shameen Pearls rich in essential minerals can help treat killer diseases like cancer, a leading scientist has claimed.
In a series of experiments by Ajai Kumar Sonkar at the Pearl Aquaculture Research Foundation in Port Blair, pearls produced through special culture technique have been found to contain traces of several metals and minerals which are known to have major health benefits.
“His liver got infected. He could not digest his food after a certain point of time. During his last days, he could not take solid food so he was on liquid intake,” Rajesh Khanna`s close friend Vijay Zaveri told reporters.
Rajesh Khanna was admitted to Lilavati Hospital in suburban Bandra June 23 and after staying in the hospital for two weeks, he was discharged.
The actor had been battling health issues since April and as per reports, his health deteriorated in May and since then, he was on liquid intake.
One hundred Taliban fighters have laid down arms in Afghanistan and joined a government-backed peace process, an official said on Tuesday.
The militants laid down their arms Monday in Qalai Now, the capital of Badghis province, some 550 km from Kabul, Xinhua reported.
Provincial government spokesman Sharafudin Majidi told reporters that the militants were active in Qadis and Muqar districts of the province.
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A NATO helicopter crashed on Wednesday in western Afghanistan, injuring two troops serving with the US-led military coalition, NATO said.
No other information was disclosed about the crash in the relatively peaceful west. The crash is under investigation.
Separately, NATO reported that a service member was killed yesterday during an insurgent attack in the south.
Insurgents are trying to regain territory they’ve lost during the past two years when tens of thousands of coalition and Afghan forces routed them from their strongholds in the south.
Indonesia’s communications and information ministry has shut down more than one million pornographic websites ahead of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
Minister Tifatul Sembiring said Wednesday that his office would target more sites in the upcoming month.
The closed websites were all run from abroad, he said.
“We will block more porn sites during Ramadan, though that doesn’t mean that we will allow such sites to operate during the rest of the year,” the minister said.
After successfully managing the elections of the president and the vice president, the next challenge for the government is to get its candidate elected to the vacant post of the Rajya Sabha deputy chairman, said government sources Wednesday.
Congress member P.J. Kurien is the front-runner for the post, said sources in the United Progressive Alliance, indicating the party did not want to give it to the allies.
The post is lying vacant after the term of K. Rahman Khan ended in April.
Hamid Ansari Wednesday filed his nomination papers for being re-elected to the office of vice president in the presence of senior United Progressive Alliance (UPA) leaders, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
The nominations were handed over to Lok Sabha Secretary General T.K. Viswanathan, who is returning officer for Aug 7 vice presidential polls.
India is all set to give the go-ahead for an ambitious mission to Mars, expected in November next year, a top Space Department official said here today.
“A lot of studies have been done on the possible mission to Mars”, Secretary in the Department of Space and Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation K Radhakrishnan told reporters here.
“We have come to the last phase of approvals”, he said. “And I am sure that, maybe soon, we will be hearing an announcement on the Mars mission”.
Researchers have uncovered an important step in healthy tissue formation – signals that cause proteins to form the glue that binds cells into tissues but may also cause cancers and inflammation if disrupted.
“Many of the proteins in this network have been implicated in cancer, meaning this discovery will provide valuable insights into how healthy tissues are disturbed in disease,” said Alpha Yap, professor at the University of Queensland`s Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB).
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has ruled that cocoa powder and dark chocolate can help people improve blood circulation – a claim made by Barry Callebaut, the world’s largest maker of chocolate products.
The Swiss group, which supplies food companies such as Nestle and Hershey with cocoa and chocolate products, said on Tuesday it had provided evidence to EFSA that eating 10 grammes of dark chocolate or its equivalent in cocoa that were high in flavanols helped blood flow.
Bollywood may have come of age in terms of its stories and movie-making but when it comes to accepting married heroines with open arms, the film industry is still apprehensive about it.
The recent report of Sanjay Leela Bhansali ousting Kareena Kapoor from his ambitious project ‘Ram Leela’ on the grounds of Bebo’s impending marriage, reiterates the fact that when in Bollywood, only ‘single’ and young heroines can rule the roost. The moment they get married, they have to bitterly bid goodbye to their careers, so what if they are the reigning queens of the industry.
Superstar Rajesh Khanna passed away on Wednesday afternoon at his residence Aashirwad in Mumbai. He was 70. He had been battling prolonged illness for a long time and finally had to bow down in front it.
The actor’s condition had been deteriorating since April when stopped eating and had complained of weakness. He was admitted to Lilavati Hospital twice in the past month.
The actor was discharged from the hospital on Tuesday but due to extreme weakness and low blood pressure the actor was on ventilator since last night.
Doing an encore in London is not something that Sushil Kumar wants to lose his sleep over, but the Beijing Olympics bronze medallist has assured to put in the hard yards to ensure a podium finish in the upcoming Olympics.
“I don`t want to put any unnecessary pressure on me by thinking about the medal. It will hamper my performance in the Olympics. If you think about medal, you are bound to feel the pressure. My aim is to give my best on the mat,” Sushil said.
Private sector lender Axis Bank on Tuesday reported 22 percent growth in net profit to Rs 1,154 crore for the first quarter ended June 30, 2012.
The company had a net profit of Rs 942 crore in April-June, 2011-12, Axis Bank said in a statement.
Total income of the lender rose to Rs 7,818 crore in the quarter under review, from Rs 6,049 crore in the corresponding period of last fiscal.
If diplomatic achievements were measured by the number of countries visited, Hillary Rodham Clinton would be the most accomplished secretary of state in history.
While historians will debate and eventually rate her tenure as America’s top diplomat, Clinton is already assured of a place in the State Department record book.
Vladimir Putin, who dashed through the empty streets of Moscow on his inauguration day as Russian president in a black limousine without a front license plate, has invited a traffic complaint, RIA Novosti news agency reported Tuesday.
His limousine was accompanied by black minivans, and police on motorcycles. Video of the motorcade was transmitted live by the country’s prime television channels.
Taking a step forward in its fight against corruption, the Centre has decided to review anti-graft measures being taken by central ministries, departments and public sector undertakings.
The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has sought details from all government departments on the progress of all pending disciplinary inquiries, work load and manpower deployment for vigilance work.
The action came following a recommendation by the Group of Ministers(GoM) to check corruption, which were accepted by the Government.
Upset over the ruling of a Pakistani court on the 26/11 case, India Tuesday said evidence collected by a Pakistani judicial commission here had evidential value to punish those involved in the worst ever terrorist attack in the country.
“Our belief is that the evidence collected by the commission is of evidential value,” Home Secretary RK Singh told reporters here.
He was reacting to the ruling of a Rawalpindi court today which said all findings of a judicial commission that visited India were illegal and could not be made part of the evidence against the 26/11 accused.
Scientists have developed a tiny, artificial disc which mimics the flexibility of the spine, a feat they say could revolutionise the treatment of back pain.
Developed by a team at Brigham Young University in the US, the “roller” when inserted in the spine replaces damaged discs and provides the same range of movement as the real one.
The replacement disc has a rolling action to allow the spine to move in different directions. It`s intended as an alternative to fusion, where bones either side of the damaged disc area are welded together to reduce pain, the Daily Mail reported.
In a breakthrough, US scientists have genetically modified a bacterium to kill the parasite that causes malaria before it infects humans.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute said their breakthrough could help prevent mosquitoes from transmitting malaria to humans.
Malaria kills over 800,000 people worldwide every year, most of them are children.
One of the most fearsome pace bowlers in modern era who considered India his second home, Australia’s Brett Lee today announced retirement from international cricket ending an injury-ravaged career that lasted 13 years.
The 35-year-old affable pacer, who retired from Test cricket in 2010, had been most recently laid low by a calf injury. He will, however, continue to play in Australia’s Twenty20 Big Bash and the Indian Premier League.
Lee, a part-time bass guitarist who enjoys a huge fan-base in India, said he could not carry on anymore given the suffering his body has endured.
A section of debt-ridden Kingfisher Airlines’ pilots Saturday went on strike over non-payment of salaries and other dues for the past five months, leading to the cancellation of 40 flights across its network, an airline official said.
Twelve flights from New Delhi, six from Mumbai and three flights from Bangalore have been cancelled apart from many other flights from Chennai, Chandigarh, Dehradun and Dharamshala among others.
At least 20 people, including an Afghan parliamentarian, were killed and 40 injured in a suicide bombing at a wedding hall in the northern Afghan province of Samangan on Saturday morning, an official said.
Parliamentarian Ahamd Khan Samangani was killed in the attack which took place at around 8 am in Qasri-e- Almsas wedding hall in the provincial capital of Aibak city, police spokesperson in northern region Lal Mohammad Ahmadzai told Xinhua.
Pakistan’s new Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf will on Sunday embark on his first foreign visit to Saudi Arabia, days before the Supreme Court takes up two cases that could lead to his disqualification.
During the two-day visit to Saudi Arabia, a close ally of Pakistan, Ashraf will meet King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz.
An unnamed Foreign Ministry official was quoted by the Dawn newspaper as saying that the purpose of the visit was to reiterate the importance Pakistan attaches to its relations with Saudi Arabia.
With reference to the demand of debate on the lines of US election, made by his rival and opposition nominee PA Sangma, UPA’s Presidential candidate Pranab Mukherjee said here that Presidents in India do not decide policy, and there can be no debate on “personality”.
“On Presidential debates in US and France, the answer is very simple. In those countries, in their constitution, the president, directly elected by the people, is the chief executive.