According to a study from Erasmus University Medical Centre in Rotterdam, pregnant women who stood for lengthy periods at work had babies whose heads were around half an inch smaller. According to Medical News Today, the study authors followed nearly 5,000 mothers during their pregnancies. About four in 10 of the women worked jobs that [...]
A vaccine for nicotine was successfully tested on mice Stacey Leasca A vaccine against nicotine addiction may soon be available. Researchers announced Wednesday in the latest issue of Science Translational Medicine that trials of the one-dose vaccine aimed at abating nicotine addiction have shown promise in mice, the Wall Street Journal reported. To conduct the [...]
Dr Diana Monteiro Every time I go out with my 4-year-old son it’s a challenge. If we go to a store he wants everything. If I refuse he will throw a tantrum. It gets embarrassing as others think I am denying him. The truth is he is just too used to getting his way. How [...]
What you eat has a lot to do with your dental health. So if you’ve noticed that you seem to be battling more cavities, decays and bad breath, you might want to recheck what you’ve been eating How often have you had to turn away as a friend leaned in closer to talk to you, [...]
Akhileshwari Ramagoud, former journalist and the current head of the Mass Communication department at Loyola Academy talks about where the subject stands in the city today Faustina Johnson feedback@postnoon.com What inspired your choice of career? I guess I was always a rebel..I wanted to do something that was not ‘regular ‘. When as an undergraduate [...]
Hyderabad, Jul 2: Andhra Pradesh Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) today arrested a history-sheeter from Nacharam locality here in connection with the cash-for-bail case, involving suspended CBI judge Pattabhirama Rao. Yadagiri alias Yadagiri Rao, one of the middlemen, who allegedly facilitated broking a deal worth Rs 10 crore for granting bail to former Karnataka Minister Gali Janardhan Reddy in Obulapuram Mining [...]
Mumbai, Jul 2: Former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan, named an accused in the Adarsh housing society scam, today continued pointing fingers at his predecessor and Union minister Vilasrao Deshmukh for decisions taken while allotting land to the controversial housing society. Chavan, who was revenue minister during Deshmukh’s tenure as chief minister from 1999 to 2003, told [...]
Human Angle Babu Gogineni In March 2011, the Indian Parliament passed the Coinage Amendments Bill, thereby making the melting or destruction of legal tender punishable by seven years of imprisonment. A coin is a medium of exchange as well as a store of value: when the value of its metal exceeds a coin’s face value, [...]
Crime may have actually paid off for a gang of thugs who threw a milkshake into the face of a woman in Palo Alto, Calif. That’s because she responded by tossing her purse into their Range Rover — which contained $2,000, PaloAltoOnline reports. The incident took place before midnight on June 24, when the woman [...]
LOS ANGELES: Californian foie gras fans stuffed themselves at gastronomic last suppers this weekend, hours before a ban on the delicacy finally comes into force after years of wrangling. But even before the Monday deadline, devotees of the prized French foodstuff — fatty liver, made by force-feeding ducks or geese — have been working on ways [...]
It’s David vs Goliath as Rajasthan take on Mumbai’s might
Kolkata: They have shown remarkable fighting spirit despite the demoralising spot-fixing scandal and the Rajasthan Royals will now look to upstage the mighty Mumbai Indians in the second qualifier here tomorrow to book, what would be, a dream final berth in the Pepsi IPL. On paper, Mumbai Indians may appear stronger but Rajasthan will be [...]
21 lawmakers back Chandigarh-born as top US judge
Washington: Ahead of an expected Senate vote on the nomination of Chandigarh-born Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth ‘Sri’ Srinivasan to a top US court, 21 lawmakers have penned their support for him. Srinivasan, 46, currently principal deputy solicitor general of the US last week won unanimous approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee for his nomination as [...]
It was like bereavement: Dravid on spot-fixing
New Delhi: Rajasthan Royals skipper Rahul Dravid says dealing with the turmoil caused by the spot-fixing scandal, which has left his team’s reputation in tatters, has turned out to be as tough as handling “bereavement in some ways”. “I would not lie it was a very tough phase for us. It was a blow to [...]
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The final kick-off for passion
Tonight the football season will finally come to a close with the Champions League final being played at Wembley stadium. It’s been a tumultuous season for all the wrong reasons. The four big leagues were wrapped up early: Manchester United in the EPL, Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga, Juventus in Serie A and Barcelona in [...]
Earlier this week, I received an email about the Gayatri Mantra being proven to be the most divine and powerful hymn in the world. An American scientist called Dr Howard Steingeril is said to have collected hymns, prayers, mantras and invocations from all over the world and from all religions. He tested these for sound [...]
Reporter’s diary: Waste not flowers
A flower is most beautiful when it is in the garden, like a deer or a lamb seen in its natural habitat. If this wisdom is known to the mayor and the GHMC, they would not have wasted several hundred lovely flowers at the function declaring the GHMC’s plan to open 14 biodiversity parks on [...]
Reporter’s diary: Bravo, Naidu
TDP leader Chandrababu Naidu is a visionary. Few will doubt this considering what he did to give Hyderabad a modern face, and many of his welfare schemes are now implemented (of course, renamed after Rajiv Gandhi or Indira Gandhi). But many could not understand his logic of asking for a ban of `500 and `1,000 [...]
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