Video: Nigerian President enters Kaaba during Umrah visit
Makkah: Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu entered the Holy Kaaba at the Grand Mosque in Makkah on Monday, November 2, during his Umrah visit to Saudi Arabia, describing it as a rare and historic spiritual honour. Tinubu becomes the second Nigerian President to enter the Kaaba, after former President Muhammadu Buhari, who was granted access Get the latest updates in Hyderabad City News , Technology , Entertainment , Sports , Politics and Top Stories on WhatsApp & Telegram by subscribing to our channels. You can also download our app for Android and iOS .
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A private jet bound for the Bahamas crashed in Palm Beach County, Fla., Sunday afternoon, killing all nine people on board. The Learjet 60, which had taken off from Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Texas, went down at about 12:50 p.m. ET near Cresthaven, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said. Dashcam footage posted to social media by an eyewitness showed the aircraft falling toward the ground beside a road and exploding into a fireball, narrowly missing cars and homes. Duffy called the crash a horrific tragedy in a post on X , adding: Please join me in praying for the families and loved ones of those we lost. Air traffic control audio posted on LiveATC captured the crew's comments leading up to the crash. Someone in the cockpit can be heard saying Mayday, mayday, reporting the plane was descending at 10,000 feet per minute, Reuters reported. We're going to crash into the ground, the person said. The impact left a massive crater near the entrance to a mobile home park, Palm Beach County Commissioner Joel Flores said at a news conference. About 600 residents were evacuated to two shelters, he said. The National Transportation Safety Board has opened an investigation, and the cause is not yet known. What we know The Learjet 60 took off from Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, bound for North Eleuthera Airport in the Bahamas, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. FAA records list the owner as a Delaware corporation. The National Weather Service had a flood watch in effect for the area of the crash, Palm Beach County, through Monday afternoon, with rain expected on and off across South Florida. In air traffic control audio posted on LiveATC, someone in the cockpit said they were managing the ice but faced moderate turbulence and were seeking better rides. AP reported the crew also asked to climb. Less than a minute later, the person said Mayday, mayday, reporting the plane was suddenly descending at 10,000 feet per minute. Seconds later, the person declared an emergency, with the descent rate reaching 20,000 feet per minute. Less than 20 seconds later, the person said: We're going to crash into the ground, before reporting the descent rate had reached 22,000 feet per minute as the plane began to bank. Flightradar24 data showed the vertical descent rate at one point exceeded 32,000 feet per minute. The last words heard from the cockpit were we're out of time. Driver Aki Kuusisto's dashcam footage captured the moment the jet hit the ground. I heard a whistling noise, a big bang, and I saw a fireball, he told CBS News . It felt like it was right next to us... you could feel it in the car. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said there were no immediate reports of anyone injured on the ground. Authorities haven't confirmed what caused the crash or identified the people on board. Steve Arroyo, an aviation safety expert, told the Associated Press that ice and turbulence could have caused the plane to stall. What have officials said? The FAA said the aircraft departed Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Texas and was heading to North Eleuthera Airport in the Bahamas when the crash took place. The FAA said it was investigating and would provide further updates. DeSantis told reporters during a Sunday briefing that there were no reports of anyone on the ground being injured despite a lot of debris that was strewn over a pretty significant distance. It was a cataclysmic plane crash, DeSantis said. It looked like a missile going down and left a big crater on the side of the road. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy called the crash a horrific tragedy and said the FAA and Department of Transportation would be investigating the incident. What did eyewitnesses say? Anthony Blackmon, who lives around 500 feet from the site of the crash, told NBC Miami that debris from the crash struck his home. Debris was everywhere, he said. Debris hit my house. Everything was on fire. The road was on fire. I've always seen it on the news, never thought it would happen so close to somebody like how it happened today. Adam Itayem told WPTV , It sounded like a loud boom. I thought it was thunder, adding, I saw a big crater in the ground and water coming out of the crater and a big fire too. I heard and felt the boom, Andrew Mannino told CNN , saying he saw a large black cloud immerse in the air, adding, The power immediately went out and is still out. Around 600 people were evacuated by Palm Beach County authorities while federal officials investigate the crash. We're waiting for someone to give us answers about what we're going to do, because they're not even letting us into the community to get our clothes, local resident Jesus Solorzano told WPTV. This article originally appeared on Yahoo News at https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/article/learjet-plane-crash-in-florida-kills-all-9-on-board-what-we-know-111242550.html
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Highlights: Anthony Nolan and DATRI recruit 10,000 additional Indian stem cell donors. Rajasthan and Gujarat identified as key regions for donor recruitment. Eight in 10 newly recruited donors have tissue types absent from Anthony Nolan's register. Asian patients in the UK are 1.5 times more likely to die from transplant complications within five years than white patients. A 75-year-old British Indian patient in remission credits an Indian donor with saving his life. For patients battling blood cancer, finding a suitable stem cell donor can be a matter of life and death. However, for people of South Asian heritage in the UK, the search can be particularly difficult because potential donors from minority ethnic backgrounds remain underrepresented on international stem cell registers. A new collaboration between UK stem cell transplant charity Anthony Nolan and India's largest stem cell register, DATRI, is aiming to change this. The organisations have recruited an additional 10,000 Indian donors through a three-year pilot project, offering fresh hope to British Asian patients and others around the world waiting for a potentially life-saving transplant. Funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), the initiative used data-driven recruitment to identify communities in India whose tissue types were most likely to match those needed by patients in the UK. Researchers found that north-western regions, particularly Rajasthan and Gujarat, had the highest concentration of potential donors with tissue types similar to those sought by UK patients. This was significant because DATRI's previous recruitment efforts had largely focused on southern India. The results have been encouraging. An analysis of the newly recruited donors found that eight in 10 had tissue types not currently represented on the Anthony Nolan register. UK patients searching DATRI's register were also six to seven times more likely to find a 10/10 match among the newly recruited donors than among the rest of DATRI's existing register. Website Why is finding a stem cell donor harder for South Asian patients? A stem cell transplant can offer a potentially curative treatment for people with certain blood cancers and blood disorders. However, success depends on finding a donor with closely matching human leukocyte antigen (HLA) tissue types. Patients are generally more likely to find a suitable unrelated donor from someone with a similar ethnic background. This makes the lack of diversity in global donor registers a significant challenge. According to Anthony Nolan, two-thirds of registered stem cell donors worldwide are from Europe and North America, while only 16 per cent of potential donors across aligned UK registers come from minority ethnic backgrounds. The consequences can be serious. Research by Anthony Nolan found that Asian patients in the UK have poorer survival rates following stem cell transplants than white patients. Asian cancer patients are 1.5 times more likely to die from complications within five years of a donor transplant. Dr James Robinson, director of bioinformatics at Anthony Nolan and leader of the study, said the underrepresentation of South Asian donors, alongside long-standing health inequalities, meant these patients were more likely to struggle to find a match and experience poorer outcomes following transplantation. He said targeted recruitment and international collaboration could help diversify the global donor pool and improve patients' chances of finding an unrelated matched donor. Indian donors have already helped save lives The impact of the initiative is already being felt beyond the UK. Ten donors recruited through the project have gone on to donate stem cells to patients in India. One patient who understands the importance of finding a suitable match is 75-year-old Pradeep Thatai from Kent, who was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia following a routine blood test and bone marrow biopsies. After undergoing intensive chemotherapy, he was told that a stem cell transplant offered his best chance of a cure. In July 2022, he received a transplant from an Indian donor. Pradeep recalled being warned that his Indian heritage could make finding a donor more difficult. I was expecting it to take months or even years, but within a few weeks I was told there was a 100% match for me a donor based in India, he said. Now four years on from his transplant, Pradeep is in full remission. He said: I feel so grateful to my donor. He lives on the other side of the world to me, but if it wasnt for him, I wouldnt be here today. He added that the recruitment of another 10,000 Indian donors could help people facing the same uncertainty he once experienced. More work needed to address health inequalities While increasing donor diversity is an important step, Anthony Nolan says the challenge goes beyond recruitment. The charity is also researching ways to improve transplant survival rates and understand the reasons behind persistent health inequalities. Yasmin Sheikh, head of policy and public affairs at Anthony Nolan, said international partnerships were helping improve the chances of minority ethnic patients finding suitable unrelated donors, but further work was needed to address inequalities in treatment outcomes. DATRI's CFO, Claudia Rutt, said the initiative demonstrated how technology and data could help identify communities where donor recruitment could make the greatest difference. With 10,000 additional donors recruited and patients already benefiting from the initiative, the collaboration offers a promising example of how international cooperation can help bridge gaps in healthcare. For South Asian families waiting for a life-saving match, a more diverse donor register could make the difference between waiting and finding a second chance at life.
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Against South Delhi Superstarz: Samaira Raghav was not supposed to be watching the Womens Premier League (WPL) auction. Her parents had asked her to stay away from seeing live feed of the auction proceedings happening in Kochi last week. They feared the weight of hope would be too much for a 16-year-old to carry, in case she doesn't find any takers. A day before the auction, Samaira was one of four late entries that took the WPL 2027 auction pool from 146 to 150 players. She learnt about it from an Instagram story, and then from her mother. My mom quickly messaged me that, I think you are in the auction list now, Samaira recalled in an exclusive conversation with IANS on Monday. Five minutes before her name came up, she switched the feed on anyway at her hotel room in Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh, where she is currently playing the U19 Womens T20 Challengers tournament, with her Team D room-mate. Then I saw my name and the Gujarat Giants paddle go up and I was just ecstatic. Both of us screamed at the top of our lungs in the hotel room. Then after that, it was just surreal, she added. Gujarat Giants bought her at her base price of 10 lakh rupees. But for Samaira, it was the first public validation of a dream which began taking shape nine years ago. Born on January 23, 2010, Samairas tryst with sports began with 100m and 200m sprints. But my dad wanted me to try other sports as well because I was very sporty ever since I was young. At seven, her father Sunil Raghav took her to a cricket academy. The first session featured fielding, and it won over Samaira. I just enjoyed it so much. After that day, I just kept going to the academy with my own free will. My dad kind of pushed me into cricket. But from there, I just took over. Sunil played as a leg-spinner until college, before committing to studies, including pursuing an MBA from IIM Calcutta. Sunil later went on to scale technologies at Dow Chemicals, Dr Reddys Laboratories and Total (Arkema Global) in USA and India. I think it was his wish for himself to play cricket at India level. But he could not fulfill it. So, he kind of sees it in me now and I am working on it, said Samaira. Samairas mother, Puja Jain, spent a decade at McKinsey & Company. She rose to partner and co-led its sustainability practice, as well as holds two US patents from research at Penn State University and Dow Chemicals. Today the couple run ElementRe, which specialises in end-to-end lithium-ion battery recycling solutions. While Puja is the CEO, Sunil acts as CTO. In cricket, Samaira started out mainly as a batter. During the Covid-19 lockdown, batting was impossible in their housing society in Gurugram, so Sunil got time to develop her leg-spin skills. We would just go down in our society and I would start bowling. He taught me the basics and from there, I kind of picked up my bowling skills from my dad. As Samaira grew, Sunil stepped back. When I was a bit younger, I wasn't that independent. But after a few years, he let me be independent. I would go and come back by metro. Since then, he has been around. But he just leaves me on his own now. Samaira now trains under Dipti Dhyani, currently the head coach of Delhi's senior women's team, at the City Cricket Academy in Hauz Khas, which is affiliated to the Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) and plays under the name Sonnet. It was there that her role changed. As a child she opened the batting. But playing alongside the seniors, Samaira was pushed down the order. Her coaches had one piece of advice: if she gets batting late, she needs to hit sixes. They told me that I should probably develop the skill to hit sixes. So, from there, we started working on it. After that, I would just go and finish matches and everything. I would not feel that much pressure while doing it. That is why I just picked it from there and I really enjoy it, she said. She also saw where womens cricket was rapidly going more towards power-hitting and six-hitting skills. In the earlier days, there was more of grounded cricket. But now, the game has changed. The formats have become shorter and everybody is focussing more on power hitting in sixes. I also thought I would also learn and go with whatever trend is going on. Then, I know it will help me in the future as well if I am hitting sixes. Her role models are two of India's best-known finishers: former captain MS Dhoni and wicketkeeper-batter Richa Ghosh. Obviously, there is MSD. Richa Ghosh now, she is really amazing, said Samaira. The work showed this year in the Women's Delhi Premier League (DPL), where Samaira played for North Delhi Strikers. Against South Delhi Superstarz, Samairas 32 off 26 balls, with two fours and a six, helped her side win by two runs. Against East Delhi Riders, she made an unbeaten 34 off 21 balls and won the game with a six off the penultimate delivery. We took it till the end (against East Delhi). I just thought that I can't really lose from this point. I have to win this. I have come so far in this match. At that ball, I think our bowlers started coming in as batters. There were no more batters that could hit sixes. So, at that ball, I thought we needed a boundary anyhow. Then, I would go for a six only because if I ran a single, then we would probably lose the match. Its because the last batter would not be able to hit a six. After that, I just went for it. Thankfully, it connected and then went for a six, she recalled. The pattern has led to Samaira being in good form. Playing for Delhi in the Under-19 Women's T20 Trophy, she scored 162 runs in seven innings at a strike rate of 216. She was out only three times, while averaging 54, and hitting 14 fours and 12 sixes. In the Under-19 Women's T20 Challenger Trophy, against Team A, Team D side was reeling at 27/3 after eight overs. Samaira came in and hit 78 off 44 balls, hitting six fours and as many sixes, and carried them to 137/6. Against Team B, chasing at more than 10 runs an over, she made an unbeaten 24 off 12 balls, with two fours and as many sixes. In between, Samaira found time to attend two WPL trials - for Mumbai Indians in Mumbai and for Gujarat Giants in Bengaluru. offered only an open net session. Bengaluru was different. At Mumbai Indians, we had an open net session. I could not really get a chance to talk to the coaches. Gujarat Giants, however, they really took notice of me and my six-hitting abilities there in the camp. All of them gave me really positive feedback and a few points to work on which I am working on now. They also took notice of my bowling there. So, the bowling coach, PT, Pravin (Tambe) sir, he really saw that I could also bowl and I had good potential to be a bowler as well. That's why I think now they've picked me. But it was amazing to be part of that camp, she said. Her fielding skills too were noticed by GG coaching staff. We just had one match simulation. I think I stopped one or two boundaries. I don't know if it was that noticeable, but I gave my 100 percent. People who watched her over two days of trials said she struck the ball as hard as anyone present, and that her fielding stood out as compared to other players. Samaira credits the DDCA, and its president Rohan Jaitley, for helping women players get a noticeable platform via DPL. I have been so grateful to DDCA, honestly. They have given us so many opportunities for youngsters to showcase their talent. Now WPL scouts are coming in to watch our games and then kids are getting selected. This time, I think 4-5 people from Delhi are in the WPL. It really makes a difference. So, I am really grateful to DDCA. Rohan Jaitley sir has made so many efforts for women to also be at the same level as men. Like, giving them the same opportunities, playing in the same field and I am really grateful to them. They have actually given us so much exposure. She knows how quickly praise can unsettle a young player. I always think about my roots and where I have come from and where I am now. It really humbles me a lot. I think about those low times that I had when nobody was there except my family and my coaches. It really just makes me feel so much gratitude for everybody who has been there. Her parents, she says, are proud but rarely show it. I think its because they don't show it to me because then they think that I will be really happy about it and not focus on other things. So, they just want to keep me grounded. That's why they just act normal. When nerves build, she dabbles in painting and drawing. Music calms her too - before every match, the last song she hears before stepping off the bus and playing a game has to be 52 Bars by Punjabi singer Karan Aujla. The pure wisdom in young blood reflects in Samairas Instagram bio: Love to play cricket. Beneath it sits a line from the legendary Rahul Dravid You dont play for revenge but play for respect and pride. Samairas next test may pull her away from the WPL, if she is picked for the Under-19 World Cup. But Samaira does not see a conflict, as it will be the first step towards fulfilling her fathers dream. If I also get to be in the U19 World Cup squad, it would actually be so amazing. I feel like I have a duty to my country if I get selected in the U19 World Cup. But right now, all I am thinking about is I just keep performing wherever I go and God will look after the rest. Samairas next test may pull her away from the WPL, if she is picked for the Under-19 World Cup. But Samaira does not see a conflict, as it will be the first step towards fulfilling her fathers dream. Also Read: Special Cricket Stories Article Source: IANS
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R Madhavan is gearing up for an intriguing horror film under the direction of Vishal Furia, following his compelling role in 13B. This project seeks to deliver an unprecedented horror experience for Indian viewers. Vishal has touted Madhavan as the ideal choice for this endeavor, given his remarkable prior performances. Both artists are enthusiastic about this fresh collaboration. Recently, Madhavan also appeared in the Tamil biopic GDN.
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Trending Topics auf Google als bevorzugte Nachrichtenquelle festlegen. Die mchtigsten KI-Konzerne der Welt wurden in den App-Store-Charts zeitweise von einem Vater und seiner Tochter aus Vorarlberg []
Erik Ten Hag points out where he realised it was 'over' for Cristiano Ronaldo
Former Manchester United head coach Erik Ten Hag has been quite active in interviews of the late former coach of the Red Devils. He had an unfortunate exit from the club after he was sacked...
Protests Cannot Paralyse Delhi: CAIT Urges LG to Shift Demonstration Sites to Outskirts
Asserting that the right to protest cannot become a right to paralyse the capital, the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) has written to Delhi Lieutenant Governor Taranjit Singh Sandhu, urging him to designate protest sites on the outskirts of the city. The traders body emphasised that while peaceful assembly is an integral part of [] The post Protests Cannot Paralyse Delhi: CAIT Urges LG to Shift Demonstration Sites to Outskirts appeared first on Pragativadi I Latest Odisha News in English I Breaking News .
Ramayana: Ranbir Kapoor breaks silence on trolling and criticism
Ahead of Ramayana's release, Ranbir Kapoor has broken his silence on the criticism and trolling surrounding the film, especially its songs. The actor had a Kishore Kumar reference while addressing the trolling
Aurionpro Solutions posts 16% revenue growth in Q2, but profits slide
The margin pressure stems from expenses growing faster than revenue. Total expenses rose 20.3% year-on-year in Q2
Ajit Doval, Vietnam leaders agree to deepen security and defence ties
Ajit Doval, Vietnam leaders agree to deepen security and defence ties
Bryan Johnson Calls Music A Longevity Therapy, Explains Its Health Benefits
The findings provide an explanation for Johnson's post, highlighting music as a possible way to support stress reduction.
Odia-origin IT Professional In US Mayoral Race
Santosh Sahu contests Milpitas election, promises better governance, transparency and responsible urban development
West Asia conflict: China's Foreign Minister pushes for dialogue
Dialogue and negotiation are the way to resolve West Asia conflicts, Chinese FM told Ali Bagheri Kani, the Deputy Secretary of the Iran Supreme National Security Council
CM Omar Abdullah visits Shiv Market, meets affected shopkeepers
The 2026 US midterm elections are set to take place on November 3, 2026, with voting varying by state. Polling hours and ballot submission deadlines will be influenced by local regulations. Election night will kick off the reporting of results, but official affirmations could take longer. Tight races may result in delayed announcements due to close margins or mail-in ballots. Voters should refer to state election websites for credible updates.
Asa Tribe barred from England Lions tour under Ebola rules after Kenya trip
