Month: January 2013

Binge drinking causes insulin resistance, which spurs a greater risk of Type 2 diabetes, according to the results of an animal study.

Insulin resistance (IR) arises when cells fail to respond to the normal actions of the hormone insulin. It delivers sugar to cells to provide them with energy.

Researchers from the Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai discovered that alcohol disrupts insulin-receptor signalling by causing inflammation in the hypothalamus area of the brain.

Shah Rukh Khan one day and Kamal Haasan the next. Is it mere coincidence or a sign of an increasingly knee-jerk, reactionary India that two of its most loved film icons are forced to go public to painstakingly reassert their secular identity and insist, in case the message is lost, that they are proud Indians?

Given the trajectory of events and the escalating intolerance on a range of issues — Ashis Nandy and Salman Rushdie are more cases in point — this is the time to worry. And the question above, merely rhetorical.

A woman threw her three daughters into a river killing them and later jumped to death in Daund town here, police said Thursday.

The 26-year-old took her four daughters to a bridge over river Bhima yesterday and threw three of them – aged one and a half, four and six – from a height of over 100 ft even as the seven-year-old, the eldest of the siblings ran away to save her life.

After killing the three girls, the mother- Afrin Shaikh- too jumped to her death.

All the four had drowned by the time people rushed to the river bank to save them, police said.

City Police have registered FIR against a coaching class owner for allegedly molesting a 17-year-old student, police sources said on Thursday.

Machindra Chate (48), owner of Chate Coaching Classes in Dadar, was booked for offences under sections 354 (assault or criminal force with intent to outrage modesty of woman) and 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace) of the IPC following a complaint filed by the victim with Bhoiwada police yesterday, sources said.

However, Chate has not yet been arrested, they said.

India on Thursday rejected as “totally baseless” Pakistan’s claim that its troops have also been beheaded by the Indian Army in the past.

Defence Minister A.K. Antony said though tension along the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir have “reduced” after the talks between the Directors General of Military Operations of the two countries, there was a need to remain vigilant and his Ministry has advised the government against being hasty on the issue of normalising ties with Pakistan.

Cricket Australia’s (CA) National Selection Panel (NSP) Thursday named two uncapped players, Glenn Maxwell and Moises Henriques, in the 17-man squad to tour India for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy beginning Feb 22 in Chennai.

Commenting on the squad, national selector John Inverarity said: “This squad has the flexibility that will be required for the varying conditions expected in India and it will provide valuable experience to a number of young players.”

Telugu Desam president N Chandrababu Naidu, will resume his ‘Vastunnaa Mee Kosam’ padayatra on January 31 after 4 days rest. Naidu suspended his padayatra on doctor’s advice after developing pain in the legs. He took a break at Paritala village of Krishna district on Sunday.

Although the doctors suggested a month rest but Naidu insisted to continue the yatra. He will resume his padyatra on January 31, at 4 pm. He will travel atleast 7 kilometers on foot and will halt for night stay.

A Pakistani judicial panel is expected to make a second visit to Mumbai by mid-February after being given a green signal by India to cross-examine four officials in connection with the probe into the 26/11 attacks.

India has okayed the visit of the judicial commission, which would travel to Mumbai without any delay, Interior Minister Rehman Malik told a news conference here last night.

Though he did not give a date, sources said the commission is expected to travel to Mumbai by mid-February.

A court here has directed the Commissioner of Delhi Police to look into the probe in the alleged gangrape case of a minor girl by six cops in a police station here last year while lambasting police for not taking steps to identify the accused.

“I find the Investigating Officer has not taken steps in regard to identification of police officers at concerned police post/police station on the date of the incident,” Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Manish Yaduvanshi said.

It is more than clear that TRS and Congress are fighting to score a point with each other with the possibility of merger looming large.

TRS is prepared to merge the party with Congress to secure Telangana and if it fails, many Congress leaders are prepared to join TRS. Elections are far enough but an agreement is eluding both the parties on the merger terms, hence the delay in decision making, so it appears going by the recent developments.

The Delhi High Court Thursday directed the city government to issue notice to all hospitals, including the privately run, not to deny admission to rape and road accident victims for “first-aid treatment”.

A division bench of Chief Justice D. Murugesan and Justice V.K. Jain asked the principal secretary of the health department, Delhi government, to issue directions to all the private and government hospitals in the city to not refuse admission to the victims for immediate treatment.

Activist Anna Hazare Thursday rejected the new draft of the Lokpal Bill with amendments proposed by the central government and announced that he would continue his fight for the Jan Lokpal Bill.

“The proposed new draft of the Lokpal Bill is useless. We will continue our fight for the Jan Lokpal Bill and force the government to pass it,” Hazare told reporters here.

Hazare added that the proposed bill would not help fight corruption. “Such a bill will not benefit the people,” he said.

The Tamil Nadu government’s ban on Kamal Haasan’s mega movie “Vishwaroopam” is not politically motivated, but for the fear of law and order problems that may ensue, said the actor-filmmaker’s brother and partner in the film production company Raj Kamal International here.

“As far as we know, the ban is on the grounds to maintain law and order. We do not think the ban is political,” Chandra Haasan told reporters here Thursday.

MIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi did not get any relief either from Nizamabad court or Sangareddy court in two different cases that he is facing.

Hadiya Pendleton, a teenager who performed at President Barack Obama’s inauguration ceremony last week, was gunned down in Chicago, a media report said.

Pendleton, 15, was shot dead while hanging out with friends after school, reported NBC News.

She had performed with the King College Prep school band at Obama’s inauguration.

She was standing under a canopy in Vivian Gordon Harsh Park when a gunman came from an alley, opened fire and fled, police said.

She was shot in the back but managed to run about a block before she collapsed. She died at a hospital.

There was no problem in a stake sale deal between Jet Airways and the Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways if the two airlines get regulatory clearance, Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh said Thursday.

“Unless the deal is signed and approved, we can’t say the deal is done. But I don’t see any problems. Once they sign the agreement, they will go through the regulatory requirements,” Ajit Singh told reporters at his residence after meeting a delegation comprising members of both airlines.

For 56 years they have lived in the same state and spoken the same language. But this linguistic affinity may not keep them together for long.

As the movement for a Telangana state enters a decisive phase, the divide between the economically backward Telangana region and Seemandhra (as the rest of Andhra Pradesh is known) appears deep and complete.

Despite many commonalities, the people of Telangana and Seemandhra came from different historical, geographical and socio-economic background.

YSR Congress has informed that after the one hour surgery Mrs. Sharmila is hale and healthy and will resume her walkathon from February 6.

Speaking at a press conference here at YSR Congress headquarter, YSR Congress spokesman Mrs. Vasi Reddy Padma told that Mrs. Sharmila had sustained injuries after she slipped while getting down from the car at Rangareddy district during her padyatra and the padyatra was suspended on December 15, on the direction of doctors.

She told that Mrs. Sharmila will resume her padyatra from the place where she had suspended it.

Siasat news

Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) may play a wide-ranging role in staving off ageing, says a research team from China who has explored the compound`s plethora of potential anti-ageing pathways.

H2S has been gaining increasing attention as an important endogenous signaling molecule because of its significant effects on the cardiovascular and nervous systems, the team noted.

Chairman Telangana Political Joint Action Committee Prof. Kodandaram has challenged the government to arrest him. In the backdrop of cases registered against him in some police stations of the state and demand from Congress leaders to arrest him, Kodandaram dared Kiran Kumar Reddy to arrest him and told that then Telangana people will show their power.

Hadith:
Abu Sa’id Al-Khudri (radiyAllahu Anhu) reported: Once we were on a journey with Messenger of Allah (Sallellahu Alaihi Wa Sallam) when a rider came and began looking right and left. Messenger of Allah (S.A.W.S) said, “Whoever has an extra mount should offer it to him who is without it, and whoever has surplus food should give it to him who has nothing;” and he continued mentioning other properties until we thought that none of us had any right to surplus of his own property.
[Muslim]

COMMENTARY:

Elders Think Tank is organising a symposium entitled “State’s Political Situation and Minority Issues” on Saturday, February 9, 6 pm at Dr. Khaja Moinuddin Hall, Madina Education Centre, Nampally near State Hajj House.

Former Awqaf minister Asif Pasha President Elders Think Tank will preside over. Prof. Kancha Illaiah vice president Think Tank will deliver keynote address.

State minor irrigation minister T G Venkatesh has said that KCR has lost his mental balance due to old age problem. He told that TRS chief is trying to gain political mileage by disrupting peace of the state while he has not tried seriously for separate Telangana state so far. He is just eyeing on vote and note.

The minister told that resolution of Telangana issue needs discussion. Solution to any problem can be sought through discussion. He advised Congress leaders of Telangana not to resign falling prey to the blackmailing of TRS.

Siasat news

The 2nd Abid Ali Khan Naat recitation competition was held on Wednesday from 11 am to 6 pm. More than 100 degree and PG students participated with great reverence. One of the students recited Naat-e-shareef in English language while another student recited multi-lingual Naat-e-shareef. Dr. Syed Shujahuddin Quadri convened the programme. 85 teams took part in the competition. Students of medical, engineering, pharmacy, arts, science and commerce took part in the completion with great reverence.

Missing man’s dead body found
(Siasat News): Rajendranagar police has recovered the dead body of a man who was mysteriously missing since January 21. It was found from the forest of Horticulture and was identified as A Yadiah, 42.

He was the resident of Premji Nagar and was a cook by profession. After the preliminary investigations, police opined that his death might have occurred due to the over dose of liquor as he was an alcoholic.