London: Fidgeting could add years to your life just as being sedentary could be harmful for your health. ‘Fidgeting’ may include activities that are unlike exercise, such as standing up and bouncing on your heels, wiggling your hips to some music or sauntering around the house during a TV commercial break. Although doctors still recommend [...]
Berlin: A drug of Polynesian origin has shown exciting results in improving memory and learning, which diminish with age but hit rock bottom in Alzhemier’s patients. University of Texas School of Medicine researchers added rapamycin, a bacterial product first isolated from soil on Easter Island, to the diet of healthy mice. The drug enhanced learning [...]
Washington: Drinking more coffee could lower the risk of basal cell carcinoma, the commonest form of skin cancer, according to a new study. “Our data indicate that the more caffeinated coffee you consume, the lower your risk of developing basal cell carcinoma (BCC),” said Jiali Han, associate professor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical [...]
AML is one of the most common types of leukaemia. Though treatment is aggressive and expensive, certain sub-types have a better survival rate From Sleepless in Seattle to Julie and Julia, Nora Ephron had created a permanent place in all our minds. Her recent death shocked many admirers of her work. Nora Ephron, 71, had [...]
HR consultant Supretha Amancherla Working people can be broadly categorised into two, tired and active. This could be the result of how the work place treats an employee of the company. Taking the time out for your employees and making the work environment smooth and easy by incorporating certain small changes will make a world’s [...]
Today’s recruiters when searching for candidates are looking both at experience and the ability to do a job. But given a choice what takes precedence, we find out It is almost like a bygone era, when we talk about employees spending a decade or more in a company. These endangered species or may be extinct [...]
The pleasure of astrological forecast is when you look back and see whether the predictions have come true or not. I read them for their entertainment value, for I believe no man on earth can foresee what lies ahead. If so, he is no longer a human made of flesh and blood and five senses: [...]
Hyderabad: The CBI today filed a supplementary charge sheet in the alleged disproportionate assets case of Kadapa MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy. It is a supplementary charge sheet for the first charge sheet which was filed against Jagan on March 31, according to CBI’s Deputy Legal Advisor B Ravindhra Nath. The investigating agency has so far filed three charge sheets [...]
At 6 feet, 8 inches, 704 pounds, Emmanuel Yarborough sticks out in a crowd — even a crowd of Guinness World Records holders. Yarborough, 47, is an amateur sumo wrestler who has also competed in mixed martial arts judo, wrestling, and college football. His record has been inauspicious — he has a 2-4 as an [...]
A homeless man is accused by police of living the high life in hotels, racking up thousands of dollars on other people’s credit cards, according to a report in Florida. Drifter David Price was arrested on Friday and is being held at the Orange County Jail in Orlando, according to WTFV. The station said Price [...]
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Humorist Jaspal Bhatti, had he been alive, would have found stunning material for a flop show in the BJP’s behaviour of late. How the ‘national opposition party’ turned into a ‘notional’ party is a story worth caricaturing with potential for record viewing-rate.
Chinese president Xi Jinping is a chemical engineer. No wonder he knows the chemical formula to pursue his country’s global ambitions. If anybody in India believed Xi would extend a warm friendship to this country, he should be naive. He has been on a global Sino initiative to widen the Chinese visions of the century. [...]
“India is China’s important neighbour. (The purpose of) my current visit to India is three-fold — to increase mutual interest, intensify cooperation and to face the future,” said Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during his visit to India. To this the Indian prime minister’s response could n0t have been more fitting that “the rest of the [...]
Adopt and restore a lake is new mantra
It’s interesting that the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has invited interested individuals, voluntary and corporate organisations to adopt lakes in and around the city in order to protect and preserve water bodies. Last week, HMDA Commissioner Neerabh Kumar Prasad said 176 lakes in the jurisdiction of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) and another [...]
About Traditional Russian values
Russia has decided to review its adoption pact that it has with France after the latter legalised gay marriage. This is in the wake of the statement of the Russian president Vladmir Putin which he made last month that Russia could change its adoption agreements with the countries which allowed gay marriage that goes against [...]
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