Yoga improves men’s sex life

Yoga not only improves lung capacity, stronger bones and lower risk of heart disease, but it also helps men have better sex, it has been revealed.

During a Huffington Post Live discussion with men who love yoga, host Caitlyn Becker got the scoop on how the practice benefits them in the bedroom.

Life coach Joseph Robinson pointed out that during great sex, “you want to be in your body, you want to be really present,” and that sensation comes with yoga.

Talkatora initiative : Nitish Kumar and Mulayam Singh echoing each others concerns can turn into formidable force

Fourteen political parties came together at a Convention against Communalism and for Social Harmony. Between them they represented governments in Tripura, Orissa, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and the direct opposition to existing governments in Kerala, West Bengal, Assam, Maharashtra. Not a small political force, thus, by any stretch of the imagination.

Internet, a ‘double-edged sword’ when it comes to youngsters

Internet forums are both good and bad for people, oxford researchers have concluded. The researchers found that Internet provides a support network for socially isolated young people, but it is also linked to an increased risk of suicide and self-harm among vulnerable adolescents

Following what is thought to be the biggest review of existing studies into internet use and young people, the researchers suggest that in future, clinical assessments of such young people should include questions about the online content they have viewed.

Most kids using smartphones or tabs before they can talk

Tech-savvy children are using mobile phones or tablet computers before they can even talk, a new UK study has found.

Some 70 per cent kids know how to use the gadgets before they even start primary school, researchers found.

By the time children are five years old, they have typically sent 116 texts and 85 emails, the study found.

More than one in four – 29 per cent – of youngsters are playing games such as Angry Birds on smartphones and tablets before they can string a sentence together, according to the study by electronic learning company VTech.

Neo Muslim barber refuses to shave the beards of the Muslims

(Siasat News) Mr. Narsing Rao embraced Islam and change his name as Mohammed Nazeer. Consequent on his change of religion to Islam, his life has completely changed. He started practicing all the routines of Prophet Mohammed (SAWS). His hair cutting saloon is in Kurmaguda. He has announced that he will not shave the beards of Muslims. He has put a banner to this effect on his hair cutting saloon. He was feeling uneasy to shave the beards of the Muslims after he embraced Islam. He says that the Muslims are not following the Sunnah of Prophet Mohammed (SAWS) by shaving their beards.

Fire work at Big Boss 7 : Kushal ex enters the House

Model Candy Brar, who will enter ‘Bigg Boss-Saath 7’ Saturday, says that she will be more than happy if she finds that her ex-boyfriend Kushal Tandon has moved on with Gauhar Khan.

Brar, who is the ex-girlfriend of current captain of the house Kushal Tandon, said her main aim to enter the house is to present her real self after evicted contestant Vivek Mishra maligned her reputation during his stay on the show.

“Vivek Mishra had said a lot about me without knowing me personally. I am not a reality show buff but I am entering the show to present my real self,” Brar told PTI.

Researchers use Apple MacBook to prove God exists

Two researchers have reportedly claimed that they have found the proof of God’s existence by using their Apple MacBook, some mathematical calculation and an early 20th century theorem.

The theorem belongs originally to Anselm of Canterbury and was taken on by Austrian mathematician Kurt Godel states that God by definition is that for which no greater can be conceived. God exists in the understanding and if He exists in the understanding, we could imagine Him to be greater by existing in reality. Therefore, God must exist.

More men undergoing cosmetic surgery to enhance work opportunities

Men are increasing going under knife so as to increase their work opportunities, a researcher has said.

Dr Russell Knudsen, past president of the Australasian College of Cosmetic Surgery , said that men want to look youthful for employment opportunities or to remain at the top of their field.

He said that appearance matters when men are looking for a job, particularly if they are over forty, the Daily Telegraph reported.

Knudsen said that men are becoming increasingly aware of the need to look beautiful, fresh and happy.

Gen Y girls more career oriented than male counterparts

A new survey suggests that go-getting girls are forging careers and settling down faster than men their age.

According to the Australia’s biggest Gen Y marketing survey, young men are more likely to “live in the moment”, while women plan ahead for financial security, the annual Lifelounge Sweeney report showed.

One in three teenage boys and men aged 16 to 30 reckons the future will “take care of itself”, compared to just one in four girls and young women, News.com.au reported.

60pc women get sexually harassed by male colleagues at work

(ANI): A new study has revealed that 60 percent of women are harassed by a male colleague in office.

Almost a quarter of female workers have had a more senior member of staff make a pass at them, but only 27 percent of victims have reported the matter to their boss, Metro.co.uk reported.

Employment lawyer Claire Dawson, of Slater and Gordon, which commissioned the poll said that we are well into the 21st century now and the message doesn’t seem to have got through to everyone that this just isn’t acceptable.

Breast milk protein that may protect babies from HIV identified

A new research has identified a substance present in breast milk that neutralizes HIV and may protect babies from acquiring HIV from their infected mothers.

Researchers at Duke Medicine have for the first time identified the protein, called Tenascin-C or TNC, which had previously been recognized as playing a role in wound healing, but had not been known to have antimicrobial properties.

‘Robert Kennedy stole JFK’s brain after assassination’

The brain of assassinated American President John F Kennedy that went missing after his autopsy may have been stolen from the US national archives by his brother Robert Kennedy, a new book has claimed.

“Not all the evidence from the assassination is at the National Archives. One unique, macabre item from the collection is missing, President Kennedy’s brain,” James Swanson writes in his new book titled ‘End of Days: The Assassination of John F Kennedy’.

Maintenance for second wife if man lied about first wedding:SC

Marrying second time by hiding existence of first wedlock is illegal but the second wife is to be treated as the “legally wedded wife” for the purpose of getting maintenance from her husband under Hindu Marriage Act, the Supreme Court has ruled.

A bench of justices Ranjana Prakash Desai and A K Sikri said that the apex court’s earlier judgement denying maintenance to the second wife would not apply to those cases where a man marriages the second time by keeping the lady in the dark about the first surviving marriage.

School that lets kids smoke on their lunch break slammed by charity

Pupils at the Elmete Central School in Roundhay, Leeds, were allowed to smoke while they were on a breaks from classes.

The school has been banned from the practice and has been put under a probe after a whistleblower let the authorities know about the happenings in school.

Anti-smoking charity Ash slammed the policy, describing that it is “totally inappropriate.”

About 75 pupils with educational and behavioural issues attend the school, the Daily Star reported.

Doctor who uses Quranic verses to popularize the need for birth control

An Assamese doctor who uses Quranic verses to popularize the need for birth control left for Australia Wednesday to take part in a meeting to promote vasectomy.

Illias Ali, a professor of surgery at the Guwahati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), is the only Indian to attend the Friday event at Adelaide on the occasion of the first World Vasectomy Day.

The objective of the event is to popularize vasectomy among males, to lessen the burden of family planning on women and to accelerate the process of stabilizing the global population.

Dua and Pertinent points to remember for Zabiha (Islamic Slaughter) & Halal Meat

Complaints are being received regarding the manner in which animals are being slaughtered and the process thereby. While the Muslim community has always upheld this great practice with ardency and eagerness, ignorance and negligence regarding the proper method of Qurbani can diminish the rewards and virtue of this noble obligation. The following are some of the undesirable acts observed on this occasion.

 

Pakistani pilgrim walks 6,387 km for Haj

A Pakistani national covered 6,387 km on foot to make his Haj pilgrimage to Mecca, the Al Arabiya television channel said Sunday.

Kharlzada Kasrat Rai, 37, set off for his pilgrimage June 7 from Karachi, and walked across Iran, Iraq and Jordan to arrive in Saudi Arabia Oct 1.

Kasrat Rai told Al Arabiya that he had ventured on his three-month Haj trek as a mission of peace.

“I want peace in the entire world and I want the Islamic nations to unite like the European Union,” he said, adding that he also wanted to “condemn terrorism in all its manifestations”.

Moral instruction in schools important for moulding children

The scrapping of moral instruction classes in the schools, the near absence of physical sporting activities and lack of adequate parental supervision at home are some of the reasons for students turning into killers or committing suicides, a cross-section of people in this southern metropolis say.

The general lowering of tolerance levels in society, the influence of social media and teachers becoming more focussed on completing the syllabus are some of the other reasons, they added.

Facebook to end privacy feature, makes everybody searchable on site

(ANI): Facebook is reportedly ending a privacy feature that allowed users to restrict who can search for them on the site.

The social media giant said that it was removing that setting that controlled whether users could be found when people type their names in the search bar, as only a single-digit percentage of the total 1.2 billion people on the site were using the setting, stuff.co.nz reports.

Facebook said that those who are concerned about the search/privacy.html”> privacy can use their settings to limit the audience for their posts about themselves. (ANI)

Kuwait’s ‘gay tests’ aimed at keeping LGBT expats out of Gulf

A senior Kuwaiti health official is planning to introduce a ‘ gay detector test’ at the airport to keep LGBT expatriates out of Gulf Cooperation Countries (GCC).

Director of Public Health Yousuf Mindkar said he wants to add the gay test to the regular medical screening at Kuwait’s International Airport to determine the sexual orientation of the expatriates, the New York Daily News reports.

According to the report, the medical reports, of those who fail the test, will be stamped with an ” unfit ” and their visas will be disqualified.

Feeling blue, blame it on the Net

Shweta Mathur has 700 ‘friends’ on a popular social networking site. Yet, when she sat in a psychologist’s office after her parents’ suspected suicidal tendencies, she said she didn’t have a “real friend”. In an increasingly connected world, the boundary between the real and the virtual is blurring. Mental health experts say this is a key reason for rising cases of depression among youngsters, driving some to suicide.

Palestinian man calls off marriage after to-be wife ‘liked’ pal’s Facebook post

A Palestinian man has reportedly called off his marriage with a woman he was engaged to for the past 18 months, because of her apparently inoffensive comment on a post on Facebook.

The woman, identified as M.A, met the man via Facebook, who broke off because of a ‘Like’ and congratulatory comment she posted on the page of a female friend.

According to Gulf News, the man, a Palestinian US resident identified as A.A was scheduled to marry the woman in the coming summer, but through online messages, which read as: ‘You are divorced, divorced, divorced’, he called off the marriage.

Yusuffali MA still most powerful Indian in Gulf

(IANS) Abu Dhabi-based businessman Yusuffali MA emerged as the most powerful Indian businessman in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries for the fourth time in a row in a ‘100 most powerful Indians’ list announced by Arabian Business magazine.

Yusuffali, who owns the Lulu Hypermarkets chain of stores, took the top slot ahead of food giant Feroz Allana.

The GCC comprises Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

I was raped at knifepoint: Madonna

w’Queen of Pop’ Madonna has revealed that she was raped at knifepoint in New York while she was still struggling to make it big as a singer.

The 55-year-old singer opened up about the horrific incident in a guest column of the November issue of Harper’s Bazaar.

“New York wasn’t everything I thought it would be. It did not welcome me with open arms. The first year, I was held up at gunpoint. Raped on the roof of a building I was dragged up to with a knife in my back,” Madonna said.

Jazeera takes her struggle against sand mafia to Delhi

With her two-month-long dharna outside the state secretariat agianst sand mafia failing to yield results, 31-year-old mother of three minor children Jazeera has now shifted her struggle to the national capital.

Jazeera and her children, who also sat with her in the sit-in, left for New Delhi from here by train yesterday to continue her struggle before parliament.

While leaving the state capital, Jazeera regretted that the Kerala government did not give due attention to her campaign for a crack down on illegal sand mining by a network of “mafia with high connections”.