesday issued an advisory cautioning the public about a rise in cyber frauds and financial scams involving misuse of its name.According to the authority, the fraud includes impersonation of TRAI officials through calls, messages, forged documents, and fraudulent letterheads to threaten or mislead individuals and coerce them into sharing personal information or transferring money.”Any such outreach allegedly in the nam…