NOTE: THE CONTENTS OF THIS VIDEO MIGHT BE DISTURBING Prajwala India, an NGO working for women’s rights across India has shared the following video of yet another heinous attack on the modesty of a woman. The video shows the alleged rapist smiling to the camera while the victim pleads with him to let go. She even says her only option after this would be death. The organisation headed by Sunitha […]
If you could easily achieve the success you are working towards, wouldn’t you? Most of us doubt the power of our thoughts and how much they truly dictate how we operate. Take Anthony for example. He is really good at what he does for a living. People love being around him but Anthony believes he could never be in a leadership role because his opinion will not be valued. Although, […]
London: By 2050, it will be more difficult for Indian women to find an eligible partner, particularly if they have been educated at university or college-level, according to new research. The research published in the journal ‘Demography’ theorises that if current social norms persist by 2050 whereby university-educated or college-educated men are more desirable spouses than women similarly educated, there will be a ‘mis-match’ in numbers of ‘suitable’ men […]
New Delhi: One of the most dreaded diseases, cancer is emerging as a leading killer worldwide decimating 10 million people yearly and Indian women are no exception to it. World Cancer Day is being observed today i.e. Feb 4 worldwide. Every year more Indian women that men are diagnosed with cancer. Though the number of women diagnosed with cancer is more but more men die to cancer annually. In […]
Swine flu has claimed 191 lives in the country in January alone with Telangana reporting the highest number of cases of people afflicted with the H1N1 virus followed by Delhi, the government said today. The total number of cases of swine flu coming to light across India in January stood at 2,038. It’s everywhere. Rajasthan has been among the worst swine flu-hit states along with Telangana, where two more died […]
San Francisco: Carl Djerassi, who was widely considered as the father of the birth control pills by the chemists, has passed away at the age of 91. An Austrian-born US chemist, he died of complications of liver and bone cancer on Friday in his San Francisco home, Stanford University spokesman Dan Stober said. As a professor of chemistry at Stanford, Djerassi was the most famous for leading a research […]
You wouldn’t think that taking a little pain pill would cause long term cognitive impairment, but that’s just one of the commonly prescribed (or even OTC) pharmaceutical medications which were studied in a six-year test to see what kind of neurological damage was caused. Unfortunately, the research found that these pharmaceuticals, commonly taken for a variety of common medical conditions including insomnia, allergies, or incontinence, cause long-term damage to the […]
Girls who drink sugary soda more often are more likely to start their menstrual cycles at a younger age, according to a new study (pdf) out of Harvard Medical School. Researchers analyzed data from 5,583 girls in the Growing up Today Study (GUTS), surveying American children from 1996 to 2001, beginning when they were between the ages of 9 to 14. The study, published in the journal Human Reproduction, found […]
Ayurveda is the ancient science of natural medicine with roots going to back Vedic India. The name is derived from Sanskrit, where ‘ayur’ means longevity or life and ‘veda’ means science. Ayurvedic practitioners believe in the body’s ability to heal itself, when supported with the right choices of food, herbs, a healthy and positive bent of mind and appropriate life style modifications. A lot of focus is placed on creating […]
Think you can’t grow much food in an urban area? Think again. One family’s 4,000 square foot farm in Pasadena, California “not only feeds a family but revolutionizes the idea of what can be done in a very unlikely place—the middle of a city.” KCET reporter Val Zavala gives us a glimpse into the Dervaes family’s Path to Freedom Urban Homestead. “I brought the country to the city rather than […]
