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Hundreds of police guard Indian capital ahead of opposition protest

NEW DELHI, Oct 6 (Reuters) – Hundreds of security personnel fanned out on Tuesday in the heart of the Indian capital, with barricades thrown ​up ahead of an opposition march to demand the ‌resignation of the election chief over a controversial revision of voter lists. Parties opposing Prime Minister Narendra Modi and member of the popular ‘cockroach’ youth movement protested against ​Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar after the Indian Express newspaper reported ​divisions in the poll body last month. The reported differences ⁠over the lists and registration procedures stoked concern about the ​commission’s neutrality. Television showed hundreds of security personnel,

Indian states seek extra power to avoid outages as nighttime supply tightens, officials say

NEW DELHI, Oct 6 (Reuters) – Several Indian states are seeking ​additional power allocations from the federal government to avoid outages as weak hydropower output and maintenance ‌at some plants have reduced electricity supply during the night, two federal government officials said. Rajasthan and Gujarat, among India’s leading renewable-energy states, have sought additional supplies, along with other states including Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Union Territory ​Delhi, the officials said. The federal government typically has access to about 14 to 15 gigawatts of electricity ​from coal and hydropower plants that it can allocate to

Why endometriosis pain can continue after treatment

Liverpool, Oct 6 (Conversation) Treatment for endometriosis can bring relief, but some women continue to have pelvic pain even after hormone treatment or surgery. For those who have spent years seeking help, continuing pain can be distressing and difficult to understand. Why does this happen? Sometimes endometriosis remains or returns. But pain can also involve other conditions, and changes in how the nervous system responds to signals from the body. Understanding these different contributors can help guide further treatment. Endometriosis affects an estimated one in ten women of reproductive age worldwide. It happens when tissue similar to the lining of

How pond algae led to a Nobel prize and a new way to study the brain

Manchester, Oct 6 (Conversation) Scientists who worked out how to control brain cells with light have won this year’s Nobel prize in physiology or medicine. Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel were honoured for their research into “light-gated ion channels and optogenetics”. Peter Hegemann, at Humboldt University of Berlin, and Georg Nagel, at the University of Würzburg, wanted to understand how a tiny, single-celled alga called Chlamydomonas senses light. Light-sensing is not unique to animals with eyes: organisms throughout the living world use light to detect their surroundings and respond to changes in their environment. Even single-cell organisms have

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