Month: February 2013

Men who take vitamin C supplements regularly run a higher risk of developing kidney stones, Swedish researchers have warned.

The research is based on data from a large population-based study of men from Västmanland and Örebro counties, who were monitored for 11 years.

A total of 23,355 men were identified who had no history of kidney stones and who took either no dietary supplements or supplements in the form of vitamin C only. During the study period, 436 of the participants developed kidney stones that required medical attention.

The Mars Express space probe, which this year celebrates the 10th anniversary of its launch, has mapped almost 90 percent of the surface of the Red Planet, the European Space Agency announced Monday.

The photographs of the planet’s surface have been taken from orbit around Mars with the probe’s High Resolution Stereo Camera, which is capturing the images in colour, in three dimensions and with a resolution of about 10 meters per pixel.

The map is comprised of 2,702 individual shots, grouped into a type of mosaic in which can be seen the gaps that still need to be photographed.

`Khiladi 786` director Ashish R Mohan, who is making a biopic on notorious gangster Babloo Srivastava, says he will try to keep it real and entertaining as expectations have soared after his debut film last year.

Srivastava was a former aide of mafia don Dawood Ibrahim.

All those behind the Dec 16 gang-rape here should be hanged, said the father of the 23-year-old victim stressing that he would pursue the case till the end.

As the case against the five accused in the gang-rape of the young woman, who succumbed to her grievous injuries on Dec 29, began in a Delhi court, her father addressed a press conference Tuesday to assert that he would approach the courts to ensure justice was done.

“I want all six of them to be hanged. We will go to the court and pursue the case till the end,” he said, with his son by his side. The sixth accused is a juvenile.

Congress President Sonia Gandhi will launch a national health programme in Palghar, a tribal block in Maharashtra”s Thane district, tomorrow.

The National Rural Health Mission of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India”s new initiative of child health screening and early intervention services will provide comprehensive care to all children.

The purpose of these services is to improve the overall quality of life of children through early detection of birth defects, diseases, deficiencies, development delays including disability.

Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked terror group al-Shabab group has opened a new Twitter account in English.

A senior al-Shabab official said that the new account, which was made in less than two weeks after its previous account was suspended, was genuine

Al-Shabab”s previous English-language account was suspended after it used it to announce it would kill a French hostage and then said it had done so, the BBc reports.

Madhya Pradesh Tribal Development Minister Vijay Shah has shown his insensitiveness by saying that protecting girls is responsibility of the parents and not the government.

The girls seeking a hostel facility in Alirajpur to get a written undertaking from their parents by the minister in order to ease the government of the burden to protect them.

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, who was scheduled to undertake a two-day tour of his parliamentary constituency Amethi today, postponed his visit due to bad weather conditions.

Gandhi will now undertake a two-day visit to Amethi from Thursday. It will be his first visit to his constituency after taking over as Congress vice-president.

A man in Agra has been arrested for “communal and inflammatory” posts on social networking site Facebook targeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, union Communications Minister Kapil Sibal and Uttar Pradesh’s ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, police said Tuesday.

Sanjay Chowdhary, a resident of the Dayalbagh suburb of Agra, was arrested late Monday and his laptop, sim card and data card impounded.

The Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) Tuesday said if a woman complained of harassment in a bus, the driver would take it straight to a police station.

“If there is a complaint from a woman passenger about harassment, indecent behaviour or molestation by male passengers, the conductor will order the bus to be driven directly to the nearest police station,” an MSRTC official said here.

The digital revolution is spurring a slow transformation in the spiritual classrooms of one of most conservative bastions of faith. More and more Muslims in India, South Asia and around the world are logging on to the internet to read the Holy Quran, which is moving to the digital domain keeping in tune with the proliferation of e-books.

Sardar Singh will lead India’s 18-man squad Hockey India in the Hero Hockey World League Round 2 to be played at the Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium here Feb 18-24.

Hockey India selector Syed Ali, chief coach Michael Nobbs and exercise physiologist Jason Konrath along with government observer Harbinder Singh selected the team and six standbys on the basis of their performance in the ongoing Hockey India League.

VR Raghunath has been named the vice-captain of the team.

The preparatory camp for the event will start here from Feb 11.

Forensic experts Tuesday recorded the voice of MIM leader Akbaruddin Owaisi in a court, which also extended his judicial custody till Feb 19 in a hate speech case.

Experts of the Central Forensic Science Laboratory recorded the legislator’s voice as he has reportedly claimed during the interrogation that the voice in the video footage of his speech is not his.

Official said the voice sample would be sent to a laboratory in Chandigarh to match it with the voice in the video footage of the public meeting.

Mr. K. Chandrasekhara Rao is inviting the members of various parties to join TRS. There are indications that the leaders of other parties are showing inclination to join YSR Congress Party.

TDP would decide on its own to move ‘No Confidence Motion’ in A.P. Assembly. It won’t accept any external pressure.

TDP leader, Mr. E. Peddireddy said in a press conference held in Hyderabad. He rejected the demand of YSR Congress Party to present ‘No Confidence Motion’ in A.P. Assembly. If YSR Congress Party is confident that Congress Party lost majority in the Assembly it should approach the Governor of A.P. and get the orders issued to prove its majority on the floor of the Assembly.

Mr. Hamed Ghori s/o late Ghulam Mohammmed Ghori, residing at Balanagar, New Bowenpally, died tonight.

Namaz-e-Janaza will be conducted at Masjid Noor, New Bowenpally on Tuesday, February 5 after Namaz-e-Zohar. Burial will take place at the cemetery of New Bowenpally.

Late Hamed Ghori was associated with teaching at Islamia High School, Secunderabad. Further information can be had on 88859997133.

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Mr. Mohd Nazeer Ahmed s/o late Mohd. Ghulam Dastagir died on February 4.

Secret picturisation of bathing woman, one arrested
(Siasat News): The gunman of Congress MLA Kotapally Subba Raidu is arrested for alleged secret picturisation of a woman who was bathing in APTransco Guest House.

However, the woman realized that the gunman Siva Kumar is indulged in some evil activities and might be filming her through his mobile phone.

Later, following the complaint of the woman and her husband, the gunman was arrested.

A man in Agra has been arrested for “communal and inflammatory” posts on social networking site Facebook targeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, union communications minister Kapil Sibal and Uttar Pradesh’s ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, police said on Tuesday.

Sanjay Chowdhary, a resident of the Dayalbagh suburb of Agra, was arrested late on Monday and his laptop, sim card and data card impounded.

Jammu and Kashmir Police has registered a case and identified several Facebook users who had posted abusive and threatening messages on the page of the only all-girls rock band of the Valley.

“A case under Section 66 A of the IT Act and Section 506 RPC (Criminal Intimidation) has been registered in police station Rajbagh with regard to the hate messages posted on the Facebook page of the Pragaash band,” a police spokesman said today.

He said the investigations are in full swing but refused to give any details.

“I want to serve the people. I want every girl, every child, to be educated,” Pakistani teen activist Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban for promoting girls’ education, has said in a recorded message.

The 15-year-old was shot by a Taliban assassin as she took a bus home from school in Pakistan’s northwest region in October 2012. She was flown to Britain shortly after the attack and was treated at Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

She said she is “getting better day by day”.

Tattooing, so popular among the young, can increase the risk of skin cancer, say doctors.

According to doctors, inks used in tattoos may contain toxic elements, which can cause skin cancer, especially blue ink, the age-old colour of choice for tattoo artists, which has cobalt and aluminum.

Red ink may have mercurial sulfide and certain coloured inks often contain lead, cadmium, chromium, nickel, titanium and other heavy metals.

Bringing hope to hundreds of cancer patients, new technology which delivers high doses of radiation with great accuracy into the human body has been introduced in the Indian capital and will help patients fight the disease with minimum side effects.

The CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery System is an advanced method of robotic delivery of high precision radiotherapy for treatment of tumors anywhere in the body.

A sick person who reports for duty can contaminate more than half of his office`s common surfaces with virus or the bugs by lunchtime, says a study.

Some of the bacterial hot spots include phones, desktops, tabletops, doorknobs, photocopiers, elevator buttons, the office fridge and tea vending machines, according to University of Arizona researchers in the US.

However, the study also revealed that simple acts such as hand washing and the use of hand sanitiser or wipes, can drastically reduce employees` risk of infection.

China`s infamous pollution besides poverty is turning out to be a major health hazard as the twin problems were identified as major cause of cancer, an official media report here said.
Cancer and its treatment in China is influenced by air pollution, poverty and a fledgling medical insurance system, the Health News, an affiliate newspaper of the Health Ministry, reported today on the ocassion of World Cancer Day.

The same type of cancer shows different characteristics in the east and the west. Treatments also vary due to social and economic factors.

People who drink black tea are less likely to develop Type 2 diabetes, according to researchers.

A new analysis of data from 50 countries found that the nations who drank the most black tea also suffered the lowest levels of the metabolic syndrome, the Daily Times reported.

The study also found that high tea consumption was related to lower levels of obesity.

Scientists believe that the fermentation process, which turns green tea black, could also cause the production of complex health-giving flavonoids.