Day: May 13, 2019

COVID surge, vaccine shortages spread beyond India’s borders

3 held for killing rival gangster near Saket court

8:37 pm May 13, 2019

New Delhi: Three men have been arrested for allegedly killing a rival gang member near Saket court on May 6, police said. The arrested accused are Badal (27), a resident of Ambedkar Nagar, Satender (26), from Govindpuri, and Asfak Ahmed (24), a resident of Dakshinpuri, they said. Acting on a tip-off, police apprehended Badal on […]

20-yr-old man gets new lease of life after heart transplant at AIIMS

AI overtakes humans in predicting death, heart attack risk

2:45 pm May 13, 2019

London: Scientists have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that is better than human doctors at predicting the risk of heart attack or death. By repeatedly analysing 85 variables in 950 patients with known six-year outcomes, an algorithm “learned” how imaging data interacts. It then identified patterns correlating the variables to death and heart attack with more than 90 per cent […]

Shooting near Florida Trump resort leaves 1 dead, 2 injured

2:40 pm May 13, 2019

Sunny Isles Beach: Police are investigating a shooting near one of President Donald Trump’s resorts in Florida that left one person dead and two others injured. Miami Dade Police spokesman Alvaro Zabaleta said that a call came in at 1:41 p.m. on Sunday stating that shots were fired at the Trump International Beach Resort Miami in Sunny Isles Beach. Sunny Isles officers responded to the scene and […]

UK judge sets February 2020 for Assange extradition hearing

Sweden to decide whether to reopen Assange rape case

2:33 pm May 13, 2019

Stockholm: Swedish prosecutors plan to say Monday whether they will reopen a rape case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, a month after he was removed from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Eva-Marie Persson, Sweden’s deputy director of public prosecutions, is scheduled to hold a news conference in Stockholm. If Sweden relaunches the case, that could leave Britain deciding whether to extradite him to the Scandinavian country […]

Sunny Deol escapes unhurt in Gurdaspur mishap

2:29 pm May 13, 2019

Gurdaspur: Actor-turned politician Sunny Deol escaped unhurt after his vehicle was involved in a collision with three cars here on Monday, police said. The mishap occurred after one of the tyres in Deol’s sports utility vehicle burst near a ‘Gurdwara’ in Sohal village here, Gurdaspur Deputy Superintendent of Police (rural) Manjit Singh told PTI. A total of four vehicles collided with each […]