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  • ‘A young fella like me doesn’t want to make traditional paintings’: how Indigenous art swept the UK | Indigenous art

    ‘A young fella like me doesn’t want to make traditional paintings’: how Indigenous art swept the UK | Indigenous art

    Seemingly out of nowhere, Indigenous art is everywhere. We’ve gone decades – centuries, really – in this country with barely any exhibitions dedicated to the work of Indigenous artists, but recently, everything’s changed. Galleries, museums and institutions across the UK are hosting shows by artists from communities in South America, Australia, the US and Europe at an unprecedented rate.

    Tate Modern in London is putting on its first-ever major solo show by a First Nation Australian artist in July, with a Sámi artist from Norway taking over the Turbine Hall in October. There are shows by Native American artists at Camden Art Centre in London and Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket Gallery, while painters and weavers from the Amazon and Argentina are coming to Manchester’s Whitworth and Bexhill-on-Sea’s De La Warr Pavilion.

    Speculative apparatus 2 for the work of nohkompan by Duane Linklater. Photograph: Courtesy Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver. Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid.

    This explosion in attention is at least partly thanks to the 2024 Venice Biennale. The most recent edition of the art world’s ultimate taste-making event was a big, bold celebration of Indigenous art on a scale most western audiences had never encountered before. It was, quite appropriately and relatively humorously, called Foreigners Everywhere.

    The usual Jeff Koons-ian glitz, hazy figuration, hyper-academic conceptualism and postmodern abstraction of the contemporary art world was swapped for tapestries from South America, mythological drawings from northern Canada and swirling, mesmerising paintings from rural Australia.

    One Golden Lion, the Biennale’s top prize, was awarded to Kamilaroi/Bigambul Australian artist Archie Moore, who created a dizzyingly celestial family tree, detailing 65,000 years of ancestry in chalk on black walls – a near endless journey through familial time and space.

    The other Golden Lion went to Mataaho Collective, a group of Māori women from New Zealand, for an installation of crisscrossing strands of fabric straps that cast interlocking shadows as you entered the main exhibition. Arguably the greatest accolades in art, both awarded to Indigenous artists.

    Which isn’t to say that all of this attention and praise is a totally new phenomenon. “Australian First Nations’ art has been receiving international attention for decades and is no longer considered just a niche market or as specialised art,” says Kelli Cole, a Warumungu and Luritja curator who’s organising Tate Modern’s big summer celebration of the art of the late Emily Kam Kngwarray.

    Aboriginal art and its distinctive dot painting-style first started making waves in the wider art world in the 1970s, and has steadily grown in popularity – and acceptance – ever since. Kngwarray’s huge, seemingly abstract paintings and textiles (also currently on display in a smaller exhibition at Pace Gallery in London) have all the hallmarks of what audiences associate with Aboriginal art: dots and lines in bright whites, earthy ochres and sun-drenched yellows, intersecting and weaving together to create dreamy, hallucinatory visions of wide open terrain and ancestral lands, or what Aboriginal people call “Country”.

    Gorgeous, chaotic … Sin título (Untitled) by Santiago Yahuarcani. Photograph: Crisis Gallery/© Santiago Yahuarcani

    For a lot of viewers, part of the appeal of Aboriginal art is the superficial similarities to western abstraction, but the work has deeper meaning. “The dot painting style is a sophisticated visual language derived from Country. It’s a practice informed by generations of deep knowledge, designed to communicate vital information,” says Cole. “For First Nations people, Country is not just land; it’s a living entity, encompassing spiritual, social and geographical origins, inextricably linked to identity and responsibility. Artists like Kngwarray visually articulate this profound connection, inviting global audiences to understand art not as detached objects, but as expressions of custodianship, belonging and a continuous reciprocal relationship with ancestral lands.”

    Younger Indigenous Australian artists, however, have moved away from the more traditional approach of painters such as Kngwarray. “I have a lot of respect for the old people – their strong culture, their knowledge and their art – but a young fella like me doesn’t want to make traditional paintings,” says Vincent Namatjira, a Western Aranda artist whose satirical, political approach to portraiture has seen him receive both praise (he was the first Indigenous winner of the Archibald prize for Australian portraiture) and a hefty amount of controversy.

    He comes from a long line of artists – his great-grandfather was the hugely influential watercolourist Albert Namatjira – and uses his joyful, colourful portraits to lampoon the wealthy and powerful, taking aim at British royalty, Captain Cook and Australian billionaires (one of whom, mining magnate Gina Rinehart, tried to have his “unflattering” portrait of her removed from an exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia last year and “permanently disposed of”).

    Namatjira also uses his work to celebrate important figures in his community. “For me, portraying these Indigenous heroes is about equal recognition. I want to make sure that Indigenous leaders are properly recognised and acknowledged. My three daughters are all growing up now and I want them, and other Aboriginal kids, to be able to see these strong examples of Indigenous leadership, to feel proud and empowered.”

    ‘Unflattering’ …. a portrait of Gina Rinehart donated to NGA and a portrait of Gina Rinehart by Australian artist Vincent Namatjira Composite: National Gallery of Australia / EPA

    His political approach is one that resonates with a lot of Indigenous North American artists. Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith – a citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes in Montana who died earlier this year – currently has a show at Stephen Friedman Gallery in London, and an exhibition due to open at Fruitmarket in Edinburgh in November. Her work combined pop appropriation, mixed-media modernism and Indigenous culture “to remind viewers that Native Americans are still alive”.

    Duane Linklater, an Omaskêko Ininiwak artist from Ontario, Canada, with a show opening at Camden Art Centre this month, makes minimal installations intended to “create space for Indigenous presence in every moment”. Art, for many Indigenous people, is a tool of resistance, and a way of affirming their existence.

    Claudia Alarcón is an Indigenous artist from the La Puntana community of Wichí people in northern Argentina, where she leads a collective called Silät, bringing together 100 female weavers to create colourful tapestries filled with references to animals and nature. There are footprints, eyes, trees, all arranged into stunning, abstract geometric compositions. Their work is on show at Cecilia Brunson Projects in London and the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill.

    Claudia Alarcón and Silät Tayhin at De La Warr Pavilion. Photograph: Claudia Alarcón & Silät: Tayhin, 2025, Installation View, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-On-Sea. Photography: Rob Harris

    “We chose the name Silät because it is a word in our language which can be translated as ‘message’ or ‘announcement’,” she says. “For us, it is a message of presence. It is a manifestation, like a whisper, of the strength of our knowledge. Our weavings are a proclamation that we continue to defend our memory, our territory, united. Indigenous existence is constantly under threat. We are walking a new path, telling new stories, but all of this is part of the long-standing defence of our culture, which is always present. Always.”

    Defence is important, because Indigenous lands are under critical threat from exploitative commercial parties, and also more widely from climate change. Santiago Yahuarcani – a leader of the Aimeni clan of the Uitoto in Peru whose exhibition at the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester opens this month – addresses that threat head-on in his work, with gorgeous, chaotic canvases that paint nature in a constant, violent battle with man, lamenting the brutal destruction of the Amazon, and calling desperately for change.

    It’s an approach shared by Norwegian Sámi artist Máret Ánne Sara, whose previous work has seen her place a pile of bloodstained, bullet-pierced reindeer skulls outside the Norwegian parliament. She will be taking on the Turbine Hall commission at Tate Modern in October. “I fear the path we’re currently walking globally, as a human species, is failing,” she says. “The understanding that nature sustains life is fading from human consciousness. I’m trying to puncture the reality that we’ve been sold. I believe that Indigenous philosophy can offer collective strategies to protect life for the future; to rethink and re-understand our place within a larger system.”

    Lumping such an incredibly diverse array of artists into one big, sweeping “Indigenous art” bracket is obviously problematic. But there are themes that connect these communities, and to an extent their art, around the world. “I see myself as part of something larger. I know there are other groups, with other languages, who are my brothers and sisters, with whom we share a history of struggle, and also of pain,” says Alarcón. “What matters most is to keep fighting for our rights and our memories, which are also the rights of our territory.”

    Whether in Norway, Peru, Canada or Australia, Indigenous artists are united not just by a shared connection to the land and its custodianship, but by having survived centuries of colonial subjugation, capitalist exploitation and ongoing climate annihilation. Proof of their endurance will be written across the walls of galleries across the UK this year, in powerful, political and often incredibly beautiful art.

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  • Earth’s weather satellites just spent 10 years watching Venus — here’s what they found

    Earth’s weather satellites just spent 10 years watching Venus — here’s what they found

    Imaging data from Japan’s Himawari-8 and -9 meteorological satellites have been successfully used to monitor temporal changes in Venus’ cloud-top temperature, revealing unseen patterns in the temperature structure of various waves. A team led by the University of Tokyo collated infrared images from 2015-25 to estimate brightness temperatures on day to year scales. The results demonstrate that meteorological satellites can serve as additional eyes to access the Venusian atmosphere from space and complement future observations from planetary missions and ground-based telescopes.

    The Himawari-8 and -9 satellites, launched in 2014 and 2016, respectively, were developed to monitor global atmospheric phenomena through use of their multispectral Advanced Himawari Imagers (AHIs). The University of Tokyo team led by visiting researcher Gaku Nishiyama saw the opportunity to use the cutting-edge sensor data for spaceborne observations of Venus, which is coincidentally captured by the AHIs near the Earth’s rim.

    Observing temporal temperature variations in the cloud tops of Venus is essential to understand its atmospheric dynamics and related phenomena, such as thermal tides and planetary-scale waves. Obtaining data for these phenomena presents multiple challenges, as Nishiyama explained. “The atmosphere of Venus has been known to exhibit year-scale variations in reflectance and wind speed; however, no planetary mission has succeeded in continuous observation for longer than 10 years due to their mission lifetimes,” he said. “Ground-based observations can also contribute to long-term monitoring, but their observations generally have limitations due to the Earth’s atmosphere and sunlight during the daytime.”

    Meteorological satellites on the other hand appear suited to fill this gap with their longer mission lifetimes (the Himawari-8 and -9 satellites are scheduled for operation until 2029). The AHIs allow multiband infrared coverage, which has been limited in planetary missions to date, essential for retrieving temperature information from different altitudes, along with low-noise and frequent observation. Aiming to demonstrate this potential to contribute to Venus science, the team investigated the observed temporal dynamics of the Venusian atmosphere and provided a comparative analysis with previous datasets. “We believe this method will provide precious data for Venus science because there might not be any other spacecraft orbiting around Venus until the next planetary missions around 2030,” said Nishiyama.

    The team first established a data archive by extracting all Venus images from the collected AHI datasets, identifying 437 occurrences in total. Taking into account background noise and apparent size of Venus in the captured images, they were able to track the temporal variation in cloud-top temperature during the periods where the geostationary satellite, Venus and the Earth lined up in a row.

    The retrieved temporal variations in brightness temperatures were then analyzed on both year and day scales and compared for all infrared bands to investigate variability of thermal tides and planetary-scale waves. Variation in thermal tide amplitude was confirmed from the obtained dataset. The results also confirmed change in amplitude of planetary waves in the atmosphere with time, appearing to decrease with altitude. While definitive conclusions on the physics behind the detected variations were challenging due to the limited temporal resolution of the AHI data, variations in the thermal tide amplitude appeared possibly linked to decadal variation in the Venus atmosphere structure.

    In addition to successfully applying the Himawari data to planetary observations, the team was further able to use the data to identify calibration discrepancies in data from previous planetary missions.

    Nishiyama is already looking at implications of the study beyond Venus’ horizon. “I think that our novel approach in this study successfully opened a new avenue for long-term and multiband monitoring of solar system bodies. This includes the moon and Mercury, which I also study at present. Their infrared spectra contain various information on physical and compositional properties of their surface, which are hints at how these rocky bodies have evolved until the present.” The prospect of accessing a range of geometric conditions untethered from the limitations of ground-based observations is clearly an exciting one. “We hope this study will enable us to assess physical and compositional properties, as well as atmospheric dynamics, and contribute to our further understanding of planetary evolution in general.”

    Funding: This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP22K21344, 23H00150, and 23H01249, and JSPS Overseas Research Fellowship.

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  • CM Maryam Nawaz inspects Murree field hospital

    CM Maryam Nawaz inspects Murree field hospital

    Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday made a surprize visit to inspect a field hospital near Murree.
     
    During the visit, which was made while CM was returning from Murree, she thoroughly reviewed the medical facilities available at the field hospital.
     
    The chief minister interacted with the doctors and medical staff of the hospital and inquired about the operational aspects of the facility. She also interacted with patients and their families, who shared their experiences regarding the medical services provided by the hospital . The chief minister specifically asked about the free provision of medical tests and medicines.
     
    During her visit, a citizen while appreciating the initiative said that the hospital was greatly benefiting the people.

    “The field hospital is a remarkable step as it is greatly benefiting elderly women and patients”, he said.

    “We could never have imagined receiving treatment facilities at our doorstep without going through the hardship of traveling difficult routes to a hospital”, said another patient.
     
    Maryam Nawaz said that for the convenience of the public, the field hospital has now reached their doorstep. She further highlighted that over 12.5 million patients have benefited from field hospitals and Clinic on Wheels.
     
    CM reaffirmed her commitment to serving humanity as her party’s manifesto.
     
    The Chief Minister announced plans to further expand the scope of field hospitals and Clinic on Wheels.
     
    “Healthcare facilities are a fundamental right of the people, and we will fulfill our public responsibilities”, she added.

    Hundreds of citizens gathered along the roadside as soon as the news of CM’s arrival at the hospital went viral.


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  • FBR offers free mobile registration to overseas Pakistanis – ARY News

    1. FBR offers free mobile registration to overseas Pakistanis  ARY News
    2. PTA introduces tax-free mobile registration for overseas Pakistanis  The Express Tribune
    3. UAE: Pakistanis offered tax-free mobile registration when visiting home country  Khaleej Times
    4. Overseas Pakistanis can now register mobiles tax-free for 120 days; here’s how  travelsdubai.com
    5. Overseas Pakistanis offered 120-day tax-free mobile registration  Geo.tv

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  • Who are Bob Vylan? The British punks who had their US visas revoked for anti-IDF chants | Glastonbury 2025

    Who are Bob Vylan? The British punks who had their US visas revoked for anti-IDF chants | Glastonbury 2025

    Until this week, the punk-rap duo Bob Vylan were largely unknown by mainstream audiences, despite having a UK top 20 album and an award from British rock magazine Kerrang! for album of the year. Now they’ve made headlines around the world after frontman Bobby Vylan led a crowd at Glastonbury in chants of “death, death to the IDF”.

    The chant was met with widespread condemnation in the UK. Glastonbury festival said the remarks “crossed a line” and characterized the chant, which targeted the Israel Defense Forces, as antisemitic. Keir Starmer, the prime minister, said the chant was “appalling” and said groups “making threats or inciting violence” should not be given a platform.

    The incident sparked particular outrage because the chant was interpreted as a call for the death of Israeli soldiers. Frontman Bobby Vylan, in an Instagram post on Tuesday, clarified that he was not “for the death of Jews, Arabs or any other race or group of people”. He wrote: “We are for the dismantling of a violent military machine. A machine whose own soldiers were told to use ‘unnecessary lethal force’ against innocent civilians waiting for aid. A machine that has destroyed much of Gaza.”

    But Avon and Somerset police, who organize policing for Glastonbury, have launched a criminal investigation into whether the comments amounted to a criminal offense.

    On Monday, the duo, from Ipswich, in the east of England, gained international attention when US deputy secretary of state Christopher Landau said their US visas had been revoked. The group had planned a US tour in the autumn.

    “The [state department] has revoked the US visas for the members of the Bob Vylan band in light of their hateful tirade at Glastonbury, including leading the crowd in death chants,” Landau wrote on X. “Foreigners who glorify violence and hatred are not welcome visitors to our country.”

    The incident is the latest in a series of controversies over the line between criticism of Israeli action in Gaza, which the UN likens to a genocide, and antisemitism. Some see Bob Vylan’s remarks as a incitement to violence against Jews globally, while others see it as valid political speech.

    Who are Bob Vylan?

    The duo, who released their debut album in 2020, go by the aliases Bobby Vylan, the frontman, and Bobbie Vylan, the drummer. Interviewed in the Guardian in 2024 they told Jason Okundaye they deliberately obfuscate their identities to resist what they see as a surveillance state, although Bobby’s real name, Pascal Robinson-Foster, has been widely reported since this weekend.

    Robinson-Foster began his artistic career as a teenager, as a performance poet and grime artist sometimes called Nee-Hi. He was involved in local community outreach projects, mentoring young people in Ipswich and was invited to perform at the Black and Asian Police Association Conference in 2005. He began Bob Vylan after meeting his bandmate in a London bar in 2017 (neither are Bob Dylan fans; they just thought the name was funny).

    The duo make politically charged music that combines elements of punk, grime, reggae and indie. Much of it is of a sunny, rebellious disposition, with a strong anti-establishment thrust. On 2022’s Take That, for example, Robinson-Foster raps “give Churchill’s statue the rope and see if it floats … Yeah, let the bitch drown, got the gammons all feeling sick now, wipe my backside with a St George’s flag.”

    The group have tackled a number of progressive topics in their music, including food poverty, sexism, exploitative landlords and institutional racism.

    Bob Vylan at Glastonbury at the weekend. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

    But the movement for Palestinian freedom has always been central to their project. Robinson-Foster told the Guardian in 2024 he attended his first pro-Palestine protest at the age of 15 and remembers a “feeling of people coming together and using their voice”. He has criticized other bands associated with the left for not being more outspoken on Palestine.

    Bob Vylan are still an underground group with a relatively small fanbase, but they have released four albums, each more successful than the last. Earlier in 2025 they appeared at Coachella for the first time, a sign of their increasing global popularity.

    The Glastonbury set, on the West Holts stage, was supposed to be a crowning moment of this success. They were playing before Kneecap, the Irish alternative punk act with whom they share political values and an eagerness to court controversy. Many in the audience brought Palestinian flags – as they did to almost every act at the festival – and the stage’s backdrop showed messages such as “United Nations have called it a genocide. The BBC calls it a ‘conflict’.”

    On Monday, Israel killed at least 30 people at a busy Gaza cafe, and last week killed 18 more at a food distribution centre dispensing flour. Israel has killed at least 61,000 Palestinians since the Hamas terrorist attacks of 7 October, in which an estimated 1,139 Israelis were killed.

    At one point Robinson-Foster told the crowd: “Sometimes we have to get our message across with violence, because that’s the only language some people speak, unfortunately.” But it was the chants of “death to the IDF” that led Glastonbury to publicly apologize and the US state department to act.

    Why is the US state department banning musicians?

    Since the beginning of the Trump administration there has been a draconian crackdown on immigrants, with Ice agents empowered to arrest students and legal migrants on the streets. Amid the crackdown, a number of musicians have complained about increased difficulties in touring the US. In March, members of British punk rock band UK Subs were denied entry into the US, which their bassist Alvin Gibbs said he suspected was due in part to their vocal and frequent opposition to Trump.

    Also in March, Canadian artist Bells Larsen, who is trans, had to cancel a US tour after receiving legal advice that because US Citizenship and Immigration Services now only recognizes two “biological sexes – male and female” he would not be able to travel. Larsen had already changed his gender marker on his Canadian passport.

    Kneecap lost their US visas after they were dropped by their visa sponsor and booking agent Independent Artist Group (IAG). That move came after the group’s April Coachella performance, where they displayed messages such as “Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people” and “Fuck Israel. Free Palestine.” They say they are currently looking for a new visa sponsor.

    But the incident with Bob Vylan appears to be the first time the US state department has publicly announced it is banning a musical act because of political statements. The group have also been dropped by their agents.

    New York immigration attorney and music lawyer Matthew Covey told NPR that reports of “unprecedented Ice enforcement” are prompting artists to bow out of US tours.

    What have people said about the Glastonbury incident?

    As well as Glastonbury and Keir Starmer, Bob Vylan have been criticized by politicians and the BBC. Conservative shadow home secretary Chris Philp said it was “clear” the duo were “inciting violence and hatred” and should be prosecuted. In the UK, freedom of speech is not protected in the same way as the US, and incitement laws criminalise encouraging a crime.

    The UK’s chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, has condemned the BBC for streaming the performance unedited, called the group’s actions “vile Jew-hatred” and said that the group had “couch[ed] their outright incitement to violence and hatred as edgy political commentary”.

    Kneecap perform at Glastonbury at the weekend. Photograph: Maja Smiejkowska/Shutterstock

    But a number of musicians and commentators have said that the outrage is disproportionate.

    Australian punk group Amyl and the Sniffers, who also played Glastonbury, said Bob Vylan and Kneecap were being unfairly singled out when pro-Palestinian sentiment was the central theme of the 250,000-strong festival. They said: “The British media in a frenzy about Bob Vylan and Kneecap, but artists all weekend at Glastonbury, from pop to rock to rap to punk to DJs, spoke up on stage, and there were tons of flags on every streamed set. Trying to make it look like just a couple of isolated incidents and a couple of ‘bad bands’ so it appears the public isn’t as anti-genocide as it is.”

    Writing in the Guardian, columnist Owen Jones compared the chant by Vylan with the killing by Israeli forces of hundreds of Palestinians seeking food. “How morally lost is a society in which a chant against a genocidal foreign army provokes a political and media firestorm, but the intentionally starved, unarmed human beings being mowed down on the orders of the IDF high command do not?” he asked.

    Pascal-Robinson has defended the chants on Instagram, writing: “We, like those in the spotlight before us, are not the story. We are a distraction from the story. And whatever sanctions we receive will be a distraction … The more time they talk about Bob Vylan, the less time [the UK government] spend answering for their criminal inaction. We are being targeted for speaking up. We are not the first. We will not be the last. And if you care for the sanctity of human life and freedom of speech, we urge you to speak up too. Free Palestine.”

    The Guardian has contacted Bob Vylan for comment.

    This article was amended on 2 July 2025. A previous version incorrectly stated Bob Vylan released five albums.


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  • Magnetic Fields Reverse Momentum in Magnetovortical Matter

    Magnetic Fields Reverse Momentum in Magnetovortical Matter

    Angular momentum is a fundamental quantity in physics that describes the rotational motion of objects. In quantum physics, it encompasses both the intrinsic spin of particles and their orbital motion around a point. These properties are essential for understanding a wide range of systems, from atoms and molecules to complex materials and high-energy particle interactions.

    When a magnetic field is applied to a quantum system, particle spins typically align with or against the field. This well-known effect, known as spin polarization, leads to observable phenomena such as magnetization. Until now, it was widely believed that spin played the dominant role in how particles respond to magnetic fields. However, new research challenges this long-held view.

    In this vein, Assistant Professor Kazuya Mameda of Tokyo University of Science, Japan, in collaboration with Professor Kenji Fukushima of School of Science, The University of Tokyo and Dr. Koichi Hattori of Zhejiang University, found that under strong magnetic fields, the orbital motion of magnetovortical matter becomes more significant than spin effects, leading to reversing the overall direction of angular momentum. The study will be published in Physical Review Letters on July 01, 2025.

    “It was previously believed that most microscopic phenomena in a magnetic field were governed by spin angular momentum—a physical quantity characterizing the intrinsic rotational motion of microscopic particles,” explains Dr. Mameda. “However, this study found that in a strong magnetic field, orbital motion can overwhelm spin effects, reversing the direction of rotational motion from what was previously believed.”

    The researchers studied fermionic systems—specifically Dirac fermions— subjected to both strong magnetic fields and rotation. By ensuring gauge invariance and thermodynamic stability in their theoretical framework, they demonstrated that orbital contributions to bulk properties can exceed spin contributions.

    Unlike spin, which aligns with the magnetic field, the orbital angular momentum aligns according to Lenz’s law—opposite to the direction of the magnetic field. As the magnetic field intensifies, the charge density from the orbital-rotation coupling and orbital angular momentum grow twice the magnitude of their spin counterparts, but with opposite sign.

    This reversal in total angular momentum reshapes our understanding of magnetovortical matter and links its behavior to a broader class of quantum effects known as anomaly-induced transports. The findings also pave the way for simulations using lattice QCD—a powerful computational tool for studying strongly interacting particles such as quarks and gluons under extreme conditions.

    The discovery that a strong magnetic field can reverse angular momentum in quantum systems challenges established theories. It highlights the previously underestimated role of orbital motion, showing it to be more influential than spin in certain regimes. This insight could spark advances in groundbreaking technologies, particularly in orbitronics, a field dedicated to manipulating the orbital motion of electrons.

    “Total angular momentum reversal under strong magnetic fields has been overlooked across fields from materials science to astrophysics. Our findings redefine the foundational physics of modern physics and point to new frontiers in orbitronics—where controlling electron orbital motion could lead to innovative device applications,” concludes Dr. Mameda.

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  • Charge on the Go With This $18 Baseus Portable Battery Pack 4th of July Deal

    Charge on the Go With This $18 Baseus Portable Battery Pack 4th of July Deal

    Shopping for the best Fourth of July deals can be exhausting, but we’ve found one deal that you don’t need to think about. All you need to do is place your order before it’s too late — we’re that confident it’s a bargain you don’t want to miss. This deal gets you a $22 discount, slashing the price of a Baseus portable battery pack to just $18 for a limited time. You do need to clip the on-screen coupon to get the best price, so make sure to do that when ordering.

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  • Explained: What Is New ODI Rule Used In BAN VS SL And Why Umpires Are Asking Captains To Chose Ball Mid-Innings

    Explained: What Is New ODI Rule Used In BAN VS SL And Why Umpires Are Asking Captains To Chose Ball Mid-Innings

    The new rules was used for the first time in the Sri Lanka-Bangladesh 1st ODI | courtesy – screengrab

    KEY HIGHLIGHTS

    • The new rule became active from the 1st ODI between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
    • ICC have acted on the complaints of the two new balls
    • The new provision is aimed at restoring balance between bat and ball

    The International Cricket Council’s (ICC) new regulations for ODI cricket came into effect for the first time on Wednesday (July 2) during the first ODI of a three-match series between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo.

    After the 34th over of Sri Lanka’s innings, the umpire was seen asking Bangladesh’s captain Mehidy Hasan Miraz to choose between two balls. This indicated the first instance of the new provision being used as the world cricket governing body brought a change to the rule book.

    As per the new rules introduced by the ICC in the latest playing conditions, which are applicable in white-ball cricket from July 2, only one ball will be used in ODI cricket after the 34th over of the innings. This decision has come on the back of the ICC being criticised for the two-ball rule in ODI cricket, which several people like Gautam Gambhir and Ravichandran Ashwin have pointed out has taken finger spinners as well as reverse swing out of the equation while making the format more batting-friendly.

    As per the new regulations, the match will start in a similar fashion with two new balls with one from each end. However, there will only be one ball used after the 34th over of the match. At this point, the bowling team’s captain will be given a choice and be allowed to use either of the two balls in action.

    This was the most significant change in the latest playing conditions, which have also seen major changes in Test cricket that have come into action from the 2025-27 World Test Championship (WTC) cycle. After being brought into action in ODI and T20Is, a stop clock has been introduced in the longest format to act against time wasting.

    Meanwhile, the ICC have also introduced a chance to the short-run rule, as in addition to the five-run penalty, now teams can choose which batter takes a strike on the next ball.

    The lawmakers have also amended the provision for catches on the boundary line as any airborne player must make contact with the ball only inside the boundary line.


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  • Relationship Between a Novel Model of Insulin Sensitivity and Arterial

    Relationship Between a Novel Model of Insulin Sensitivity and Arterial

    Introduction

    The prevalence of diabetes, particularly type 2 diabetes (T2D), is rising globally, posing a significant public health challenge due to its various acute and chronic complications.1 Among these complications, cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) stand out as the leading cause of death in patients with T2D.2 Vascular dysfunctions, including arterial stiffness (AS) and impaired vasodilation, can emerge before the onset of severe CVDs symptoms.3 Therefore, early assessment of AS is particularly important in the management of T2D. The brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity (baPWV) is a simple, effective and non-invasive method for evaluating AS,4 and can independently predict cardiovascular risk, providing important evidence for assessing the development of CVDs in individuals.5

    Insulin resistance (IR) is considered a significant factor to AS and the progression of CVDs.6 While the euglycemic hyperinsulinemic clamp (EHC) is considered the gold standard for assessing IR,7 its invasive nature, time consuming and requirement for hospitalization limit its practical applicability. The homeostasis model assessment index (HOMA-IR) offers a simpler approach to assessing IR.8 However, it presents specific challenges for patients undergoing insulin therapy. Recently, a growing number of non-insulin-based IR surrogate markers have been proposed, including the triglyceride-glucose (TyG) index, triglyceride-to-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (TG/HDL-c) ratio, and metabolic score for insulin resistance (METS-IR).9–11 These markers have been associated with various metabolic diseases. One of our previous studies examined their relationship with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in patients with T2D, highlighting their clinical relevance in this context.12 Building on this foundation, our current study shifts the focus toward AS, a distinct yet critical cardiovascular complication in T2D. A more recent development is the natural log transformation of the glucose disposal rate (loge GDR), a non-insulin-based model to assess insulin sensitivity (IS) in T2D patients.13 The loge GDR is calculated based on body mass index (BMI), triglycerides (TG), the urinary albumin to creatinine ratio (UACR) and γ-glutamyl transferase (GGT), and it has been validated and demonstrated a strong association with CVDs and mortality rates.13 Despite these advances, no studies to date have specifically investigated the relationship between the loge GDR and AS in T2D. Based on the groundwork laid by our earlier research, this study aims to explore the novel association between loge GDR and AS, offering fresh insights into the complex interplay between IS and vascular health.

    The prevalence of non-obese T2D is gradually increasing, particularly in Asian countries.14,15 Although CVDs and other conditions have traditionally been associated with obesity and being overweight, recent evidence suggests that non-obese T2D patients may have higher all-cause and cardiovascular mortality rates.16,17 This could be attributed to factors such as increased visceral fat, impaired IS, and heightened inflammatory responses despite a normal BMI.18 Furthermore, recent studies have reported non-obese T2D patients have a comparable or even higher prevalence of AS compared to their obese counterparts18 Due to significant differences in metabolic characteristics between obese and non-obese diabetic patients, particularly regarding IS.19 And research exploring the relationship between IR surrogate markers and AS in non-obese patients with T2D remains limited. Therefore, we aim to analyze the relationship between the loge GDR and AS in this population.

    Methods

    Study Design and Population

    We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of patients aged ≥ 18 years with T2D from the Department Endocrinology of Linyi People’s Hospital, from January 2020 to March 2023. The exclusion criteria were (1) subjects missing key anthropometric measurements (height and weight); (2) subjects who had severe liver and kidney dysfunctions; (3) subjects with a history of angina, myocardial infarction and cerebrovascular accident; (4) subjects who had not undergone the baPWV tests or whose clinical data were incomplete, including GGT, TG and UACR; (5) subjects with BMI ≥ 24 kg/m2. Ultimately, a total of 790 non-obese patients with T2D were eventually included (Figure 1).

    Figure 1 The flow chart of study participants selection.

    It is important to note that a portion of the participants included in the current study were also part of our previous work, which primarily investigated the association between IR markers and NAFLD in the overall T2D population. In terms of exclusion criteria, the previous study mainly excluded confounding factors that could affect the diagnosis and analysis of fatty liver disease.12 For the overlapping populations, we further compared differences in baseline characteristics and various IR indices between the two studies, and the results did not show significant differences, suggesting that the results of this study are relatively stable and have some replication.

    Demographic Information

    The sex, age, diabetes duration and self-reported current cigarette smoking and drinking status were collected.

    Physical Examinations

    According to unified standards, the height, weight, systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) were measured and collected. The bioelectrical impedance analysis (Omron DUALSCAN HDS-2000, Kyoto, Japan) was used to measure the visceral fat area (VFA) and subcutaneous fat area (SFA).

    Each participant’s baPWV was measured using the automated system BP-203RPE III (Omron Healthcare Co., Japan) by trained technicians. The device simultaneously recorded pulse waveforms from the brachial and tibial arteries and automatically calculated baPWV values. Before measurement, participants were required to rest in a supine position for at least 5 minutes to ensure hemodynamic stability. Subsequently, appropriately sized cuffs were placed on both upper arms and ankles, and the device was operated according to standard protocols to obtain waveform signals and compute baPWV values.20 To enhance measurement accuracy, this study analyzed data in cases where there was a significant difference between left and right baPWV values and assessed each side’s baPWV separately. AS was defined as baPWV ≥1800 cm/s.

    Laboratory Measurements

    Following an overnight fast, blood samples were collected and analyzed in the morning for alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), GGT, TG, HDL-c, total cholesterol (TC), low density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-c), serum creatinine (Scr), uric acid (UA), Cystatin C (Cys C), hemoglobin (Hb), fasting blood glucose (FBG) and glycosylated haemoglobin (HbA1c), fasting insulin (FINS) and UACR. A comprehensive overview of the tools and methods utilized in this research is available in our earlier publication.12 Non-obese was defined as BMI < 24 kg/m2.

    Parameter Calculation

    1. BMI = weight (kg) / height2 (m2);

    2. eGFR = 175 * Scr (mg/dL) −1.234 * age −0.179 * (0.79, if female);21

    3. HOMA-IR = FBG (mmol/L) * FINS (µU/mL)/22.5;8

    4. TyG index = ln [TG (mg/dL) × FBG (mg/dL)/2];10

    5. TG/HDL-c ratio = TG (mmol/L)/HDL-c (mmol/L);11

    6. METS-IR = ln [(2*FBG (mg/dL)) + TG (mg/dL)] *BMI)/(Ln [HDL-c (mg/dL)]);9

    7. Loge GDR = 5.3505–0.3697 * loge (GGT, IU/L) – 0.2591 * loge (TG, mg/dL) – 0.1169 * loge (UACR, mg/g) – (0.0279*BMI, kg/m2).13

    Statistical Analysis

    Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS 26.0 (SPSS Inc, Chicago, USA) and R (version 4.3.2). Data were presented as means ± SD for normally distributed variables and as medians (interquartile ranges) for non-normally distributed variables. Independent-Samples T test and Mann–Whitney U-test were used for comparisons of normally and abnormally distributed continuous variables between two groups, respectively. Categorical variables were presented as percentage (%) and were compared by Chi-square test. For normally distributed data, an Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Student-Newman-Keuls tests were used for multiple and pairwise comparisons between the loge GDR tertiles groups, while the Kruskal–Wallis one-way ANOVA test was used for abnormally distributed data. Pearson correlation and multiple linear stepwise regression analyses were used to evaluate the independent correlations of baPWV. Univariate logistic regression analysis and directed acyclic graphs (DAG) were used to guide the selection of covariates for AS. The DAG was constructed using the dagitty package. And the identified minimal adjustment set includes age, BMI, diabetes duration, FBG, TG, HOMA-IR, METS-IR, TG/HDL-c ratio and TyG index. Logistic regression analysis was used to analyze the independent correlates of AS. Net reclassification improvement (NRI) analysis was performed using the survIDINRI package in R to assess the incremental predictive value of loge GDR compared with other IR markers for identifying AS. Statistical differences were defined by P-value (two-tailed) less than 0.05.

    Results

    Clinical and Biochemical Characteristics

    The clinical and biochemical characteristics of the participants are shown in Table 1. A total of 790 non-obese patients with T2D were enrolled in our study. The subjects were divided into two groups including non-AS group (baPWV < 1800cm/s) and AS group (baPWV ≥ 1800cm/s). Compared with the non-AS group, the age, diabetes duration, VFA, SFA, SBP, DBP, AST, GGT, UA, Scr, UACR and Cys C were increased in AS group, but the HbA1c, eGFR, Hb and loge GDR were markedly reduced (all P < 0.05). There were no obvious differences in BMI, TC, LDL-c, HDL-c, TG, FBG, FINS, ALT, HOMA-IR, TG/HDL-c ratio, TyG index, METS-IR and the percentages of males, smoking and drinking between the two groups (all P > 0.05).

    Table 1 Clinical and Biochemical Characteristics by Presence of AS

    Then, according to tertiles of loge GDR, the participants were divided into three groups: T1 (0.25–1.98), T2 (1.98–2.28) and T3 (2.28–3.12) (Table 2). As the loge GDR tertiles increased, the age, diabetes duration, BMI, VFA, SFA, SBP, DBP, TC, LDL-c, TG, FINS, HbA1c, ALT, AST, GGT, UA, Scr, UACR, Cys C, HOMA-IR, TyG index, TG/HDL-c ratio, METS-IR, baPWV, the percentages of smoking, drinking and AS were gradually decreased, while the HDL-c, Hb and eGFR were gradually elevated (all P < 0.05). The FBG and the percentages of males were no significant different between the three groups (both P > 0.05).

    Table 2 Comparison of Variables According to the Tertiles of Loge GDR

    Correlation Between baPWV or AS and Each Variable by Univariate Analysis

    As shown in Table 3, a Pearson correlation analysis was performed to analyze the association between baPWV and each variable. The results displayed that the baPWV was positively related to age, diabetes duration, VFA, SFA, SBP, DBP, TG, FINS, GGT, UA, UACR, Cys C and TG/HDL-c ratio, while negatively to the Hb, HbA1c, eGFR and loge GDR (all P < 0.05). BMI, TC, LDL-c, HDL-c, FBG, ALT, AST, HOMA-IR, TyG index and METS-IR were not correlated with baPWV (all P > 0.05).

    Table 3 The Correlation Between baPWV or AS and Different Variables by Univariate Analysis

    Moreover, univariate regression analysis was conducted to identify the factors associated with AS. The results showed that AS was positively related to the age, diabetes duration, VFA, SFA, SBP, DBP, FINS, AST, UA, UACR, Cys C, and negatively to the Hb, HbA1c, eGFR and loge GDR (all P < 0.05). No significant relationships existed between AS and BMI, TC, LDL-c, TG, HDL-c, FBG, ALT, GGT, HOMA-IR, TyG index, TG/HDL-c ratio, METS-IR and the percentages of males, smoking and drinking (all P > 0.05).

    Independent Variables of baPWV by Multiple Linear Stepwise Regression Analysis

    The covariates for multivariate linear regression analysis were determined based on the results of Pearson correlation analysis and previous literature reports. A multiple linear stepwise regression analysis was conducted to analyze the independent correlations of baPWV (Table 4). The age, diabetes duration, VFA, SFA, SBP, DBP, TG, FINS, GGT, UA, UACR, Cys C, TG/HDL-c ratio, Hb, HbA1c, eGFR and loge GDR were set as the dependent variables based on the results of Pearson correlation analysis, and the results displayed that the age, SBP and loge GDR fit a regression model (all P < 0.05).

    Table 4 Multivariate Linear Regression Analysis with baPWV as the Dependent Variable

    Independent Correlations of AS by Logistic Regression Analysis

    Finally, AS was served as the dependent variable, and based on the results of univariate logistic regression analysis, the DAG diagram (Figure 2), and previous literature, the following variables were included as independent variables: age, diabetes duration, VFA, SFA, SBP, DBP, FINS, HbA1c, AST, UA, eGFR, UACR, Cys C, Hb, BMI, FBG, TG, HOMA-IR, TG/HDL-c ratio, TyG index, METS-IR, loge GDR and the percentages of smoking and drinking. A logistic regression analysis was performed to analyze the independent correlates of AS (Table 5), and the results found that after adjusting for the other variables, the loge GDR (OR: 0.286, 95.0% CI for OR: 0.110–0.743), age (OR: 1.196, 95.0% CI for OR: 1.138–1.258), SBP (OR: 1.053, 95.0% CI for OR: 1.031–1.075) and FBG (OR: 0.886, 95.0% CI for OR: 0.792–0.990) were independently related to AS.

    Table 5 The Independent Variables for AS

    Figure 2 The DAG of identifying confounding variables.

    Predictive Value of IR Markers for AS

    To assess the incremental predictive value of various IR markers for AS, NRI analysis was performed based on logistic regression models (Table 6). All models were adjusted for potential confounders, including age, diabetes duration, VFA, SFA, SBP, DBP, FINS, HbA1c, AST, UA, eGFR, UACR, Cys C, Hb, BMI, FBG, TG, smoking and drinking. Building upon the base model without any IR marker, integrating loge GDR yielded a modest improvement in the model’s ability to reclassify patients with AS (NRI:0.043, 95% CI 0.009–0.079, P = 0.011). In contrast, building upon the base model, integrating other IR markers such as HOMA-IR (NRI:0.007, P = 0.697), TyG index (NRI:0.011, P = 0.356), TG/HDL-c ratio (NRI:0.006, P = 0.317), and METS-IR (NRI: −0.004, P = 0.568) did not significantly improve the predictive performance.

    Table 6 Analysis of the NRI for Predicting AS

    Discussion

    This cross-sectional study of non-obese patients with T2D revealed a significant negative association between the loge GDR and both baPWV and AS. Increased loge GDR tertiles corresponded with a significant reduction in baPWV and AS incidence. Furthermore, after adjusting for confounding factors, the loge GDR was independently associated with baPWV and AS.

    IR is common among diabetic patients, leading to endothelial dysfunction and inflammatory responses that contribute to AS and atherosclerosis.22 Although the EHC is considered the gold standard for assessing IS, its complexity, time consuming, and requirement for specialized personnel limit its use in large-scale clinical studies. HOMA-IR is a commonly used and simpler indicator of IR, but it relies on FINS. Previous studies have shown that fluctuations in insulin levels can be significantly influenced by an individual’s glucose tolerance and the effects of treatment. Therefore, FINS levels may not be entirely accurate for patients with T2D undergoing treatment.23,24 Recently, an increasing number of studies have explored the close association between non-insulin-based IR surrogate indicators and AS across various populations. For instance, a study in a healthy Japanese cohort found a significant correlation between the METS-IR and AS.25 A study involving 1895 participants showed a close correlation between the TyG index and the TG/HDL-c ratio with AS in hypertensive patients, while no such relationship was observed in patients with prehypertension.26 Furthermore, research on patients with T2D had indicated that the TyG index was independently and more strongly associated with the prevalence of increased AS compared to HOMA-IR.20 The relationship between non-insulin-based IR surrogate indicators with AS had also been validated in lean postmenopausal women, Chinese non-hypertensive and older subjects.27–29

    The loge GDR is a newly developed model for assessing IS in T2D, and it has been validated as a reliable EHC-based surrogate capable of capturing the variability of IS in patients with T2D well.13 The inclusion of metabolic components (GGT, UACR, BMI and TG) allows loge GDR to reflect a more comprehensive metabolic profile and potentially capturing a broader range of pathogenic mechanisms. In our study, we found that it was closely associated with IR markers as well. As the tertiles of loge GDR increased, significant reductions were observed in other IR markers, suggesting a consistent relationship between loge GDR and IS. Notably, we found that the loge GDR was independently related to baPWV and AS. This relationship remains important even after adjusting for other confounding factors including IR markers (HOMA-IR, TG/HDL-c ratio, TyG index, and METS-IR).

    The mechanisms potentially linking loge GDR to AS are likely multifactorial and may involve several key pathways. The components included in the calculation of loge GDR, including GGT, UACR, BMI and TG, may have been suggested as part of circadian syndrome.30 Recent studies indicate that circadian syndrome may be a better predictor of CVDs risk than metabolic syndrome,30 suggesting that loge GDR might reflect a disruption in circadian rhythms, potentially influencing cardiovascular health. GGT is a key marker of oxidative stress, promoting endothelial dysfunction by reducing nitric oxide bioavailability and increasing vascular inflammation, both of which contribute to arterial stiffening. TG facilitates lipid accumulation in the vascular wall, leading to foam cell formation and atherosclerosis progression. Elevated TG levels are also associated with increased production of small, dense LDL particles, which enhance oxidative stress and vascular inflammation. UACR reflects endothelial dysfunction and vascular damage, as albuminuria is linked to increased vascular permeability and low-grade inflammation, both contributing to arterial remodeling. Additionally, BMI, particularly in the context of visceral adiposity, is associated with chronic low-grade inflammation and activation of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system, further promoting vascular stiffness. These components effectively represent the key metabolic pathways leading to AS, supporting the close relationship between loge GDR and AS.31–33

    Additionally, AS is a degenerative vascular process that increases with age.34 High SBP levels may damage endothelial function, leading to progressively stiffer arteries.35 Be consistent with the above findings, we found a strong relationship between age and SBP with AS in non-obese patients with T2D. This underscores the importance of managing SBP as a modifiable risk factor for AS, particularly in this population. Interestingly, we observed a negative correlation between AS and FBG, which was inconsistent with most studies that suggested elevated FBG was a significant risk factor for AS.36 The multifaceted influencing factors of AS may help explain this phenomenon. As mentioned earlier, the average age in the AS group was significantly higher than that in the non-AS group, and some studies have suggested that older diabetic patients tend to have better blood glucose control.37

    The relationship between the novel IS index loge GDR and AS has not been extensively studied in the context of non-obese T2D. Our study is the first to observe a strong association between loge GDR and AS in non-obese patients with T2D, highlighting its potential clinical significance. Although non-obese individuals with T2D may have normal body weight, they can still exhibit significant vascular changes. Since loge GDR incorporates metabolic parameters including BMI, TG, UACR and GGT, it may reflect a broader metabolic disorder amenable to intervention than other IR markers. Importantly, logₑ GDR demonstrated the highest NRI among the evaluated IR indicators, indicating relatively better discriminatory capacity for AS. However, the overall improvement in risk prediction was modest, suggesting that its incremental value in risk stratification may be limited. Therefore, while logₑ GDR shows potential as a complementary tool for early identification of cardiovascular risk in non-obese T2D patients, its clinical utility should be interpreted with caution. Further prospective studies with larger, diverse cohorts are needed to confirm these findings and to clarify the role of logₑ GDR in improving cardiovascular risk prediction models.

    Several limitations of this study should be acknowledged. First, as with all cross-sectional studies, we cannot establish causality between loge GDR and AS. Longitudinal studies are essential to determine the temporal relationship and causal pathways between these variables. Second, using BMI < 24 kg/m² to define “non-obese” may not perfectly capture individuals with increased visceral adiposity, which is a key driver of metabolic dysfunction. Future studies could consider including measures such as waist circumference or waist-to-hip ratio, which provide more direct insight into visceral fat distribution. Lastly, this study is single-center and based on a small sample size, which may limit the generalizability of the results. Future prospective multi-center studies involving larger populations are needed to confirm these findings and further investigate the underlying mechanisms.

    Conclusion

    In conclusion, the loge GDR, as a new simple index of IS, is independently associated with AS in non-obese patients with T2D. Its inclusion in existing risk models modestly improved the identification of arterial stiffness. The potential utility of loge GDR in cardiovascular risk assessment warrants further investigation and validation in future studies.

    Ethics Approval and Consent to Participate

    The study was approved by the Human Ethics Committee of the Linyi People’s Hospital. All procedures were performed in accordance with ethical standards laid out in the Declaration of Helsinki. Informed consent was obtained from the patients.

    Acknowledgments

    Shuwei Shi is currently Department of Endocrinology, Linyi People’s Hospital Affiliated to Shandong Second Medical University, Linyi, China. This study was conducted while she was affiliated with the School of Clinical Medicine, Shandong Second Medical University, Weifang, Shandong, China. Baolan Ji and Guanqi Gao are co-corresponding authors for this study.

    Funding

    This study was supported by grants from the Postdoctoral Program of Affiliated Hospital of Jining Medical University (JYFY322152).

    Disclosure

    All authors declare that they have no competing interests in this study.

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    CM Maryam visits field hospital near Murree

    Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif paid a surprise visit to a field hospital which was set up near Mughalabad on the Expressway during her return from Murree, reported 24NewsHD TV channel on Wednesday. 

    According to the officials, she inspected healthcare facilities being provided to the public. She also inquired about the provision of free medical tests and medicines.

    The Chief Minister obtained details about the working of the field hospital from doctors and medical staff. 

    During her visit, she inquired about the operational aspects of the hospital and spoke directly with patients and their families, who shared their experiences and feedback regarding the healthcare services being provided. Patients and citizens expressed appreciation for the initiative, especially its accessibility for the elderly and underserved populations.

    Speaking on the occasion, Maryam Nawaz said the government aims to bring healthcare services directly to people’s doorsteps. “By the grace of Allah, more than 12.5 million patients have benefited so far from field hospitals and Clinic-on-Wheels,” she said.

    The Chief Minister also announced plans to expand the scope of both the field hospitals and the Clinic-on-Wheels programme across the province. Chief Minister expressed that serving humanity has always been the manifesto of the Pakistan Muslim League (N). She said that access to healthcare is a basic right of every citizen, and we will continue to fulfill our responsibilities in this regard. 


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