Tarantula belongs to the family of spiders. Fried tarantula is a regional delicacy in Cambodia. It is believed that the scarcity of food in the villages of Cambodia led to consumption of spiders. Chicken, duck or pig blood is popularly consumed in places like Shanghai, Poland, Philippines, Korea, Singapore etc. The famous Korean blood soup is made with ox blood and is often used as a hangover cure. Now, that’s […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the fourth most “followed” world leader on Twitter, has overtaken the White House in terms of number of followers on the microblogging site, an annual global study of world leaders today revealed. According to Twiplomacy, a study conducted by global public relations and communications firm Burson-Marsteller, United States President Barack Obama is the most followed leader on Twitter followed by Pope Francis, Indonesia’s President Susilo Bambang […]
I love money – as we all do. Yet, money isn’t everything. There are things in life that are much more important than money itself, or anything that money is capable of buying. The reality is that even though we live in a capitalist world, the most valuable things in life come without a price tag. This is important to keep in mind as more and more people every year […]
Liver disease is often stereotypically linked to alcohol or drugs, but the truth is that there are more than 100 known forms of liver disease caused by a multitude of factors. Here we list some common symptoms you should be aware of if you are concerned about liver disease. The liver is the largest internal organ and largest gland in the human body. The liver plays a vital role in […]
Behind the smoke of paltry figures, seemingly intended to hide the big-ticket donors’ details, political parties in India have unwittingly revealed a lot. About 90 per cent of the donations received by these parties across the political spectrum are from sources whose identities are not in the public domain. (Be open: Should India’s President Mukherjee insist on more openness with the country’s ruling bodies?) The news puts all those donations […]
For years, we were told that a good blood pressure was 120/80. In recent years, the pharmaceutical companies re-vamped the standard and set it at 110/70. But that is NOT what the literature suggests!! I was taught in Naturopathic College, that for every decade over 60 – you could raise the rate about 10% without concern. But in a new article published in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) […]
We hear it constantly: “Successful people engage in the practice of daily gratitude.” We’ve likely also heard it constantly from our parents during our adolescent years: “Be appreciative and grateful!” But how many of us truly understand what appreciation is? Furthermore, how many of us truly understand how beneficial gratitude can be to our lives? 1. You’ll begin to see the positive in everything Practicing gratitude on a daily basis […]
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Iraqis have been turning to an app which allows group messages to be sent between phones, without the need for an internet connection, in an effort to circumnavigate government restrictions. About 40,000 users downloaded Firechat last week, compared with 6,600 over the previous few months, the company says. The internet has been blocked in some Iraqi provinces, as authorities seek to prevent militants from communicating. Access to social media sites […]
In a shocking lapse by medical authorities, the patients at a government hospital in Jodhpur were administered veterinary injections for three days despite the vials clearly stating that these were not meant for human use. An estimated 300 one-gram vials of Meropenem, a Schedule H1 antibiotic, were issued from the four pharmacy counters of the Mathura Das Mathur Hospital under the ‘Chief Minister Free Medicine Scheme’. The blunder was revealed […]
