Guwahati (Assam) [India], June 27 (ANI): Assam reported 36 fresh COVID-19 cases with no deaths in the past 24 hours, taking the active caseload to 256, informed the state government data on Sunday.
Washington [US], June 26 (ANI): A new study from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai quantifies the cardiovascular risk posed by exposure to specific environmental factors, showing, for example, that air pollution heightens the risk of heart disease mortality by 17 per cent.
Dhaka [Bangladesh], June 26 (ANI): In a fresh surge of COVID-19 infections, Bangladesh on Sunday reported two deaths and 1,680 new COVID-19 cases, the biggest single-day increase in more than four months.
Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia], June 26 (ANI/Xinhua): Malaysia reported 2,302 new COVID-19 infections as of midnight of Saturday, bringing the national total to 45,54,661, according to the Health Ministry.
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 26 (ANI): Pakistan reported 406 new COVID-19 cases and two deaths in the last 24 hours, according to the Ministry of Health on Sunday.
Aizwal (Mizoram) [India], June 26 (ANI): Mizoram reported 55 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the positivity rate to 23.61 per cent, informed the state Department of Information and Public Relations (DIPR) on Sunday.
Bhikhiwind (Punjab) [India], June 26 (ANI): Dalbir Kaur, sister of Sarabjit Singh who was sentenced to death for spying by a Pakistan court in 1991 and passed away in 2013 in Lahore, has died on Saturday night.
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 26 (ANI): Amid assassination rumours of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan, a spying attempt on him by an employee of Bani Gala was foiled when the employee was trying to install a spy device in Khan's room, local media reported.
New Delhi [India], June 26 (ANI): The national capital witnessed a dip in the new COVID-19 cases with 666 fresh infections recorded in the last 24 hours, according to a health bulletin by the Delhi government on Saturday.
Washington [US], June 25 (ANI): Oscar-nominated producer and long-time member of the Director Guild of America's national board (DGA), Duncan Henderson, died at the age of 72 in Valencia, California.
Washington [US], June 25 (ANI): Environmental factors such as air pollution, along with other parameters like high blood pressure, diabetes and smoking are highly predictive of people's chances of dying, especially from heart attack and stroke, according to a new study.
Pyongyang [North Korea], June 25 (ANI/Xinhua): About 9,600 fever cases were reported in the past 24 hours through 0900 GMT on Friday in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), with zero deaths, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Saturday.