A podiatrist has provided ample reasons for why women should not wear high heels.
Michael Liebow, a podiatrist from Bethesda, explained that by wearing heels, you’re altering the position of the foot and how the foot is to function, the Washington Post reported.
The common problems caused by donning such a footwear is the formation of calluses and, more painfully, corns, that are hard nuggets of keratin buildup caused by pressure on the skin.
Prateik Babbar recently promoted his upcoming movie ‘Issaq’ along with the entire film star cast at a fashion show in Mumbai.
The lead pair of the film walked down the ramp in the outfits designed by the students of INIFD during ‘Vibrance 2013’.
Speaking at the occasion, the 26-year-old actor said that he portrays a very challenging and different character.
“It was a very challenging, different kind of a role. I did a lot of hard work on my body, my voice, my face, overall on everything,” Babbar said.
31,385 people individually donate for the US national elections, a new study has revealed. This small group of US’ most wealthy chunk of citizens is responsible for nearly 30 percent of the 6 billion dollars contributed to federal campaigns and committees in the 2012 election, according to Washington Post.
A 50-year-old woman from the US state of California has been sentenced to life in prison for cutting off the penis of her then-husband and throwing it into a garbage disposal, officials said.
Vietnam-born Catherine Kieu from Garden Grove, California, and her 60-year-old husband were going through a divorce at the time of the incident in July 2011, CNN reported.
Kieu laced her husband’s dinner with a sleep medication after they had an argument over a friend possibly staying with them.
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said Saturday peace and stability in Afghanistan and Iran are essential for the security of India as the two countries provide access to the central Asian region that abounds in hydrocarbon wealth.
Khurshid said this while delivering the inaugural address at a three-day international conference on Central Asia at Kashmir University here.
The theme of the conference is “Cooperative development, peace and security in Central Asia: challenges and prospects”.
Over 666,000 people have been affected by heavy rains in east China, officials said Saturday.
Rain in 25 counties of Zhejiang province over the past month have forced around 5,700 residents to evacuate, Xinhua cited the flood control and drought relief office as saying.
A total of 335 houses have collapsed, and 22,200 hectares of crops were damaged in the rains, causing an economic loss of about 525 million yuan (around $85.5 million).
Actor Rana Daggubati faced minor injuries Saturday here while training for some stunt scenes on the sets of upcoming Telugu period-drama “Baahubali”. He was rushed to a hospital and is fine now.
“He met with a minor injury while rehearsing some action sequences for “Baahubali”. He was admitted to Care Hospital, but he is absolutely fine. He will resume training tomorrow,” Rana’s manager told IANS.
Rana plays one of the lead roles in the period flick, which is being helmed by S.S. Rajamouli. The film is set to go on floors July 6.
More than 100 people riding motorcycles, some of them wielding knives, attacked a police station in western China’s Muslim-majority region of Xinjiang, media reports said.
Details of Friday’s incident in the desert city of Hotan emerged Saturday, BBC reported.
It came two days after clashes in another part of Xinjiang left at least 35 people dead.
At a meeting in Xinjiang’s capital Urumqi, senior Communist Party official Yu Zhengsheng said China “would strike hard on violent terrorist attacks”.
A teenaged Pakistani Christian girl, who was “falsely accused” of blasphemy has fled to Canada with her family, BBC reported.
Rimsha Masih, 14, was detained in a maximum security prison for several weeks in August 2012, after being accused of burning pages from the Quran.
Although charges against the girl were later dropped, she and her family were forced into hiding after receiving death threats.
Rimsha, believed to have learning difficulties, was arrested in a Christian area of Islamabad, after a furious crowd demanded she be punished.
It was double bonanza for the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) as it would host the World Twenty20 for the first time in 2016 and its fourth 50-over World Cup in 2023.
The BCCI was awarded the two events during the International Cricket Council (ICC) Annual Conference that ended here Saturday. India was represented by interim chief Jagmohan Dalmiya, also a former ICC president.
During the conference, the ICC finalised its global events from 2015 to 2023 and decided that full members have to play a minimum of 16 Tests over a four-year period to retain their Test status.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Saturday said his government had followed the policy of keeping close relations with New Delhi in the past and would adopt the same in the future.
The prime minister stressed the need for harmony and enhancing people-to-people and government-to-government contacts between the two countries, Geo News quoted a spokesman for the Prime Minister House as saying.
Sharif Saturday presided over a meeting of the Pak-India Joint Business Council.
Swara Bhaskar, who played Dhanush’s friend Bindiya in “Raanjhanaa,” reveals that the audience has loved her character so much that she has already got a lot of marriage proposals from fans.
“I have already got 8-10 marriage proposals. A lot of people have left me messages on the Facebook and have written ‘Kundan was mad, marry us and we are serious’,” Swara said here Friday in an interview.
“Some even said that we are not mad and not stalkers, we will take care of you. So anything else happens or not, I will definitely get settled in my personal life,” she added.
Actor Tom Cruise reportedly pays $50,000-a-week to bodyguards to protect his seven-year-old daughter Suri.
One of the “Oblivion” star’s main reasons for hiring security is the constant paparazzi that follows Suri and his ex-wife, Katie Holmes, all the time.
“Tom is always surrounded by two rings of plainclothed security agents. That goes double for his precious daughter. Katie believes money is no object when it comes to the safety of Suri and insisted Tom handle that side of things,” femalefirst.co.uk quoted a source as saying.
Babies as young as five months old can understand each others’ emotional signals, a new study has found.
US researchers tested a baby’s ability to match emotional infant vocalisations with a paired infant facial expression.
“We found that 5 month old infants can match their peer’s positive and negative vocalisations with the appropriate facial expression,” said Ross Flom, professor of psychology in Brigham Young University.
The ball-tampering controversy in the recently-concluded Champions Trophy continues to rankle English cricketers with batsman Ravi Bopara calling the allegations, made by former captain Bob Willis, “annoying sad and depressing”.
“We were doing well in that tournament and I felt it was unacceptable to make that sort of noise. It was annoying, sad and depressing, especially in the middle of a global competition,” Bopara told the ‘London Evening Standard’.
The 22-year old medical student from Kerala who was kidnapped and gangraped at nearby Manipal more than a week ago was in a “state of trauma” and not in a position to speak about the incident now, chief of Kerala women’s Commission K C Rosakutty said today.
The victim and her family were reluctant to meet her and other two members, advocate Rubina Rashid and Dr Tulasi, Rosakutty told PTI over phone. “The victim is in a state of trauma and reluctant to meet us,” she said.
The doctors said the victim would be discharged from the hospital in next three days, Rosakutty said.
A known critic of Narendra Modi, Syed Zafar Mahmood today presented a slide show, touching various aspects of problems being faced by Muslims and the 2002 riots, in front of the Gujarat Chief Minister and said he was happy that his views were taken in stride.
Mahmood made the presentation at Young Indian Leaders Conclave where Modi remained closeted for a day with 150 young participants at the event organised by Citizen of Accountable Governance. Out of the 150 participants, around 30 were from the minority community.
The HRD Ministry has set up a committee to examine the allegations that the marks of 80 candidates of Common Admission Test (CAT), 2012, were inflated.
The development came even as IIM Kozhikode, the CAT convenor, in a statement today said it was “not responsible for any manipulation on the official website” which is hosted and managed by Lucknow-based Web Weavers.
The Navi Mumbai police today got permission from a sessions court to arrest Devendra Jagtap, alias JD, who allegedly fired two rounds with a country-made revolver at extradited gangster Abu Salem at the high-security Taloja jail on Thursday.
“We had to take the permission of the court to arrest him as he is an under-trial,” said a police official.
Hitting out at BJP for making allegation that CBI was being misused to frame Narendra Modi in Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case, Congress today asked if the opposition party is “clean”, why it is afraid of the probe.
“People, who are not guilty… should not be worried… If they (BJP) are clean, why they are afraid of probe? Why do they expect that law should not take its course?” Congress spokesperson Bhakta Charan Das told reporters here.
A senior Janata Dal-United (JD-U) leader Shivanand Tiwari said here today that an intelligence official having close links with Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi provided wrong inputs to stage the fake encounter against Ishrat Jahan.
With the Union Home Ministry expressing doubts over CBI”s proof against senior Intelligence Bureau (IB) official in the Ishrat Jahan case, Supreme Court lawyer Vrinda Grover on Saturday said the former should not put any hurdles in the way of an investigation regardless of who the person under arrest is.
Grover, who represents Ishrat Jahan”s mother Shamima in the court, said ”if evidence is taking the CBI investigation to the doorstep of a senior IB officer, we should hope that the investigation will be allowed to reach its logical conclusion”.
Retired Indian Police Service officer Kiran Bedi on Saturday urged the political parties to come under the ambit of Right To Information Act (RTI). Kiran Bedi said that political parties should stop being opaque and agree to be transparent. She said: “We need to get out of double standards; there has to be transparency. Political parties should stop being opaque.
The Election Commission is likely to seek an explanation from senior BJP leader Gopinath Munde sooner than later over is reported claim that he had spent Rs.8 crore as poll expenses during the 2009 general elections as against the official sanctioned limit of Rs.25 lakh.
According to a report in the New Indian Express, the Election Commission will in all likelihood question Munde on the issue, especially after he claimed that he had only Rs.6.22 crore in assets.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J.Jayalalithaa has given her All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) party a major pro-Dalit boost by inducting firebrand Parithi Ilamvazhuthi of the opposition Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and E Ponnusamy, a former Union Minister from the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK).
A powerful minister in the erstwhile Karunanidhi ministry in Tamil Nadu, Parithi was the Dalit face of the DMK, especially in Chennai, while Ponnusamy had for long occupied that space in the Vanniyar-dominant PMK.