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A new study has suggested that exposing skin to sunlight may help reduce blood pressure, cut the risk of heart attack and stroke – and even prolong life.

Researchers from the University of Edinburgh have shown that when our skin is exposed to the sun`s rays, a compound is released in our blood vessels that helps lower blood pressure.

The findings suggest that exposure to sunlight improves health overall, because the benefits of reducing blood pressure far outweigh the risk of developing skin cancer.

An ingredient that naturally occurs in breast milk might be used to prevent premature babies from developing a deadly intestinal condition that currently is largely incurable, a new study has revealed.

The story begins with a baby who is born too early, meaning before 36 weeks gestation, said senior author David Hackam, M.D., Ph.D., Watson Family Professor of Surgery, Pitt School of Medicine, and co-director of the Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment Center at Children’s Hospital.

London, May 06 (ANI): A California based single mother made a very fortunate error at the intersection of ‘Fate and Lottery.’

Thuan Le is thanking her lucky stars after mistakenly slipping an extra dollar into the self-service Lotto machine at her local CVS store in Mission Viejo, the Fox News reported.

The extra dollar wound up getting Le the ‘SuperLotto Plus’ ticket holding the five winning numbers – 5, 33, 25, 46, 32 – plus the Mega number, 26, which was randomly selected in the April 24 drawing.

Doctors have warned about an “aggressive” new sexually-transmitted superbug that could ultimately prove more deadly than AIDS.

According to reports, the antibiotic-resistant strain of gonorrhea HO41 was found in Japan two years ago in a 31-year-old female sex worker.

Alan Christianson, a doctor of naturopathic medicine, recently told CNBC that the superbug might be a lot worse than AIDS in the short run, as the bacteria is more aggressive and will affect more people quickly, Fox News reported.

Indian Muslims’ antipathy towards the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is known. The party hasn’t thought much about Muslims in term of being equal citizens. Instead it has worked tirelessly to antagonise a community that comprises more than 15 percent of the Indian population.

It has raised demands for Muslims to abandon their places of worship, tried to provoke riots and in many cases failed to act while a state burned and burned. But Muslims too have to share the blame for antagonising the BJP, by never showing an inclination towards thinking it as an option.

(Kuldip Nayar) UNTIL recently, one refrain of a song in praise of slum dwellers was on most Indian lips. The refrain, Jai Ho-Jai Ho, had attracted so much attention that it fetched an Oscar Award. What the song conveyed was how those who were on the margin were doing their best to come up, without challenging the society. There was no demolition of houses or buildings which had come up illegally. The worst came only a few days ago.

Sydney, May 1 (ANI): New Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer’s compensation package totals more than 70 million dollars, including her basic pay, performance bonus and restricted stock, according to a regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Mayer’s pay package is made up of 4,54, 862 dollars, as much as 1.12 million dollar in an annual bonus, and 35 million dollars in stock options, the News.com.au reports.

A practical demonstration of humanity, national integrity and fraternity was witnessed on Sunday, in a small village of Goraipally village in Yadgirgutta, 70 km away from Hyderabad, where G Madhav Reddy a retired official of electricity board and his wife Lakhshmi Reddy performed the marriage of their Muslim daughter Farzana alias Khazana. The couple had adopted Farzana when she was just 8. Farzana’s parents had died during her childhood. She was born in the family of Mohammed Jamal.

Mid-term polls seem inevitable in India. Most provincial leaders are losing their influence. They want to cash in on their depleting assets before too long and may want to extract the maximum before they lose the advantage they enjoy at present. Mulayam Singh Yadav of the Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh is rapidly losing ground. So is Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal. Much will depend on how the leaders can hold on to their own before the polls take place.

Former presidential candidate Ron Paul has come under a vicious smear attack for his formation of an institute dedicated to cleansing America of foreign control, ending the power of the Federal Reserve and stopping the deluge of false flag terrorism that has been unleashed on America.

Paul’s organization has drawn upon the few public figures in America that have stood against the “Zionist machine.” It hasn’t taken long for the first attacks.

Saudi Arabia’s Nitaqat law, designed to localize labor, could cost hundreds of thousands of expatriates their jobs. The prospect of unemployment and even deportation has triggered a wave of anxiety among Indian expatriates in the desert kingdom.

Last month, airports in the southern Indian state of Kerala – the majority of the Indian workforce in Saudi Arabia is from this state – saw hundreds of downcast Indians returning home with their personal belongings.

These findings are the result of a single study and more research is needed on the effects of mango consumption on human health.

Consumption of mangoes may potentially have a positive effect on blood sugar in obese individuals and help to limit inflammation, according to a new research.

The study led by Edralin Lucas, Ph.D., associate professor of nutritional sciences at Oklahoma State University, examined the effects of daily mango consumption on clinical parameters and body composition in obese subjects (body mass index, BMI = 30kg/m2).

As the FBI reels from its bungled Boston bombing case, where the suspects turned out to have been contacted and perhaps monitored (even directed) by the FBI up to 2 years prior to the attacks, the Chicago Tribune has now reported of yet another bizarre FBI entrapment case hyped as a “foiled” would-be terrorist.

In its article, “FBI: Aurora man wanted to join al-Qaida in Syria,” the Chicago Tribune would report:

Burma’s Muslims are still having a pretty awful time of it. Last year, the country’s Buddhist majority launched a series of attacks on the minority Rohingya Muslim population, supposedly because they’re not “ethnically pure”. The attacks have continued this year and now include the general Muslim population, as well as the ethnic Rohingyas.

(By Vidya Bhushan Rawat) Kashmir is restive at the moment and for the past three days there is information blockade in the valley as people are not able to watch TV channels of their choice, nor can they access internet. In the absence of free flow of information the only thing which get strengthened and spread is rumour and very unfortunately the government which claims to bring ‘openness’ to our lives, is doing such things which endanger national security. So far three lives have been lost in the protests against hanging and the valley is completely directionless.

(By Madhusree Chatterjee) Education is the key to conserving a country’s cultural heritage and it is manifest nowhere as in India, which has been playing with non-formal education models since early historical ages and is now touching modern schools with their regimented eduction systems.

Beginning with the traditional Vedic gurukuls, ancient universities like Taxila and Nalanda, monasteries and madrassas, there has been a gradual return-to-the roots movements in the last three decades in academia.

With the abnormal increase in Gold prices, many investors had started accumulating Gold. They had an apprehension that after the enormous hike in Gold rates, a day would come when heavy decrease in prices would be likely. Due to continuous hike in Gold prices for the past two to three years, people had started thinking that there won’t be any fall of Gold prices.

A well-organised public relations campaign to whitewash Narendra Modi of his multiple sins is on.

The names of Debdulal Bandyopadhyay and Nilima Sanyal may not ring a bell with today’s generation, but they were hugely popular in India and the then East Pakistan during 1971 with thousands tuning in to listen to them on AIR for the latest developments in the runup to the war of liberation that led to birth of Bangladesh.

As the news updates on AIR are a part of Bangladesh’s treasured history, Dhaka has requested New Delhi for the tapes of the newsreaders whose every syllable was heard with rapt attention during the nine-month war in which India played a crucial role.

Allah has told us in the Quran that Satan is our enemy and we should do everything to keep Satan out of our lives. Satan hurts us by misguiding us toward evil deeds, making the bad look acceptable, bringing misfortune in our lives and families, and so on. The more we succeed in keeping Satan’s tactics and curses away from our lives and our homes, the fewer will be the fights, arguments, misunderstandings, etc., and the more will we enjoy Allah’s peace and blessings.

New Delhi, April 10 (ANI): Events in Afghanistan had gathering momentum in March and quite apparently preparations for end 2014 were now looking serious and urgent.

Closely following the visit of Defence Secretary Chuck Hegel to Kabul earlier in March, Secretary of State John Kerry visited Kabul on an unannounced private visit to repair the damage.

This was after the fiasco when the plan to hand over Baghram Prison to Afghan authorities was postponed during Hegel’s visit.

Press Council of India Chairman Markandey Katju on Sunday lashed out at media for “demonising” the entire Muslim community whenever bomb blasts occurred, and declared that he would not allow it to do such “devilish” things.

Whenever bomb blasts occurred, television channels start showing, within an hour, that an e-mail or SMS had come either from the Indian Mujahideen, Jaish-e-Mohammed or the Harkat-ul-Jihad, claiming responsibility.

Justice Katju was addressing a symposium on “Reporting terror: how sensitive is the media?” organised by The Hindu here.

In this lies a great secret from the secrets of tawhid. This is that the heart cannot become firm, it cannot find satisfaction and it cannot find tranquility except by reaching out to Him. Everything that is loved and desired besides Him then it must be desired for other than His sake. The One Who is desired, the One Who is beloved in and of Himself, with Whom all matters find their final goal is only one. It is impossible that the final goal be to two destinations just as it is impossible that the beginning of the creation be from two sources.

Only by changing the mindset, the development and preservation of civilization of Urdu is possible. Govt. is prepared to take steps for the development of Urdu. By developing Urdu and Telugu, Govt. will ensure the progress of Urdu.

Chief Minister of A.P., Mr. N.Kiran Kumar Reddy expressed these thoughts while addressing the conference on “Changing Scenario and Urdu” held at Jubilee Hall yesterday.

The far-reaching Right To Education Act, now in its fourth year of implementation, obliges the central and state governments to provide eight years of free and compulsory education to all children between 6 and 14 years of age. But the country is a long way from achieving that goal. India has always been a land of extreme dichotomies and the most extreme is that while the country is aspiring to become an economic superpower, it has an education system that is failing generations of children.