A handful of walnuts every day can help young men happily tackle life’s daily stress as this nutrient-dense snack can lead to a happier state-of-mind, suggests a new study. The researchers found a significant improvement in mood in young, healthy males who consumed walnuts every day for eight weeks. “In the past, studies on walnuts have shown beneficial effects on many health outcomes like heart disease, diabetes and obesity,” said […]
New Delhi: With more people than ever before migrating to cities, finding a toilet is not only a chore but a public health issue for hundreds of millions of people around the world, WaterAid, a sanitation charity, said on Thursday. Nearly one in five city dwellers, or about 700 million people worldwide do not have access to decent toilets, according to the Britain-based WaterAid. About 600 million people use […]
Pakistan on Friday described as “ambiguous” India’s ‘No First Use’ policy on nuclear weapons and said it cannot be a substitute for verifiable arms control and restraint measures, days Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar questioned the doctrine. “Pakistan believes the ambiguous ‘No First Use’ Declaration is not verifiable and amounts to nothing. It can’t be a substitute for verifiable arms control and restraint measures proposed by Pakistan’s standing offer of Strategic […]
Two decades of diabetes has caused 64-year-old External Affairs minister, Sushma Swaraj’s kidneys to shut down. Admitted in the Capital’s premier medical institute, AIIMS, she will undergo a transplant soon. According to sources in the hospital, the minister’s creatinine levels, which measure how well the kidneys are functioning, were around 5 mg%; normally it should range from 0.80 mg% to 1.21 mg%. The higher the creatinine levels, the more damaged […]
The possibility that we will have to look at another planet for sustenance as an entire race is looming. When we think of a planet that can sustain us, Mars is the only one that comes to mind. While Elon Musk works on making that a reality , we put together a slideshow that shows you what you’re in for. NatGeo has recently launched its largest scale production to date […]
Almost every discussion on the social/virtual or actual meet-ups and get together is about the demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes. I hear many passionate outbursts about the fact that this sudden cash crunch will be terrible for the economy and would lead to severe slowdown and on the other hand there are some who seem absolutely convinced that this move could surely herald a new phase in […]
Mamata Banerjee and Arvind Kejriwal made a double bore attack on the government on Thursday, warning that there will be intense protests and unrest if it does not withdraw its ban on 500 and 1,000 rupee notes. They also visited the Reserve Bank of India to check on the progress of printing new notes, Mr Kejriwal said. “Take back this decision in three days… Don’t test people’s patience. Otherwise, there […]
‘Ghar mein shaadi hai, paise nahin hai…’ Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at an event in Japan a day after announcing ‘demonetisation.’ So, what happens when there is a wedding at home and there is no money at home? If you are G Janardhan Reddy, you invite thousands of people, spend several crores, publicly display your opulence and laugh at the shaadi-but-no-money joke. And, if you are Jagdeesh Pawar, 50, […]
The first theatrical trailer for Kong: Skull Island, the King Kong reboot from Warner Bros, was released online on Thursday. The first thing that stands out in this trailer is that this Kong movie is in fact a period film, probably set around the Vietnam war. There’s also vintage tech on display, an Apocalypse Now vibe, and some of those iconic helicopters from that era. What this also means is […]
The advent of social media and emergence of platforms like Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat, which let users share views and images with people across the world, has also given rise to a selfie craze. Although it can have effects on mental health, at times the obsession with selfies has also proved fatal when taken too far. As youngsters have been in the race for clicking the most spectacular selfies […]
