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A new study suggests that going on a double date may be more effective at reigniting passion in your own relationship than the classic candlelit dinner for two.

According to the research, striking up a friendship with another couple in which you discuss personal details of your life will bring you closer to your own partner. “Passionate love is one of the first dimensions of love to decrease in couples over time as the newness of a relationship begins to wane,” Keith Welker, a doctoral student at Wayne State University, said.

Recent data released by the Uttar Pradesh government about representation of Muslims in Police force flies in the face of the claims made by government and political parties about uplift of the community.

According to the recent data, only two per cent Sub-Inspectors (SI), three per cent Head Constables and four per cent Constables in UP Police are Muslims.

The facts were released by the state government in response to an RTI query moved by social activist Urvashi Sharma.

Three Mexican brothers from an infamous town of pimps were given long jail sentences after two of their victims gave heart-wrenching pleas for justice in a Brooklyn courtroom.

A woman named Carmen, who was forced into prostitution at the age of 14, said that she could only describe her life in New York as five years in hell.

Benito Lopez-Perez, a pint-sized thug hailing from the dirt-poor town of Tenancingo was her tormentor.

Japanese women have warned men that if they vote for governor candidate Yoichi Masuzoe, who had claimed in 1989 that menstruation makes women unfit for government, then they could say goodbye to sex.

According to Japan Times, a new campaign titled “The association of women who will not have sex with men who vote for Masuzoe” on Twitter has collected almost 3,000 followers since it launched last week. In the profile, the unidentified founders have claimed that they stood up to prevent Masuzoe, who makes such insulting remarks against women, from taking over.

As we all know Kodipakam Neelameghacharya Govindacharya, is an environmental activist, social activist, political activist, Thinker and the ideological brain behind the BJP at the height of the Ram Mandir movement. Well, as per KN Govindacharya, the sprouting of Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party is an inexorable response to the anti-people politics of the mainstream parties.

(Subhatul Marjan) Congratulations Mr Azam for getting back your precious possessions, your buffaloes. Your promptness in taking actions to punish the police personnel is justifiable. It shows, you are aware of losing something. Your involvement in recovering your buffaloes back shows the police machinery works and it is not motionless. It conveys a message that no one can hurt your interest in any possible way.

Some believe cancer is incurable, quite a few think it is contagious and many others feel it can be caused by hair-dyes and anti-perspirants – myths like these expose our little knowledge about the much-feared disease which, if addressed timely, can be cured, doctors say.

According to health experts, many myths are associated with cancer, but adapting a healthy lifestyle can help people keep it at bay. India has more than three
million cancer patients, and these figures paint a pale picture of our understanding of the disease.

Lack of physical exercise is as detrimental to health as smoking, alcohol abuse and diabetes combined, it has been revealed.

According to chief Medical Officer Sir Harry Burns , international research had shown a lack of physical activity was a major risk factor for early death, the Scotsman reported.

Harry asserted that doctors should give patients advice on what exercise to do and ways to lead a healthier lifestyle.

In the immediate vicinity of Vijaypur, near Jammu, is a 12×12 room outside which scores of people make a beeline every day. The sparse room has a wooden table laden with piles of files, a few plastic chairs, a couple of cabinets and a squeaky ceiling, fan spinning slowly. This is the office of Labha Ram Gandhi, President, West Pakistani Refugee Action Committee, a virtually invisible, singular effort fighting for the rights of the refugees living in wretched conditions for sixty five years now.

Mohammed Abdul Hafeez, a native of Maripeda in Warangal district was a welder earning Rs. 3000 per month, his marriage was fixed on 6th May 2012 but a day before his marriage he met with an accident. Due to electrocution, his two legs and a hand were burned which were amputated on medical advice. His mother Haleema Begum does all his work. Doctors in Hyderabad advised him to get PROSTHETIC LIMBS for which 4 lakh have to be paid. Philanthropists may help him. His contact number is 9989663250.

–Siasat News

Unravelling the many aspects of the state of Jammu and Kashmir is a tough ask for anybody, given the region’s contradictions.

In his book, Jammu and Kashmir – The Tide Turns, the author, Jaibans Singh, while highlighting these contradictions, also seeks to send out a message of hope for a better future for a badly bruised and traumatized yet encouragingly resilient people in the new millennium.

This 12 chapter 305-page book published by Lancers takes the reader on a journey of Jammu and Kashmir that revisits some of the main events of the first decade of the new millennium (the 21st).

The government of Akhilesh Yadav in UP has asked the battered Muslims of Muzaffarnagar to sign an affidavit:

“Myself and members of my family who have left our village and our homes due to violent incidents in our village, will not now return to our original village and home under any circumstance.”

This undertaking, sought by a government which lays a special claim on Muslims, has made Firaq Gorakhpuri’s famous couplet stand on its head.

“Palat rahey hain ghareeb ul

Watan, palatna tha

Who koocha rookash e jannat ho

Ghar hai ghar phri bhi.”

An Indian woman has been named the Iron Queen after she set a record for lifting weights with her hair and ears.

Asha Rani, managed to lift a 8.5 stone with her curly hair tied in plaits and five stone with her ears, the Daily Express reported.

She had to lift the weights 10 centimetres off the ground and hold it there for five seconds to book her place in the Guinness Book of Records.

The 23-year-old woman said that she is extremely happy as she managed to do these two records, adding that it’s a great achievement.

Researchers have unveiled a newly found secret of the Hope diamond, which was brought from India in the 17th century.

French mineral scientist Francois Farges and Jeffrey Post, the Smithsonian’s curator of minerals found a 17th-century lead replica of the 45.52-carat diamond in 2009 among the National d’Histoire Naturelle’s collection, Fox News reported.

Since research shows that people contribute more than half of their waking hours on Facebook, businesses can very well use the opportunity to drive greater engagement with their audience. Facebook is one platform where a wider range of audience can be targeted, while economizing on the resources.

A handful of tips could help Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) expand their reach and target their audience better through Facebook. SMBs can put a little attention to their Facebook pages and keep them updated from time to time to gain better user interest.

A deep-rooted and evil conspiracy is embedded in the Telangana bill. While dividing the state, the bill seeks to preserve the unity of many sectors for common or central control. In the joy of winning statehood, Telangana politicians may miss the implications.

Noted theater actor and director, Mr. Mohammed Ali Baig of Hyderabad has been given Padma Shree award by Govt. of India. He followed the footsteps of his late father Qadir Ali Baig and actor-brother Moin Ali Baig. He founded Khader Ali Baig Foundation to commemorate the services rendered by his father, late Khader Ali Baig for Urdu Theater. It is more than 20 years of struggle in reviving Urdu theater in Hyderabad. He worked in major corporate houses before taking up his passion for theatre.

On receiving Padma Shree award he said,

Show this to your friends, children and/or grandchildren!
The year is 1910, over one hundred years ago. What a difference a century makes!

Here are some statistics for the Year 1910:
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The average life expectancy for men was 47 years.
Fuel for this car was sold in drug stores only.
Only 14 percent of the homes had a bathtub.
Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone.
There were only 8,000 cars and only 144 miles of paved roads.
The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph.
The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower !

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced its plans to withdraw all currency noted issued before 2005. Financial experts believe that the move is largely aimed at removing fake or counterfeit currency embedded into the financial system as well help uncover the big black market currency in the country. While the motives of RBI are unquestionably good, there has been some quantum of confusion amongst the general public as to whether the notes they have would need replacement or not. Read on to find out if the currency notes in your pocket or ones stashed in your locker needs to be changed.

He’d been captured by the Taliban in Afghanistan and escaped a bomb blast in Iraq. His bicycle’s been stolen six times but Somen Debnath from the eastern Indian state of West Bengal is determined to complete his mission to pedal 200,000 km to 191 countries by 2020 and reach out to 20 million people to spread awareness about HIV/AIDS. Now on his fourth foray, this time to Africa, he intends covering 40 countries on the continent.

Bangalore, Jan 23: An IAS officer from Karnataka, who is heading the State IT/BT Department as its Secretary, could be in trouble for his ”open admiration” of Delhi’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.

The IAS officer, Srivatsa Krishna, who had written an ”Open Letter to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal” in a national English Daily, had criticised the policies of the Congress governments in the States and the Centre and praised Kejriwal and his party.

The ”Open Letter” was published in The Times of India in its December 27, 2013 issue.

The Aam Admi effect is visible in many government offices dealing directly with the public. The crowd of touts waiting outside government offices has suddenly vanished.

Attendance :

The clerks manning the counters are reaching office before time for fear of stern action following complaint on the Delhi government helpline. An official said earlier the clerks used to make money from the touts by rejecting applications, but now they are helping the applicants forward their pleas.

Vanishing Brokers :

The general elections are but a few months away. Many of us have been working for years in the field of human rights, health, water rights, land rights, Dalit/Adivasi rights, women’s issues, civil rights. Many of us are writers, academics, teachers, students, activists. While we may think of our work as deeply political, we have not been engaged directly in politics, or at least electoral politics. 2014, however is different. The danger of communalism is imminent. The portends are dark already.

A new report suggests that the FBI invaded Martin Luther King Jr.’s privacy and tried to blackmail him into suicide.

FBI records give a detailed account of the organization’s efforts to derail King’s civil rights work.

In her new book ‘The Burglary: the Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI,’ journalist and author Betty Medsger chronicles Hoover’s obsession with King and overzealous violation of the leader’s privacy.

After delivering his “I Have A Dream Speech,” at the 1963 March on Washington, the government’s interest of the leader intensified.

A fake video enticing people to click on the picture of a bikini-clad woman on a beach has reportedly gone viral on social networking giant Facebook.

Thanks to the spam link, people kept on clicking on it and the post automatically got reposted through their Facebook profile page.

The post with a description, ‘Look what this girl is wearing at the beach in front of thousands of people!’, ‘During the summer holidays, this girl took the opportunity to do something unheard of! I bet no one can do the same,’ had lot of Facebookers fell for the spam, metro.co.uk reports.