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Written by Rahul on 03 April 2009
Indian shares jumped more than 4 percent on Thursday, led by financials such as ICICI Bank and State Bank of India, after positive U.S. data boosted optimism the global economy had turned a corner.
Reliance Industries, the country’s most valuable company, rallied as much as 4.4 percent after the energy firm began pumping natural gas from its giant field off India’s east
coast.
Traders said the rise was spurred by gains across the region following Wall Street’s rally on Wednesday after data showed U.S. factory activity in March fell at a slower rate than the month before, while pending home sales rose more than expected in February.
“The market is seeing the glass as half-full. Things have become less worse, even though they may not have become better. A lot of people who were left out of the rally are joining the party a little late,” V.K. Sharma, head of research at Anagram
Stock Broking, said.
The BSE index, which has leapt about 28 percent since hitting a 2009 low in early March, could see a five-month high if it breaks above 10,469.72 reached on Jan. 7 before Satyam Computer unveiled the country’s biggest corporate fraud and sparked a market slide.
“We may have seen the worst and only a catastrophic event globally can affect us now,” Madhusudan Kela, head of equity at Reliance Mutual Fund, told an investment seminar at the Bombay Stock Exchange late on Wednesday.
Private-sector lender ICICI Bank rose 7.2 percent to 374.75 rupees, while government-run State Bank of India gained 6.5 percent to 1,144 rupees.
Reliance Industries, which has the biggest weight on the main index, was up 4.1 percent at 1,643.70 rupees.
In the broader section, gainers led losers in the ratio of 4:1 on moderate volume of 180.1 million.
The 50-share NSE index was up 4.5 percent at 3,195.50.
Asian shares were higher with Japan’s Nikkei up 4.4 percent and MSCI’s measure of other Asian markets rising 4.7 percent.
MAIN TOP 3 BY VOLUME
* Suzlon Energy on 8.6 million shares
* Reliance Natural Resources on 7.3 million shares
* Unitech on 5.3 million shares
STOCKS THAT MOVED
* Cement firms such as Grasim Industries and ACC Ltd were up 1-5 percent after the Economic Times said several companies raised prices by 3-7 rupees per 50 kg bag in anticipation of higher demand.
* Larsen and Toubro Ltd rose 6.7 percent to 717.60 rupees after the engineering conglomerate said it won two orders worth 11.43 billion rupees from Tata Steel.
* Wind-turbine maker Suzlon Energy gained 8 percent to 50.25 rupees after it said late on Wednesday its U.S. unit won a repeat order from U.S. firm Duke Energy for 20 wind turbines.
11:45 a.m., the 30-share BSE index was up 4.4 percent at 10,
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Written by Rahul on 02 April 2009
In the narrow alleyways of Kabir Nagar in Northeast Delhi, where mounds of garbage are a common sight and houses stand neck to neck, the BSP office is abuzz with activity at all hours.
Community elders, party workers and those seeking favours keep filtering in and out of the glass doors adorned with posters of Mayawati and the BSP’s candidate for Northeast Delhi Haji Dilshad Ali.
It is in this constituency they hope to clinch riding high on the Muslim votebank.
Dilshad Ali is the party’s dark horse who contested the Assembly elections last year from Babarpur constituency and garnered around 28,000 votes.
In Delhi, the BSP is the only party to give tickets to three Muslim candidates – Haji Yunus from East Delhi, Haji Dilshad from Northeast Delhi and Mustkeem Ahmed (Billo) for the Chandni Chowk Lok Sabha seat.
On December 9 last year, the party high command cleared Dilshad Ali’s name for candidacy in the area. Since then, he has been working with 1,200 party workers to make sure the BSP emerges as a viable option for the community. It also helps is that neither the Congress nor the BJP have pitched Muslim candidates from the area. Varun Gandhi’s alleged remarks against the community also seem to have come at a perfect timing. “No Muslim will vote for the BJP here,” she adds.
“Muslims are like tezpatta in biryani- only for flavour. We are considered only as votebanks,” Mohd Nasir, Dilshad Ali’s driver, said.
While the party’s ideology of an “inclusive society” is at the core, it is at the same time making the most of local issues during poll season. At the top of the agenda is a decrepit Muslim graveyard for the Mustafabad, Kabir Nagar, and Babarpur areas. Without a boundary wall and heaps of garbage surrounding it, it is a haven for stray dogs sniffing around the graves.
For local Muslims, it is an emotionally sensitive issue that the party is only too ready to use for its campaign.
‘Social engineering mantra for Delhi’While the Delhi BSP has no manifesto, party workers say the party’s idea of “Samtamulak Samaj Vyavastha” will bring in the votes. The bhaichara samitis, a core programme of the BSP, has been functional in the area for months now, holding meetings and bringing people together. There are around 10 to 12 bhaichara samitis in a Vidhan Sabha constituency.
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Written by Rahul on 02 March 2009
Washington, Feb 28 (ANI): Archaeologists in Italy have recovered new papyrus fragments, dating back to 3,000 years, which may finally help solve a century-old puzzle, shedding new light on ancient Egyptian history.
According to a report in Discovery News, the ancient fragments were found stored between two sheets of glass in the basement of the Museo Egizio, a museum, in Turin, Italy.
The fragments belong to a 3,000-year-old unique document, known as the Turin Kinglist.
Like many ancient Egyptian documents, the Turin Kinglist is written on the stem of a papyrus plant.
Believed to date from the long reign of Ramesses II, the papyrus contains an ancient list of Egyptian kings.
Written in an ancient Egyptian cursive writing system called hieratic, the papyrus was purchased in Thebes by the Italian diplomat and explorer Bernardino Drovetti in 1822.
Placed in a box along with other papyri, the parchment disintegrated into small fragments by the time it arrived in Italy.
Scholars from the British Museum were tipped off to the existence of the additional fragments after reviewing a 1959 analysis of the papyrus by a British archaeologist.
In his work, the archaeologist, Alan Gardiner, mentions fragments that were not included in the final reconstruction on display at the museum.
After an extensive search, museum researchers found the pieces.
The finding could help more accurately piece together what is considered to be a key item for understanding ancient Egyptian history.
“This is one of the most important documents to reconstruct the chronology of Egypt between the 1st and 17th Dynasty,” Federico Bottigliengo, Egyptologist at the Turin museum, told Discovery News.
“Unlike other lists of kings, it enumerates all rulers, including the minor ones and those considered usurpers. Moreover, it records the length of reigns in years, and in some cases even in months and days,” he said.
Now made of 160 fragments, the Turin Kinglist basically lacks two important parts: the introduction of the list and the ending.
“Some of the finest scholars have worked on the papyrus last century, but disagreement about its reconstruction has remained. It has been a never-ending puzzle,” Bottigliengo said.
“The enumeration of the kings does not continue after the 17th Dynasty. We are confident that the recovered fragments will help reconstruct some of the missing parts as well as add new knowledge to Egyptian history and chronology,” he added.
“It is possible that some dates will have to be changed and names of pharaohs will have to be added,” he further added. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 28 February 2009
London, Feb 27 (ANI): Healthy eating and exercise could reduce the risk of most common cancers by more than a third, says a study by the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF).
The report also said that in developing countries like China and Brazil, such lifestyle practices, could cut cancer risk by almost a quarter.
These figures do not include smoking, which alone accounts for about a third of cancers.
The study is based on the 2007 release of 10 recommendations on how to avoid cancer, which include avoiding processed meats – including bacon and some sausages – eating less than 6 grams of salt per day, maintaining a healthy weight, and exercising every day.
“People think that somehow cancer comes from heaven, or Darwin, or from their parent’s genes, but that’s not always the case. A third are caused by smoking, and approximately a third are related to diet and physical activity,” New Scientist quoted Michael Marmot, chair of the WCRF panel that produced the report, as saying.
For calculating the proportion of preventable cancers, the panel examined the biggest and most reliable studies to date on each of the 10 risk factors.
They then found a relative risk of developing cancer for each of the risk factor, which would be applicable to people not following the recommendations’ advice.
After that they estimated the proportion of people in the US, UK, China and Brazil that indulge in this kind of “risky” behaviour.
After combining the values for the 12 most common cancers, they estimated that 39 percent of UK cancers are preventable, while 34 percent of US cancers, 30 percent of Brazilian cancers, and 27 percent of Chinese cancers could be avoided.
This means “that there are more actions that could be taken in the UK to reduce cancer than in the US, China or Brazil,” said Martin Wiseman, medical and scientific adviser to the WCRF.
He further said that the consumption of alcohol is one of the biggest problems in the UK.
Although a glass or two of wine each day is good for the heart, “over that you get no additional benefit,” said Marmot.
The study has called for the governments across the world to make it easier for people to lose weight and eat healthily.
It suggested that the above goal could be accomplished by increasing access to sports facilities and making it safer to cycle to work, and by reducing the cost of healthy foods so people are more inclined to buy them.
“Individuals decide for themselves what to eat, but let’s make it easier for individuals and their families to make healthy decisions,” said Marmot. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 26 February 2009
London, Feb 26 (ANI): Unlike chimpanzees, orang-utans and gorillas, apes do not recognise their own face in a mirror, a new study has found.
According to scientists, the lack of self-recognition in gibbons and other lesser apes indicates that the mental capacity emerged 14 to 18 million years ago when their evolutionary lineage split from great apes, reports New Scientist.
“We can reason about the mind of an ancestor without even laying eyes on the fossil,” says Thomas Suddendorf, a psychologist at the University of Queensland, Australia, who led the study.
Earlier studies had suggested that gibbons don’t recognise their own mug, but those studies examined only a handful of animals of just one species of gibbon, Suddendorf said.
To put an end to the speculation, he and colleague Emma Collier-Baker studied 17 different captive gibbons belonging to three out of the four existing genera.
The research team tested self-recognition by first letting the gibbons lick tasty cake icing off their own limbs. They then painted a stripe of the same colour down the apes’ faces.
With at least five hours in front of a large mirror in their enclosure, gibbons did examine the reflection and touch the glass, yet none used it to inspect whether the stripe might offer a further treat. Sometimes they even tried to reach around the mirror as if to touch a gibbon on the other side.
One ape discovered the mark while scratching, but paid no more attention to it after he returned to the mirror.
According to Suddendorf, apes didn’t seem to have an idea that there is what looks like icing on their own face.
“This is a nice, very detailed study, but confirms what we thought already, which is that these animals don’t have mirror self-recognition,” says Frans de Waal, a primatologist at Yerkes Primates Center and Emory University in Atlanta, US.
The study has been published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 25 February 2009
New York, Feb 25 (ANI): It’s time for all those single men to brace themselves up, for actress Megan Fox has called off her engagement with fiance Brian Austin Green, and might be on the look out for a new man very soon.
The ‘Transformers’ beauty has split with Austin Green, whom she met in 2004, and with whom she got engaged in November 2006.
“The relationship had run its course. It’s completely amicable, and they are remaining friends,” the New York Daily News quoted a source close to the couple as telling Us magazine.
The insider also revealed that Fox and Green “are both focusing on their careers.”
Earlier this year, the actress had raised eyebrows when she attended the Golden Globes without her fiance.
But Green, 35, later laughed off rumours of a split with Fox, 22, saying: “We usually go have dinner and have a glass of wine and laugh about it.”
In a recent interview at a GQ bash, the actress played down any wedding plans, and said: “It’s not going to be a big wedding. I’m not one of those girls. If it happens, it will be very low-key and quick and unplanned.”
She also dismissed rumours that she and the former ‘Beverly Hills 90210′ actor might start a family together anytime soon.
She said: “I feel like I need to set my career and do a movie other than ‘Transformers.’ Then I’ll explore family.” (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 22 February 2009
London, Feb 21 (ANI): In a bizarre revelation, a Croatian man has admitted that he has drunk nothing but Coca-Cola for the last four decades, just because he promised his mom that he would not touch alcohol.
Pero Ajtman, 71, has revealed that his mother made him swear not to drink alcoholic beverages 40 years ago, and since then he has been surviving on Coke.
“My mum didn’t like me drinking when I was a young man as she was very religious,” the Telegraph quoted him as telling the Croatian tabloid 24 Sata.
He added: “She made me promise never to drink again and Coca-Cola was the only thing that tasted as good as wine so I started drinking that. Now I have a glass in the morning, before and after lunch, with my dinner and then before I go to bed. I never drink anything else.”
Residing in the village of Karanac, near the city of Osijek, in eastern Croatia, the pensioner said that he was still not thinking about dumping his coke-drinking habit.
He said: “My mother isn’t here to tell me not to drink any more but I’m not even tempted to quit coke for alcohol. Coke is my drug now, and I’ll drink it till I die.”
Also, he added that despite of his daily dose of Coke, he has not experienced any major health problems. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 15 February 2009
New Delhi, Feb 14 (ANI): The new integrated terminal building at the Srinagar Airport will be inaugurated today with the first international flight of Air India Express to Dubai starting operation from the Airport.
This is a weekly flight and is expected to provide direct connectivity to the immigrant population in Middle East and fillip to tourism in the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
This is being done in the presence of a number of dignitaries from the Centre and the State including UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Railway Minister Lalu Prasad, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel, and Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah.
Srinagar is a defence airport where the Airport Authority of India (AAI) maintains a civil enclave.
The civil enclave at Srinagar was established in 1979 for facilitation of civil passengers. Srinagar Airport was declared international airport in March 2005.
The existing terminal building could handle 500 passengers at a time but had no separate facility to handle international passengers.
In view of the growth in air traffic and to provide modern facilities, AAI undertook the construction of a new integrated terminal building with an area of 19700 sqm, with a capacity to handle 950 passengers (500 domestic and 450 international) at a time.
A total expenditure of Rs. 130 crores was incurred to develop the terminal building, apron and taxi track. The project has been fully funded by Government of India.
The main features of new integrated terminal building are modern steel and glass structure, specific roof design to enable easy removal of snow during winter, central heating and air-conditioning of the entire building, escalators, inline baggage handling system for enhanced security, car park to accommodate 250 cars with proper approach road, and check-in counters with Common User Terminal Equipment (CUTE) system for easy and fast check-in of passengers. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 15 February 2009
Washington, January 14 (ANI): University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers claim that they have created a human eye-inspired photo-detector, which can do away with the oft-noticed problem of distortion in snaps clicked with camera cell-phones or the mammoth telephoto lenses that sports photographers use.
Zhenqiang Ma, an Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor, believes that the new light-sensitive material he and his colleagues have created can revolutionise photography and other imaging technologies, and render cell-phone pics and expensive lens systems ancient history.
A research article on their study, published in the journal Applied Science, points out that when a device records an image, light passes through a lens and lands on a photodetector-a light-sensitive material like the sensor in a digital camera. However, a lens bends the light and curves the focusing plane.
In a digital camera, the point where the focusing plane meets the flat sensor will be in focus, but the image becomes more distorted the farther it is from that focus point.
“If I take a picture with a cell phone camera, for example, there is distortion. The closer the subject is to the lens, the more distortion there is,” says Ma, adding that this is why some photos can turn out looking like images in a funhouse mirror, with an enlarged nose or a hand as big as a head.
The researcher says that high-end digital cameras correct this problem by incorporating multiple panes of glass to refract light and flatten the focusing plane.
However, the mammoth telephoto lenses sports photographers use are large, bulky, and expensive. Even high-quality lenses stretch the edges of an image somewhat.
Ma insists that his new photo-detector can eliminate the problem of distortion because it is inspired by the human eye.
In the eye, light enters though a single lens, but at the back of the eye, the image falls upon the curved retina, eliminating distortion.
“If you can make a curved imaging plane, you just need one lens. That’s why this development is extremely important,” says Ma.
He says that it is possible to create curved photo-detectors with specially fabricated nanomembranes-extremely thin, flexible sheets of germanium, a very light-sensitive material often used in high-end imaging sensors.
He adds that such nanomembranes can be applied to any polymer substrate, such as a thin, flexible piece of plastic.
His team have so far shown photo-detectors curved in one direction, but they hopes to develop hemispherical sensors soon.
“We can easily realize very high-density flexible and sensitive imaging arrays, because the photodetector material germanium itself is extremely bendable and extremely efficient in absorbing light,” Ma says. (ANI)
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Written by admin on 14 February 2009
Shah Rukh Khan’s house attacked
Two motorcycle-borne miscreants hurled a bottle of kerosene at actor Shah Rukh Khan’s Bandra residence, Mannat, at around 2.30 am on Friday. Nobody was injured.
Security personnel at Khan’s bungalow were unable to note the registration number of the bike in the darkness. A complaint was lodged at the Bandra police station.
According to reports, a fundamentalist group was upset with the use of certain words in the song, Marjaani, marjaani, featuring Khan and Kareena Kapoor in the film Billu.
On Friday morning a group of protesters gathered outside Bandra’s G-7 cinema complex, where Billu was being screened, and broke glass panes and tore away posters.
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Written by Rahul on 14 February 2009
New Delhi, Feb 13 (ANI): The new integrated terminal building at the Srinagar Airport will be inaugurated tomorrow with the first international flight of Air India Express to Dubai starting operation from the Airport.
This is a weekly flight and is expected to provide direct connectivity to the immigrant population in Middle East and fillip to tourism in the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
This is being done in the presence of a number of dignitaries from the Centre and the State including UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Railway Minister Lalu Prasad, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel, and Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah.
Srinagar is a defence airport where the Airport Authority of India (AAI) maintains a civil enclave.
The civil enclave at Srinagar was established in 1979 for facilitation of civil passengers. Srinagar Airport was declared international airport in March 2005.
The existing terminal building could handle 500 passengers at a time but had no separate facility to handle international passengers.
In view of the growth in air traffic and to provide modern facilities, AAI undertook the construction of a new integrated terminal building with an area of 19700 sqm, with a capacity to handle 950 passengers (500 domestic and 450 international) at a time.
A total expenditure of Rs. 130 crores was incurred to develop the terminal building, apron and taxi track. The project has been fully funded by Government of India.
The main features of new integrated terminal building are modern steel and glass structure, specific roof design to enable easy removal of snow during winter, central heating and air-conditioning of the entire building, escalators, inline baggage handling system for enhanced security, car park to accommodate 250 cars with proper approach road, and check-in counters with Common User Terminal Equipment (CUTE) system for easy and fast check-in of passengers. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 14 February 2009
London, Feb.13 (ANI): A line of cocaine is now cheaper than a pint of lager or a glass of wine, official figures in Britain have disclosed.
According to DrugScope, a charity that provides research and advice on drugs policy, gram of cocaine can make between 10 and 20 lines for snorting, depending on its strength.
That means a line of cocaine can cost as little as a pound, with an average price per line of between two and four pounds. The average price of a pint of lager is around 2.75 pounds, although some pub chains have reacted to the credit crunch by cutting the price of a pint as low as 99 pence. A glass of wine typically costs 3.50 pounds.
According to The Telegraph, the Home Office has admitted that the street price of both cocaine and heroin has fallen by nearly half in the last ten years, making the most dangerous illegal drugs cheaper than they have ever been.
Based on reports from police forces, the Home Office said that cocaine is now being sold for as little as 20 pounds a gram in some parts of the country.
The most common price for the drug is 40 pounds per gram. Home Office figures for 1998 show the average price was 77 pounds.
A gram of heroin can now be bought for as little as 25 pounds, with the average price somewhere between £40 and £50 per gram. In 1998, the average was 74 pounds.
The Home Office figures are based on data collected from police forces and the Serious Organised Crime Agency.
The figures were uncovered by the Tories, who said they proved that Labour had failed to stem the flow of Class A drugs into the UK. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 13 February 2009
London, February 12 (ANI): Yacht owners and canal boaters in the United Kingdom will be breathalysed, and subjected to the same drink-drive law as motorists, when the new laws come into force later this year.
They have been warned that “marine officials” will detain any sailor making unsteady progress back to shore until the police are called to administer a breath test, and that those found guilty of the offences would face a maximum fine of 5,000 pounds at a magistrate’s court.
The legal drink-drive limit is 80mg per 100 millilitres of blood, and the new law will apply to an estimated two million weekend yachtsmen, canal boaters and jet-skit enthusiasts.
The rules will be relaxed for those using smaller craft, which are less than 23 feet in length and slower than seven knots.
However, those in control of smaller boats and dinghies would still face prosecution if they are found to be impaired by drink or drugs.
The move comes following concerns raised by the Marine Accident Investigation Branch that alcohol has been a factor in a number of accidents.
“The Government takes alcohol abuse at sea very seriously,” the Telegraph quoted Jim Fitzpatrick, a transport minister, as saying.
“Everyone has the right to enjoy themselves on the water, but not in a way that puts others at risk,” Fitzpatrick added.
He said that the decision to exempt smaller and slower craft was intended to strike a balance between improving safety, and avoiding unnecessary regulation.
The decision to introduce the new law was taken after some lobbying by the pleasure boat industry and Royal Yachting Association, who argued that the strict drink drive limits applied on land were unnecessary for slow-moving small craft on a river or lake.
“We didn’t want blanket legislation. We don’t believe that there is a widespread problem of alcohol afloat and were worried how this would impact on people taking boating holidays, where a glass of wine with a meal is one of the things that you do,” said Howard Pridding, executive director of the British Marine Federation.
Harbour masters and other designated “marine officials” will be given the power to detain craft until a police officer arrives to carry out the breath test. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 11 February 2009
New Delhi, Feb 11 (ANI): A Brazilian website is selling a coffee cup which was reportedly used by Tom Cruise while on holiday in Forte da Urca, Brazil.
So far the empty cup has a sale price of 2,200 dollars, reports the China Daily.
The man who initiated the auction on website Mercado Libre goes by the screen name Rafael Mak.
The authenticity of the sale has, however, been contested.
Underneath the advert, a poster has written a message claiming they have the real cup used by Tom, and the auction is fake.
The post reads: “I would like to inform all potential buyers that this ad is false, because I got the glass [sic], and not put the sale [sic], because I am an unconditional fan of Tom Cruise from Top Gun. Thus, this glass is false, only buy if they want to be deceived [sic].”
Cruise was in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, last week with wife Katie Holmes – where he slipped up by greeting reporters in Spanish rather than the national language, Portuguese. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 11 February 2009
Washington, Feb 10 (ANI): With Valentine’s Day come sweet indulgences, but a University of Michigan researcher says that extravagances like chocolate, wine and romance can turn out to be really good for your heart, if taken in moderation.
Dr. Steven F. Bolling, professor of cardiac surgery at the U-M medical school, says that tart cherries, grapes and wine have components that can lower blood pressure and protect heart muscle.
A glass of wine and massage can do wonders for lowering stress and anxiety, the researcher adds.
“There are many fruits associated with Valentine’s Day, most commonly cherries, of course. In cherries there are compounds called anthocyanins, which also can be very good for your heart. Perhaps we could even take the cherries and dip them in chocolate to make a very good, heart-healthy Valentine’s snack,” says Bolling.
However, not any chocolate, but dark chocolate is the kind that contains flavonoids, that can guarantee a healthy heart.
“People have asked the question which is better for you red wine or white wine? Probably wine in itself is good for you, just because it reduces stress and anxiety; let’s not over do it. But red wine has specific agents, perhaps in the dark skin of red wine grapes that are heart-healthy and heart friendly,” warned Bolling.
In a recent study it was shown that grapes intake lowered blood pressure and improved heart function in lab rats.
It is believed that the beneficial effect of the grapes is from their high level of phytochemicals – naturally occurring antioxidants – that grapes contain.
Also, similar advantages have been found to be associated with tart cherries.
“A ‘tart, heart-smart diet’ has shown to be very beneficial in terms of heart health, heart function and also really reducing belly fat and changing your metabolic obesity syndrome, all very helpful,” said Bolling.
Animals that received powdered tart cherries in their diet had lower total cholesterol, lower blood sugar, less fat storage in the liver, lower oxidative stress, and increased production of a molecule that helps the body handle fat and sugar.
Cherries were found to alter factors that can lead to heart disease and Type 2 diabetes.
Other activities associated with Valentine’s Day that are heart-healthy include massage. Reducing stress and anxiety has long been linked with benefiting the heart.
“There is proven research that indicates that massage itself is beneficial in the post-operative state, in hospitalized patients to reduce stress and anxiety and even probably to reduce blood pressure,” said Bolling.
He added: “All of these indulgences really do not have to be limited to Valentine’s Day itself and certainly will lead to a much better heart-health status if we practice them everyday.” (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 09 February 2009
London, February 9 (AI): Amy Winehouse has mended her havoc-wreaking ways, and is relying upon pricey beauty treatments to reverse damage caused by her drug addiction, as per the manager of a posh Caribbean resort.
The ‘rehab’ hit maker, who has been soaking up the sun in Le Sport spa hotel in St. Lucia since December, had vowed to make a fresh start in 2009, including getting rid off her drug and alcohol addiction.
And according to manager Andrew Barnard, the singer had been treating herself in the hotel’s skin clinic or spa every day and was showing results.
“We had Amy on a diet and exercise programme as she really wasn’t well when she came to us,” the Daily Star quoted him as saying.
“But now she’s mentally and physically stronger. She’s had lots of treatments too and is really looking good,” he added.
Amy had previously been reported as a guest from hell following her drunken cavorting and crazy antics at the hotel, including crawling up to other holidaymakers and grabbing their drinks after fed-up resort staff refused to serve her.
She also got herself nearly charged with assault after she threw a glass of water at a woman tourist.
But Barnard insisted it is all passé now, adding: “At the beginning Amy was a difficult guest but she’s actually quite charming.” (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 08 February 2009
Melbourne, Feb 8 (ANI): It is okay to have the occasional alcoholic drink during pregnancy, that’s the conclusion of a new Australian research.
The “soon-to-be” controversial study says a glass or two of wine is not harmful for expectant mothers and their unborn children.
The findings are based on a study of more than 4700 pregnant women.
The research found that low levels of alcohol consumption during pregnancy – less than seven standard drinks a week and no more than two drinks at a time – were not associated with preterm birth or reduced fetal growth, reports the Herald Sun.
The study has been published in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology this week.
Researchers from the Centre for Child Health Research at the University of WA (Western Australia) say moderate and high levels of drinking in early pregnancy are linked with an increased risk of preterm birth, even when women stop drinking before the second trimester.
They say the findings show the pattern and timing of drinking are important when estimating risks and suggest pregnant women be screened for binge drinking. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 08 February 2009
Washington, Feb 8 (ANI): Scientists in California, US, have developed tiny electronic circuits that could pave the way for transparent electronics and other futuristic applications, including flexible electronic newspapers and wearable clothing displays.
In the new study, Chongwu Zhou and colleagues point out that although scientists have previously developed nano-sized transparent circuits, previous versions are limited to a handful of materials that are transparent semiconductors.
The researchers describe the development of transparent thin-film transistors (TTFTs) composed of highly aligned, single-walled carbon nanotubes – each about 1/50,000th the width of a single human hair.
They are transparent, flexible, and perform well.
Laboratory experiments showed that TTFTs could be easily applied to glass and plastic surfaces, and showed promise in other ways for a range of possible practical applications.
This research is a significant advance toward the long-sought goal of “invisible electronics” and transparent displays, which can be highly desirable for heads-up displays,wind-shield displays, and electronic paper. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 07 February 2009
Washington, Feb 7 (ANI): Scientists have cracked a controversial mystery of what makes solid glass different from the molten liquid from which it is formed, by presenting an explanation of how atoms behave as glass cools and hardens.
The team of scientists is from the University of Nottingham and the University of California, Berkeley in collaboration with the University of Bath.
Though the secret of glass making came to Britain with the Romans in 55 BC, but only now do scientists believe they are a step closer to unravelling the controversy that surrounds the question: what makes solid glass different from the molten liquid from which it is formed?
According to Juan Garrahan, Professor of Physics, in the School of Physics and Astronomy at Nottingham, snapshots taken with x-rays show that in ice, water molecules fit together in an ordered array, which is called a crystal, while in liquid water, the molecules are jumbled. Scientists can understand why ice is rigid and liquid water is fluid largely from these structural differences.
“Glass, on the other hand, does not offer this explanation because a snapshot of the molecular structure of solid glass is almost indistinguishable from that of the molten liquid. Both appear to be jumbled random collections of atoms,” said Garrahan.
“This observation is at the heart of the problem: if the solid state of glass has a molecular structure just like that of the liquid, how can it be so rigid? Controversy has resulted from the absence of a clear answer to this question,” he explained.
Using computer simulations, researchers were able to test the theoretical and computational process of melting and hardening glass.
They have not yet solved the glass transition problem however they have provided evidence for a new perspective on glassy phenomena which may eventually lead to its solution.
According to Dr. Robert Jack, from the Department of Physics at the University of Bath, “By focusing on the ability or inability of molecules to flow, we have provided evidence for a new kind of sudden transition between the flowing liquid and the solid glass. This transformation is apparent only when the system is viewed in both space and time.”
Ultimately, the answer is important because the principles that underlie the glass transition can guide scientists and engineers towards methods for producing better glass – stronger and longer lasting.
For over a century, principles of thermodynamics have aided the design of ordered solids, materials like steel and aluminium alloys. No such principles are yet settled for production of glassy solids.
The current work is believed to be a significant step towards these principles. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 07 February 2009
Islamabad, Feb 6 (ANI): Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf says that he loves his life, and is enjoying his lecture tours.
Musharraf, who stood down as Army Chief in November 2007 and resigned as president in August 2008, still occupies the well-guarded Army House.
And adjacent to the sprawling lawns of the Army House is his favourite room with glass windows, expensive furniture, a collection of antiques, and an LCD television set with a sound system.
“I love this life. I am relaxed and satisfied. And I am enjoying my lecture tours,” Musharraf told Dawn in an informal chat.
He denied reports that an American think tank had offered him residence and employment during his visit to the US.
“I am a former president of Pakistan and have, by the grace of God, so much that I do not need any job,” Musharraf added.
Musharraf said he was making efforts to dispel negative impressions about Pakistan across the world through his lectures.
He said he also had invitations to lecture in several countries, including the US, China and various European countries.
Clad in a purple pullover and brown trousers for the interview, former president Musharraf said he had no regrets about any of his actions since the military coup of October 1999.
He argued that politicians were equally responsible for the state Pakistan was in. (ANI)
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