Qayam Ali

A new study has suggested that consumers are unclear about the risks or benefits of e-cigarettes.

The Scotland study suggested that while some smokers consider electronic cigarettes a potential aid in quitting, some people who have already quit see them as a temptation to resume a habit they fought hard to ditch, Fox News reported.

Here is the high intensity anti-“dad bod” workout routine for fathers out there, who’d prefer a fitter physique.

As per Yahoo! Health, on average, fathers are 10 pounds heavier than non-dads as they’re carrying nearly an extra two inches on their waist and their bellies stick out an extra half-inch.

Celeb trainer and Barry’s Bootcamp partner Derek DeGrazio said that the new ‘trend’ suggests women are more attracted to the dad bod than a chiseled, Brad Pitt-like body, but his suggestion to Dads is to do his workout and lose the 10 pounds.

The economic crisis in Greece may trigger capital outflows from India and the government is consulting the RBI to deal with the situation, Finance Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi said.

Stating that the Greece situation has no direct impact on India, he said there may be some indirect effect via Europe on capital inflows and outflows here.

“Greece criss does not have any effect directly on India. (But) interest rate may firm up in Europe. In case of firming up of interest rate in Europe, there can be outflow of capital from India,” Mehrishi told reporters here.

A Delhi court on Monday deferred the framing of charges against cricketers Ajit Chandila, S. Sreesanth, Ankeet Chavan and others, including underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and his aide Chhota Shakeel, to July 25.

Additional Sessions Judge Neena Bansal Krishna, who was scheduled to pass the order today, said that the order sheet is not yet prepared.

Sreesanth today expressed hope that he would be free of all the charges levelled against when this case is next heard.

The revolutionary Solar Impulse 2 aircraft took off early today for a flight over the Pacific Ocean, a spokeswoman said, on the most ambitious leg of its quest to circumnavigate the globe powered only by the sun.

The two inmates who managed the daring escape were identified as Faizan and Javed both of whom were lodged in jail for burglaries.

In a major security breach at Tihar Jail, two undertrials scaled the wall of the ward they were lodged in and then dug a tunnel through the boundary wall to escape from one of the most high-security prisons in the country.

While one of them was later caught, the other one is still on the run and a mega manhunt has been launched to nab him.

At least 11 Afghan soldiers were killed in a Taliban ambush in western Afghanistan, officials said on Monday, as security forces face their first fighting season without NATO combat support. “The Taliban ambushed a convoy of soldiers in Karukh district of Herat, killing 11 Afghan army soldiers last evening. The soldiers were riding in pickup trucks,” Ehsanullah Hayat, spokesman for the governor of the western province of Herat, said.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday accused the Congress of being ‘communal’ and added that twisting Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s comments on Raksha Bandhan during his recent Mann ki Baat betrays the grand old party’s credentials.

Taking a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for postponing his Varanasi visit due to heavy
rainfall, Uttar Pradesh minister Azam Khan on Sunday said he should not play with the emotions of the people.

“Whether it’s fortune or misfortune of the people of Varanasi, they will decide, but keeping in mind the manner in which the visit has been cancelled for the second time… now the ‘badshah’ of the country should lay foundation stone or inaugurate schemes from his office instead of holding public meetings,” he said.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has reportedly flown back to Tehran on Sunday night to discuss a final bargaining position on his country’s nuclear programme as the June 30 deadline to hammer out a final deal looked set to be postponed.

Ayurveda entered our lives as tiny, plastic vials of Amritdhara, three drops in a teaspoon of sugar, the panacea for all stomach ailments. Yoga followed in its earliest manifestation as photographs of Pandit Nehru doing a head stand or ‘seesaasan’.

“Don’t try it without being guided by a guru,” elders would warn. “It can be dangerous.” We were tempted because we imagined headstands would make us brainy like Pandit Nehru.

The Telangana transport department has decided to make sure that everyone must wear helmet while driving. The department decided to put fines for not wearing the helmet, the traffic police now will be more stringent while enforcing the rule.

Currently, a helmet rule violation attracts only a fine between Rs 100 and Rs 200. The Road Transport and Safety Bill 2015, proposed by the Centre, seek to increase the fine amount to Rs 500-Rs 1,000.

Israeli naval forces boarded and took over an activist vessel seeking to break the Gaza blockade, and were escorting it to an Israeli port early on Monday, the military said, saying that the navy did not use force. “In accordance with international law, the Israeli Navy advised the vessel several times to change course,” it said in a statement. “Following their refusal the Navy visited and searched the vessel in international waters in order to prevent their intended breach of the maritime blockade of the Gaza Strip.”

A Wales court has held a man guilty of attempt to murder for attacking a Sikh dentist with a machete at North Wales’ Tesco Mold supermarket in January, a media report said on Friday.

Zack Davies, 26, of Chester Street in Mold, told the court that he never intended to kill Sarandev Bhambra, 24, when he launched his hammer and machete attack, Mirror online reported.

However, Mold Crown Court Judge Rhys Rowlands sent Davies to a high security hospital in Wales, where his psychiatric profile would be prepared, before he is sentenced.

Parents must look at how their kids negotiate and resolve fights so that they do the same to cement the relationship even stronger, says new study.

According to a study led by an Indian-origin researcher, several parents, especially mothers, use how their kids are getting along as a barometer for how well they are doing as a parent.

“When children fight with their siblings, they learn important lessons such as how to settle, negotiate and compromise. They begin to see conflict as a problem they can solve,” said lead study author Niyantri Ravindran from University of Illinois.

Google is reportedly developing a smart contact lens that will measure a wearer’s glucose levels by testing their tears.

In a patent application, Google showed off potential designs for how it could package a smart contact lens.

Google has previously said it is speaking to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) about potentially testing its lens, and that general availability of the contact lens is most likely at least five years away, Quartz.com reported.

The lens the company announced it is working on would be able to gauge a wearer’s glucose levels by just analysing tears.

India has witnessed a five-time (455 percent) increase in drug hauls over three years – 2011 to 2013 – according to data released by the government in parliament.

Officials have seized 105,173 tonnes of illegal drugs over this period, a reminder of a growing Indian problem on the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit trafficking, observed on June 26 by the UN.

With nearly 18 percent of the world’s population in the 15-64 age-group, India is a prime market for illicit opiates originating in both Southeast Asia and Southwest Asia, according to the World Drug Report 2014.

English school teachers in Punjab have flunked the English language test.From tenses to spellings, every thing they wrote was wrong, resulting in a rap on their knuckles from Education Minister Dalit Singh Cheema. They may now find themselves back in schools to unlearn the wrong.

Sample these: “Leak of interest”, “Staff of our school was vacant” and “Our school has situated remote area”.

In an indirect message to the Modi government in the wake of the controversy over Sushma Swaraj and Vasundhara Raje, BJP old hand L.K. Advani on Sunday said “Tainted Ministers must go” saying there is a need to maintain probity in public life and recalled how he resigned soon after his name cropped up in the Hawala scam.

After months of ‘will it? will it not?’, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has declared that – by political implication – Narendra Modi still remains its best bet in the Indian electoral arena.

Like the knight in shining armour, he is expected – yet again – to rescue the BJP from the demons which now and then crop up in the form of assembly elections in different states with varying degrees of significance in the larger Indian political system.

For the present, the Akhilesh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh has bought peace with the family of the slain journalist, Jagendra Singh, with a Rs.30 lakh compensation and the promise of government jobs for his two sons.

It, however, remains open to question whether the government will be able to keep its third promise of bringing the guilty to book.

Ecstatic after winning the Canada Open women’s doubles title with Jwala Gutta, Indian shuttler Ashwini Ponnappa today said consistency has been the key to their success and this victory is a big boost ahead of the prestigious World Championship in August.

The 2010 Commonwealth Games gold-medallist pair of Ashwini and Jwala defeated the top-seeded Dutch pair of Eefje Muskens and Selena Piek 21-19 21-16 to clinch the US $50,000 Canada Open Grand Prix tournament last night.

The trailer of upcoming film Brothers, starring Akshay Kumar and Sidharth Malhotra, has crossed six million views on YouTube.

Directed by Agneepath helmer Karan Malhotra, the movie is a remake of the 2011 Hollywood film Warrior, which starred Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton.

Filmmaker Karan Johar, who is producing the action-drama, took to Twitter along with the starcast to thank fans.

“Thank you for the continuous love!,” he wrote.

Following a spate of bombings in Afghanistan, Interior Minister Noorul Haq Ulomi has reportedly postponed his Pakistan visit, citing ‘serious security issues’ at home, the ministry has said The ministry added that the visit will place at a ‘suitable time’, reported The Express Tribune.

An Afghan diplomat in Islamabad said that new dates will be worked out in consultation with Pakistani officials.

The court fixed the matter for pronouncement of order on July 25, saying that it will seek clarifications, if any, in the matter.

The order on framing of charges in the IPL-6 spot fixing case in which suspended cricketers Ajit Chandila, S Sreesanth, Ankeet Chavan and others, including underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and his aide Chhota Shakeel are accused, was today deferred for July 25 by a Delhi court.

Additional Sessions Judge Neena Bansal Krishna, who was scheduled to pass the order today, said that the order sheet is not prepared yet.