Sushmita Sen returns to ramp at Lakme Fashion WeekXFDCI

Days after suffering a massive heart attack, Bollywood star Sushmita Sen made her first public appearance as a showstopper for designer Anushree Reddy at the ongoing Lakme Fashion WeekXFDCI.

Sen, 47, walked the ramp on Saturday wearing a yellow lehenga with delicate embroidery. She kept her hair loose and wore a statement neckpiece.

The former Miss Universe, who has been updating fans about her health since earlier this month, said it was a “memorable walk back to life”.

“A walk to remember... I celebrate life ... Jhoom! Thank you @ anushreereddydesign & team for this memorable walk back to life... your designs beautiful as your heart!!

#yours #showstopper Cheers @lakmefashonwk @fdciofficial @lubna.adam @jioworldgarden. To the live audience & the Media... thank you for all the love & goodness. I love guys!” she wrote on Instagram alongside videos of her return to runway.

The actor was welcomed on ramp with a thunderous applause.

In another video message, Sen thanked fans and well-wishers as well as the team behind the show for their constant support. (PTI)

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Scientists in Australia have discovered an enzyme in bacteria that converts air into energy, an advance that opens the way for a new clean source of power.

to date.

The team also used a technique called electrochemistry to demonstrate the purified enzyme creates electricity at minute hydrogen concentrations.

Experts say mind-controlling mushrooms aren’t an imminent threat, but anti-fungal drug resistance is.

Here’s the science fact and fiction behind the show, and the possibility of a fungal pandemic.

The first season of HBO’s “The Last of Us” ends on Sunday, but there’s still much to learn from the science that inspired it.

In most ways, the show depicts a classic zombie apocalypse.

One morning, everybody is going about their normal life. There’s a mention on the radio of chaos in Jakarta. And by nightfall, twitchy, possessed oncehumans are sprinting after the main character.

This time, though, it’s a fungus turning people into zombies.

The new scenario, first realized in the video game that the show is based on, is making viewers wonder whether a fungus pandemic can happen in real life.

“A fungal pandemic is definitely possible,” Norman Van Rhijn, a mycologist researching fungal infections at the University of Manchester, told Insider in an email.

“The potential is huge for what can emerge and become a pathogen,” Tom Chiller, chief of the fungal disease branch of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told Insider. “I am not going to be surprised that more fungi emerge as human pathogens, that become more challenging to treat and more infectious.”

Here’s the science fact and science fiction behind “The Last of Us,” and the threats that fungi pose.

Cordyceps is real, but it only overtakes the brains and bodies of insects — most famously, ants.

The fungus grows inside an ant’s body, causes the ant to climb upwards, and then sprouts from its head and releases spores, attempting to spread itself far and wide.

Cordyceps can’t survive at human body temperature, so it can’t infect us. But other species of fungus produce substances with mind-altering qualities that can affect human behavior.

Psilocybin facilitator students sit with eye masks on while listening to music during an experiential activity at a training session near Damascus, Oregon.Andrew Selsky/AP Photo

Some historians attribute the Salem Witch Trials to ergot poisoning, saying that women began behaving strangely and accusing each other of witchcraft after eating infected rye. The psychoactive substance LSD is derived from ergot.

“Every time you have a beer, your behavior is affected by the byproduct of a fungus, which is ethanol,” David Hughes, who has studied Cordyceps and consulted on the video game “The Last of Us,” told Insider.

The fungus Cryptococcus can also spread from the lungs to the brain and cause meningitis — inflammation — that can alter behavior.

Unlike on TV, though, mind-altering fungus “doesn’t jump into our body and affect a behavior that enables future transmission,” Hughes said.

Fungal diseases can jump from animals to humans. But the idea that a fungus like Cordyceps could mutate enough to make the giant leap from insects to humans, and still keep its

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“#TuJhoothiMainMakkaar collects Rs. 16.57 CR NBOC on Saturday, crossing its release day collection and shows a growth of 64% compared to Friday. Total NBOC - Rs. 53.16 CR,” the note read.

“Tu Jhoothi Main Makkaar” is produced by Luv Films and Ankur Garg and presented by Gulshan Kumar and Bhushan Kumar of T-Series. (PTI) ability to effectively manipulate behavior, is far-fetched.

In the infectiousdisease world, “never say never,” Chiller said.

“But I will say that there’s a lot, a lot of hurdles that need to be overcome,” he continued. “An ant and a human are dramatically different. We have immune systems, we live at different temperatures, you know, our body temperature is much higher. So there are just some fundamental things that are going to be exceedingly hard for that particular fungus to overcome.”

A mycology specialist in the Vanderbilt Clinical Microbiology Lab for patient care examines samples to isolate and identify specimens for growth in Nashville, Tennessee.Harrison McClary/Reuters

In “The Last of Us,” the first cases of fictional human Cordyceps appear in Jakarta, Indonesia, where the government asks a leading mycologist to identify the fungus under a microscope and wriggling in the mouth of a dead civilian. Horrified, she learns that 14 people who worked with the victim have disappeared.

“There is no medicine. There is no vaccine,” she grimly informs a government official. She recommends that the government bomb the entire city to contain the fungus.

In real life, it’s true that there is no vaccine for deadly fungal infections (though experts don’t recommend bombing as a

Congratulatory Note

The finding, published in the journal Nature, shows that this enzyme uses the low amounts of the hydrogen in the atmosphere to create an electrical current.

The research team produced and analysed a hydrogen-consuming enzyme from a common soil bacterium.

Recent work by the team has shown that many bacteria use hydrogen from the atmosphere as an energy source in nutrient-poor environments.

“We’ve known for some time that bacteria can use the trace hydrogen in the air as a source of energy to help them grow and survive, including in Antarctic soils, volcanic craters, and the deep ocean,” said Professor Chris Greening from Monash University in Australia.

“But we didn’t know substitute). There are only a few classes of drugs to treat them, and they aren’t always reliable cures.

In fact, because fungi are so similar to humans at the cellular level, many of the drugs that fight them are also toxic to human bodies.

According to Global Action for Fungal Infections, fungi kill more people than malaria.

“The problem with fungi is we don’t have a lot of things in our toolkit to control them,” Hughes said.

Some deadly fungi, like Candida auris, which emerged in 2009, have even developed a powerful resistance to the anti-fungal drugs we do have. In hospital outbreaks, Candida auris has killed anywhere from 29% to 53% of its victims, according to the World Health Organization.

(Yahoo Entertainment) how they did this, until now,” Greening said.

The researchers extracted the enzyme responsible for using atmospheric hydrogen from a bacterium called Mycobacterium smegmatis. They showed that this enzyme, called Huc, turns hydrogen gas into an electrical current.

“Huc is extraordinarily efficient. Unlike all other known enzymes and chemical catalysts, it even consumes hydrogen below atmospheric levels -- as little as 0.00005 per cent of the air we breathe,” said Rhys Grinter from Monash University.

The researchers used several cutting-edge methods to reveal the molecular blueprint of atmospheric hydrogen oxidation.

They used advanced microscopy (cryo-EM) to determine its atomic structure and electrical pathways, pushing boundaries to produce the most resolved enzyme structure reported by this method

Laboratory work performed by Ashleigh Kropp, a PHD student at Monash University, shows that it is possible to store purified Huc for long periods.

“It is astonishingly stable. It is possible to freeze the enzyme or heat it to 80 degrees celsius, and it retains its power to generate energy,” Kropp said.

“This reflects that this enzyme helps bacteria to survive in the most extreme environments,” he said.

Huc is a “natural battery” that produces a sustained electrical current from air or added hydrogen, the researchers said.

While this research is at an early stage, the discovery of Huc has considerable potential to develop small air-powered devices, for example as an alternative to solar-powered devices, they added. (PTI)

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Oscar weekend belonged to “Scream VI” in theaters, as the horror sequel notched a franchise-best $44.5 million in domestic ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.

The Paramount Pictures and Spyglass Media Group co-production sailed past expectations, easily surpassing the previous series high of $32 million that “Scream 2” opened with in 1997. The film’s robust debut, coming as Hollywood prepared to gather for the 95th Academy Awards, was yet another reminder of how horror has come to be one of the industry’s few sure things at the box office.

After lying dormant for more than a decade, the “Scream” franchise, previously directed by Wes Craven and released by Dimension Films, has found a ripe revival with a young cast led by “Wednesday” star Jenna Ortega and Melissa Barrera.

Directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett have brought back the 27-year-old series’ meta slasher storylines and serial killer Ghostface, and it’s paying off. Last year’s “Scream V” grossed $137 million worldwide on a production budget of $24 million. In the latest chapter, Courtney Cox returns as reporter Gale Weathers, as does Hayden Panettiere, a veteran of “Scream IV.” But it’s the first “Scream” movie without Neve Campbell. (AP)

The Dimapur Riphyim Ekhung (DRE) with immense pride and honour extends our heartiest congratulations to SHRI. Y PATTON from 37 Tyui A/C who has been elected to the 14th Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA) with thumping majority in the recently concluded General Election, 2023.

The DRE would like to thank SHRI NEIPHIU RIO, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Nagaland for having his trust and confidence in him by allotting him as the Deputy Chief Minister with portfolio for Home and Border Affairs yet again.

The DRE further extend our prayers and wishes that our Almighty God grant him good health, wisdom and knowledge to lead his people.

(THUNGBEMO PATTON) (SHARON PATTON) CHAIRMAN GENERAL SECRETARY

DRE

MLA & Advisor Industries and Commerce

Govt. of Nagaland

The Nagaland Garo Tribal Council (NGTC), an Apex Body representing the Garo Tribe of Nagaland, whole heartedly congratulates Madam Hekani Jakhalu, on being elected to the 14th Nagaland Legislative Assembly from 3 Dimapur III Assembly constituency and also for creating history of becoming one of the first women MLA in the state.

We pray that God will continue to bless you with good health and prosperity as you step towards your new journey.

CLIFF SANGMA KARAMPAL MOMIN Jt. Secretary President d P -1043/23

With immense pride and reverence, the Zunheboto Tokukujo Küqhakulu Dimapur Congratulates Ino K. Tokugha Sukhalu, (IAS Retd.), Hon'ble MLA for being appointed as the Advisor Food & Civil Supply, Legal Metrology, Nagaland.

We invoke the blessings of wisdom and good health from the Almighty God, even as the Hon'ble MLA and Advisor strives to lead his community towards prosperity, peace and development.

We further extend our gratitude to Ino Neiphiu Rio Hon'ble Chief Minister Nagaland, for endowing faith in our leader.

Er. Kakiye Jakha Khuju Er. Z Mughavi Yeputhomi Chairman ZTKD General Secretary ZTKD