Researchers have said that an asthma drug omalizumab accelerates the process of desensitizing patients with food allergies to several foods at the same time.
The findings by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford come on the heels of a recent study by the same team showing that people with multiple food allergies can be desensitized to several foods at once.
A main accused involved in a Muzaffarnagar riots-related murder case has been arrested here, police said.
Pappu, son of Mahender Singh is one of the eleven accused in connection with the killing of a youth Nazim, was arrested yesterday, according to police.
A local court later sent him to a 14-day judicial custody.
He was sent to the custody by Chief Judicial Magistrate Narender Kumar yesterday.
A pistol was also recovered from his possession, they said.
Worn by Muslim women, Burqa or veil, is now becoming a fashion statement in India, with more young Indian Muslims preferring face-veils that are made fancy or ornate through embroidery, designs and decorative works.
“With times even burqa is changing its color and design. More and more girls and women are demanding colorful and fashionable veils from us,” Rizwan Khan, owner of Rizwan Burqa House, a major veil shop in central India, told OnIslam.net.
The government will take a decision on withdrawal of conciliation offer to telecom company Vodafone for resolving the Rs 20,000 crore tax dispute after a transfer pricing case concerning the UK telecom giant is settled.
“The Cabinet has decided to instruct the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) to expeditiously solve the Vodafone transfer pricing case. Once that is done, the Cabinet will review the conciliation process,” a senior Finance Ministry official said after a meeting of the Union Cabinet on Friday.
Vodafone is locked in twin tax disputes with the government.
Superstar Rajnikanth may have romanced many heroines onscreen with much ease but he did face awkward moments shooting for his daughter Soundarya’s debut directorial venture ‘Kochadaiyaan,’ the filmmaker revealed today. PTI File Photo
Superstar Rajnikanth may have romanced many heroines onscreen with much ease but he did face awkward moments shooting for his daughter Soundarya’s debut directorial venture ‘Kochadaiyaan,’ the filmmaker revealed today.
Special secretary Minority Welfare Syed Omer Jaleel said that he is trying to ensure disbursement of complete budget earmarked for the Minority Welfare during current financial year. Addressing a press conference here he expressed hope that the government will soon release the fourth and last installment of Minority welfare budget.
Are you falling sick without any apparent illness? Your job could be the reason behind it.
Although, some jobs, such as logging and power line repairing are inherently dangerous, agriculture is one of the top most careers that can make one sick, Fox News reported.
Amid questions over functioning of Navy in the backdrop of mishaps, it has come to light that the maritime force had been alerting the government since 2008 about the falling strength of its submarine fleet and pressing the need for bolstering its capabilities.
The Navy had been writing to the Prime Minister’s Office and the Defence Ministry, highlighting that delay in the Scorpene submarine project and finalisation of the project for next line of submarines would result in dwindling of its capabilities, sources said here today.
Bonti, a woman who had kissed Congress Vice-president Rahul Gandhi during a recent event in Assam, has been allegedly burnt to death by her husband, according to a report in the India Today.
Reports said that a quarrel occurred between the couple over the kissing incident, following which the husband set his wife on fire.
The lady’s husband is also said to have suffered 40 percent burn injuries and is currently hospitalised.
Police suspect that she was subsequently set on fire by her husband. She suffered serious burns and later succumbed to her injuries.
Actor-filmmaker Aamir Khan, who is geared up for the new season of his social issues-related TV show “Satyamev Jayate”, says he wants to continue to take the right advantages of being a celebrity, who is so loved by his fans.
“If a celebrity does some work, there is more attention. But the audience is very sharp, they understand everything. Whatever goodwill I have earned over the years, I’ll (always) take the right advantage of it. I hope many more celebrities do it…the more the better,” Aamir told IANS.
A street legal Batmobile has gone on sale for one million dollars.
The limited edition concept car is a replica of the high tech ‘ Tumbler ‘ Batmobile that features in Christopher Nolan’s ‘ Batman Begins’.
Unlike the one from the movie, this car doesn’t shoot fire and rockets – It does however pack an LS1 eight cylinder engine which powers four rear wheel 44 inch super swamper tires, the Independent reported.
The vehicle features five drive assistant cameras, as well as GPS navigation.
The main aim of Shanti prakashana is to educate Muslims (who do not know Arabic and Urdu) on Islamic studies, Quran, Hadees or the way of life of Prophet Mohammad and his character, by translating them into Kannada. Shanti Prakashana does not only translate books, but makes them easy to understand and enable people to adopt the principles of Islam in their lives.
The objective of Shanti Prakashana is to remove the misconceptions and misunderstandings about Islam and Muslims lodged in the minds of non-muslim brothers who have been living together since time immemorial.
Japan’s largest airline, All Nippon Airlines (ANA) introduces Wi-Fi service on its international routes enabling passengers to access internet on board.
ANA is the world’s eighth largest airline in terms of revenue and the country’s largest in terms of passengers.
The Wi-Fi service will enable ANA passengers to purchase internet access on-board through credit cards.
This technology will make it easier for the passengers to access internet on their smart phones or tablets and surf on social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and various other portals.
A man from Mississippi, USA, who was declared dead on Wednesday, returned to life the next day while he was getting prepared for his funeral.
Coroner Dexter Howard said that when he went to collect the body of 78-year-old Walter Williams, the latter had no pulse and was completely lifeless, CNN reported.
He continued saying that after he transported Williams’ corpse to the funeral home in a body bag, he noticed that the bag started moving in the embalming room.
Howard asserted that he noticed Williams’ legs were beginning to move and he also began to do a little breathing.
Scientists have identified the brain differences between poor and good sleepers – increased brain plasticity in motor cortex.
Johns Hopkins researchers report that people with chronic insomnia show more plasticity and activity than good sleepers in the part of the brain that controls movement.
Study leader Rachel E. Salas, an assistant professor of neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, said that insomnia is not a nighttime disorder, but a 24-hour brain condition, like a light switch that is always on.
“Then do ye remember Me; I will remember you. Be grateful to Me and reject not Faith.”
(Al-Baqarah 2:152)
“And remember when your Lord proclaimed, “If ye are grateful, I will add more (favors) unto you; but if ye show ingratitude, truly My torment is terrible indeed.”
(Ibrahim 14:7)
“We bestowed wisdom on Luqman: “Show (thy) gratitude to Allah.” Any who is (so) grateful does so to the profit of his own soul; but if any is ungrateful, verily Allah is free of all wants, worthy of all praise.”
(Luqman 31:12)
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal kicked off his road show Saturday from the party’s office here and is slated to reach Kanpur Sunday.
He was accompanied by fellow party members Manish Shishodia and Sanjay Singh.
The road show — “Jhadu chalao beimaan bhagao yatra” — which began from Kaushambi, near the national capital, would end in Kanpur. It will pass through Pilkhuwa, Babugarh, Garh Mukteswar, Gajraula, Moradabad, Shahbad, Hardoi, and Unnao.
The AAP leaders would stay in Shahpur for the night.IANS
Dampen the spirits after finding out that her husband was having an illicit relationship with a woman, a housewife hanged herself in Prakash Nagar on Thursday evening.
According to Begumpet police, Ratnaveni, 26, year, old got married to Uday Kumar, a customer executive with a mobile service provider. Their relationship drained liquid after Ratnaveni came to know of Uday Kumar’s alleged relationship with another woman.
Mushaira has always been the part of Indian culture. Keeping in view the poetry loving Hyderabadis, Siasat daily has arranged a Deccani comedy Mushaira on Saturday, March 1, at 7 pm, at Mahboob Husain Jigar Hall, Abids.
Shadab Bedharak, Narendar Rai, Waheed Pasha Quadri, Ameer Nusrati, Osman Ali Arshi, Rubina Naz, Shabbir Khan, Shabban Khan, K B Jani and Munawwar Ali will present mizahiya poetry.
US lawmakers announced a caucus to fight for the rights of the Ahmadi minority, which has faced attacks in Pakistan and elsewhere in the Islamic world.
The creation of a caucus yesterday, a group in the US Congress that shares an agenda — is primarily symbolic in
itself but lays the groundwork for lawmakers to be more active.
Republican Representative Frank Wolf, the co-chair with Democrat Jackie Speier, said the Ahmadiyya Muslim Caucus would press for the rights of Ahmadis in trouble in Pakistan, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere.
On Friday, a paedophile was arrested by the Chandanagar police for the kidnap-cum-murder of an eightyear-old boy.
According to Police, Raman Patel, a labourer, was nabbed based on the information given by some construction workers employed at Sri Sai Developers.
The boy went missing on February 18, following which his mother lodged a complaint with the Chandanagar police. On February 22, cops found a dead body in the middle of some bushes in a park at Huda layout, Nallagandla village. Residents identified the body as that of the missing boy.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) challenged the Congress to have an open debate on the economic contours of Modi’s economic vision; a day after the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate put forth his views for revival of the country’s sagging economy.
BJP Spokesperson Prakash Javadekar took a dig at Congress for being “silent” after Modi came out with his economic agenda and took pot shots at the Congress saying it seems a snake has stunned them.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro opened another session of a national conference for peace Friday, seeking to put an end to the country’s weeks-long violent protests.
At the meeting, Maduro proposed turning the event into a permanent forum, reported Xinhua.
Among other measures to promote peace, Maduro called for a political liaison committee as a permanent channel of communication between various sectors in Venezuela.
It has taken no less than 12 years for the top BJP leadership to come down a few notches from its high horse in offering regret for the 2002 riots in Gujarat in which at least a 1,000 people of the minority community were killed. If the apology is indeed sincere then there should not have been any reservations in going public to assuage the feelings and susceptibilities of the affected.
The timing of BJP President Rajnath Singh’s belated regret in providing a soothing balm for the Gujarat pogrom where the innocent were mowed down in cold blood is significant.
China’s purchasing managers’ index (PMI) for manufacturing sector dropped to 50.2 percent in February, down from 50.5 percent for January, official data showed Saturday.
February continued January’s decline with most sub-indices shrinking, according to a statement jointly released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing.
A reading below 50 indicates contraction, while that above 50 signals expansion, Xinhua reported.