I had never heard of drinking ayahuasca until I traveled to the jungle of Columbia. It was there that I first caught wind of backpackers discussing ceremonies, shamans, visions, and purging. Some wished to try ayahuasca with a curiosity akin to recreational drug sampling. Others seriously pondered the potential for emotional and spiritual growth. I was captivated — torn between disbelief and a desperate curiosity for the lofty claims made […]
United Nations: Approximately 2.2 billion people around the world are “poor or near-poor,” a UN flagship report said Thursday, calling for stronger collective global action in response to vulnerabilities in order to securing human development progress. The 2014 Human Development Report, released Thursday by the UN Development Programme (UNDP), said 1.2 billion people live on $1.25 a day or less, Xinhua reported. The latest Human Development Index (HDI) included in […]
Police say crash happened after bus pulled on to unmanned railway crossing without checking for a train Twelve children were killed instantly, while another six died in hospital. All were aged between seven and 14 Twenty are thought to still be in hospital, with 15 of them still in critical condition following crash this morning A father died when he had a heart attack after being told both his children […]
I recently celebrated my one-year anniversary of quitting smoking. Well, of finally quitting … like most smokers, I had tried to quit many times and failed. But this quit stuck, and I’d like to share the top 10 things that made this quit successful when the others failed. 1. Commit Thyself Fully. In the quits that failed, I was only half into it. I told myself I wanted to quit, […]
Doctors in India have extracted 232 teeth from the mouth of a 17-year-old boy in a seven-hour operation. Ashik Gavai was brought in with a swelling in his right jaw, Dr Sunanda Dhiware, head of Mumbai’s JJ Hospital’s dental department, told the BBC. The teenager had been suffering for 18 months and travelled to the city from his village after local doctors failed to identify the cause of the problem. […]
Media cheer Indian athletes ahead of Wednesday’s opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. The Queen will formally open the 20th Commonwealth Games in front of a 40,000 crowd at Celtic Park. More than 4,500 athletes from 71 Commonwealth nations and territories will parade during the opening ceremony in Scotland. Most Indian media outlets are giving top coverage to the event largely because of the country’s impressive show in […]
The savoury chicken tandoori drumstick may soon become inexpensive in India as the ministry of external affairs (MEA) has suggested allowing free import of American chicken legs to start a dialogue on a bilateral investment treaty with the US. Chicken legs have no viable market in the US, where consumers prefer white meat like chicken breast and consider legs as ‘harmful’ red meat. So the unwanted frozen chicken legs are […]
What is the Placebo Effect? It is the capacity for the mind/body to heal itself without any medical intervention. In fact, I asked some 30 years ago if I could use the Placebo Effect as the base of my first PhD thesis. I wasn’t allowed to. I couldn’t understand why. If the placebo effect is so strong, why do studies have to take it into consideration and significant results have […]
It’s long but very informative �We all think eating fruits means just buying fruits, cutting it and just popping it into our mouths. It’s not as easy as you think. It’s important to know how and when to eat.�What is the correct way of eating fruits?�IT MEANS NOT EATING FRUITS AFTER YOUR MEALS! * FRUITS SHOULD BE EATEN ON AN EMPTY STOMACH.�If you eat fruit like that, it will play […]
Early into his tenure, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has listed a 17-point plan to take India forward. As per a report in a leading English daily, the 17-point agenda is people-oriented and envisages among other things coastal expressways, labour reforms and health knowledge institutes. The agenda was finalised on July 10 and forwarded to all the ministries. The ministries had time till July 20 to reply back with a detailed […]
