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AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa, who is lodged in Parapana Agrahara prison here after being convicted in an illegal assets case, is keeping good health and there was no need for any panic, a top Karnataka police official said here.

“I appeal to the people of Tamil Nadu not to panic. Madam Jayalalithaa is keeping good health,” DIG of Prisons M Jaisimha said, seeking to scotch speculations about her well being.

Her blood pressure and sugar levels are normal, he said.

Will people in Delhi stop littering the roads and spitting in public places as a result of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Clean India programme? What will be the campaign’s impact?

These will be among the many aspects that students of Delhi University will study for a report which they will submit to Ministry of Environment and Forests after completion of five years of ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’.

Conservation campaigners have let out the warning that due to poaching of ivory, elephants and rhinos could be wiped out within the next two decades.

According to the Independent, wildlife campaigners said that according to the reports almost 35,000 elephants and 1,000 rhinos were sacrificed to fulfill the demand for ivory and rhino horn.

Kate Moss has posed in pink Stella McCartney bra, exposing one of her boobs to the world for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

The 40-year-old model, who is seen pouting and smouldering stare in the snap, placed a pink breast cancer awareness ribbon on the exposed boob, the Daily Star reported.

McCartney said that Moss is a strong feminine woman with a daughter and a husband, that is, a strong family unit and for her it was important to bring awareness to this campaign to keep families together.

Chronic consumption of melatonin, a hormone found in animals, plants, and microbes, helps combat obesity and type-two diabetes, says a study.

“Melatonin is abundant in vegetables, spices, herbs, tea, coffee, fruit, seeds and nuts. This is one of the main reasons why these foods are healthy,” said lead researcher Ahmad Agil, a professor at University of Granada in Spain.

The study involved several experiments conducted on Zucker obese rats.

An eight-year-old boy has become the first victim of dengue in the national capital this year after he succumbed to the mosquito-borne infection.

The boy Rishi Qaddafi, a resident of South Delhi, died of dengue on Friday at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital.

“In this case, the child was already suffering from leukaemia (blood cancer) and had developed dengue,” said Dr Dhiren Gupta, senior consultant, Pediatric intensive care and Pediatric Pulmonology.

There is a need for concerted efforts to address the issue of sexual harassment at workplace and Justice Verma committee recommendations made in this regard should be included in the legal curriculum, senior advocate Indira Jaising has said.

Jaising, who was the first woman Additional Solicitor General, called upon law students to take up litigation and encouraged them to come forward in assuming leadership roles.

Actress Sonali Bendre, who was initially hesitant about taking up a fiction TV show due to her son, is glad that men nowadays are giving importance to their child’s upbringing. She credits her husband for helping her to manage work and family.

The ‘Zakhm’ star has a nine-year-old son Ranveer with husband and filmmaker Goldie Behl. She believes that now fathers take equal interest in their children’s development as much as mothers do.

“Mothers were only involved in bringing up of their children. Now fathers are also involved. Earlier it was just about mothers,” she said.

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, which keeps a tab on the sun 24 hours a day, has observed a snaking, extended filament of solar material on the front portion of the sun, NASA said in a statement.The SDO has observed the gigantic filament for several days as it rotated around with the sun.

If straightened out, the filament would reach almost across the whole sun, about one million miles or 100 times the size of Earth, the statement added.

People may soon have flying cars like the one Mr. Weasley had in ‘ Harry Potter’, as six institutes across Europe are trying to develop a personal air commutation vehicle.

The project called ‘MyCopter’ has been on for quite some time but would seemingly take more as challenges like air traffic systems, crash avoidance technology and accessibility were still unprecedented, the CNN reported.

Ibuprofen may lower lung inflammation and help elderly fight tuberculosis bacteria, a new study has found.

Immune cells from old mouse lungs fought tuberculosis bacteria as effectively as cells from young mice after lung inflammation was reduced by ibuprofen, researchers from Ohio State University found.

The ibuprofen had no effect on the immune response to TB in young mice, the study found.

Gold should be put to work for the Indian economy, creating jobs, developing skills, generating exports and revenues, the World Gold Council (WGC) said in its Vision 2020 for the country.

“Our vision for gold is that it should be put to work for the economy, creating jobs, developing skills, generating exports and revenues – an essential part of the financial, economic and social structure of the country,” a statement by WGC said here on Saturday.

Stocks of gold in India currently stand at over 22,000 tonnes held by individual households and temples.

A campaign in the Delhi University will be launched soon by the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) students to counter ‘love jihad’ in an attempt to raise voice against an alleged “atrocity against women”.

According to ABVP leaders, the campaign will be launched soon after the varsity reopens in mid-October after vacation and includes sensitizing and raising awareness on ‘love jihad’.

Telugu actor Ram Charan and Mani Rathinam had declared that Dulquer Salman will act in his place in a film to be directed by Mani Rathinam.

Ram Charan was the son the Telugu superstar Chiranjeevi. His film Govindudu Andarivadele directed by Krishna Vamsi which has Prakash Raj in the cast was released yesterday.

Markets seemed to be in consolidation mode after strong rally as the benchmark S&P BSE Sensex and CNX Nifty declined 58.33 points and 23.30 points, respectively during the truncated week as operators decided to play safe after the Reserve Bank kept key interest rates unchanged.

Realty, metal, banking, power, capital goods and FMCG sectors attracted profit-booking and mainly weighed on Sensex.

Newly-wed couple actor George Clooney and British human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin have reportedly jetted to the North Island in Seychelles for their honeymoon.

According to a website X17Online.com, the couple is staying at a luxurious resort on the island, which can only be accessed by helicopter, reports dailymail.co.uk.

Clooney and Alamuddin exchanged vows at a ceremony in Venice Sep 27.

Clooney’s close friend and actor Brad Pitt recommended the private getaway for the duo’s honeymoon.

A six-year-old girl was found murdered with multiple stab wounds in Chaksu town of the district today.

Shijen went missing from her house yesterday afternoon, police said, adding that her body was found today near a pond, about one km away from the house.

“She was stabbed to death as the body has injury marks in head and other parts.

“Reason of the murder is not known,” Station House Officer (SHO) Chaksu Hemraj said, adding that the possibility of rape has been ruled out.

No arrest was made so far and the matter is under investigation, Chaksu Hemraj said.

–PTI

Ladies, try not to stress too much. New research says anxious, easily-stressed women are more prone to developing Alzheimer’s later in life.

After following 800 women for nearly four decades, researchers say certain personality dispositions can put you at risk for the memory-robbing disease, reports huffingtonpost.com.

Middle-aged women with an average age of 46 were given a battery of personality tests and asked to make note of any periods of prolonged stress longer than one month to determine certain traits and tendencies.

The dawn-to-dusk bandh called by All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) in protest against the conviction of J Jayalalithaa in a disproportionate assets case disrupted normal life in Puducherry on Saturday.

The bandh commenced from 6 am today in protest against the ‘false case’ imposed on former Tamil Nadu chief minister and her ‘wrongful imprisonment’.

Buses went off the roads while shops, business establishments, petrol pumps and cinema houses remained closed in the union territory as part of the bandh, police said.

An undertrial rape accused, who was admitted to hospital after alleged suicide attempt, has died here in southeastern Jhalawar district, police said today. 25-year-old Mukesh Tanwar was admitted to the hospital in a “critical condition” on Tuesday afternoon after he attempted suicide with a long piece of cloth in the barrack’s toilet for prisoners in the district session court, where he was brought for an appearance, police said.

Tanwar died in the district hospital last night during treatment, Station House Officer (SHO), Kotwali police station Sunil Kumar said.

Filmmaker S.P. Jananathan, who is known for pin-pointing at societal issues through his films, has named the principal characters in his upcoming Tamil drama “Purampokku” after real people from Indian history.

“Purampokku”, which is currently on floors, features Arya, Karthika Nair, Vijay Sethupathi and Shaam in the lead roles.

Sizzling beauty Hansika Motwani enjoys huge fan following and even Tamil Tambis constructed temple for her.

But recently Hansika who is active on twitter and facebook faced fans fury. Earlier there were rumours that she will be making her debut in Malayalam and enthrall Mollywood movie lovers. However, Hansika rubbished all those reports saying they were just hearsay and baseless.

If rumours are to believe, the sizzling beauty of Tollywood Kajal is demanding extra pay from her producers.

Kajal with plenty of projects in her kitty is demanding 1 crore according to her market values.

None is ready to pay excess of that. Heroines in South are paid the one third comparing to the Bollywood top heroines, confessed kajal further declaring that she has not forced anyone to pay the extra amount.

A study has questioned the accepted wisdom that aggressive treatment with high-drug dosages over long duration is the best way to stem the emergence and spread of resistant pathogens.

The logic behind aggressive treatment is to kill off as many microbes as you can, so that few will be around to evolve into resistant forms.
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However, the new study reveals the lack of evidence behind the practice of aggressive treatment in many cases.

Twitter will provide the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with $10 million over the next five years to analyse every tweet that has gone out since the network was launched in 2006. The MIT Media Lab will use the money to establish and operate a Laboratory for Social Machines.

“As part of the new programme, Twitter will also provide full access to its real-time, public stream of tweets, as well as the archive of every tweet dating back to the first, the MIT Media Lab said in a statement announcing the initiative.