A significantly larger tongue with a higher percentage of fat may be a sign of obstructive sleep apnea in obese adults, according to a new study.
The study found that obese participants with sleep apnea had significantly greater tongue volumes, tongue fat and percentage of tongue fat than obese controls without sleep apnea, after adjusting for potential confounders such as age, body mass index (BMI), gender and race.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has complained to UN chief Ban Ki-moon that a probe by the world body into the Gaza war is one-sided, his foreign ministry said today.
At a meeting with Ban yesterday in New York, Netanyahu charged that the UN Human Rights Council “is not focusing its inquiry on Hamas, which used UN facilities in order to fire at Israel,” a ministry statement said.
Israel has accused Hamas of firing rockets from densely- populated civilian areas during the war and from UN schools, and the army released videos it says proves such claims.
Odisha is keen to create 50,000 acres land bank as various big ticket projects, including Posco, have faced a hurdle.
The Odisha government has identified eight locations across the state to create the 50,000 acres land bank for expeditious progress of projects in the state.
It was once again a case of so near and yet so far for India’s Tintu Luka who, despite leading in most of the women’s 800 metres final race, was overtaken by Kazakhstan’s Margarita Mukasheva in the last stages and had to settle for the Asian Games silver here Wednesday.
Margarita set a new Asiad record of a minute and 59.02 seconds to take gold while China’s Zhao Jing won the bronze in 1:59.48 at the Incheon Asiad Main Stadium.
Tintu timed her season’s best of 1:59.19 but ran out of steam in the last 50m to let the gold slip away through her fingers.
With a ‘Thank You America’, Prime Minister Narendra Modi wound up his five-day US visit describing it as “very successful and satisfactory” with observers here saying that he had succeeded in establishing a personal rapport with President Barack Obama and largely repairing bilateral ties.
A joint statement issued by the two leaders after two rounds of talks covered a wide range of issues including “broad strategic and global partnership” between the two countries, their shared values and their desire to strengthen and deepen cooperation.
He knew how to say the “simplest of the stories” in the most exciting manner and his sense of budget was exceptional too, says megastar Amitabh Bachchan while remembering late maestro Hrishikesh Mukherjee on his birth anniversary.
Mukherjee’s 92nd birth anniversary was Tuesday and Big B just couldn’t stop reminiscing about the times he’d spent with the legend.
India’s Nakul Malhotra (+87 kg) and Anand Pandia Rajan (-80 kg) were knocked out of men’s quarter-final and Round of 16 matches, respectively, in men’s taekwondo competition at the Asian Games here Wednesday.
Earlier, Aarti Khakal was also ousted in the Round of 32 of the women’s -57 kg category at the Ganghwa Dolmens Gymnasium.
Malhotra exited after losing 1-2 to Lebanon’s Elias El-Hedari while Pandia Rajan was the shown the door by South Korea’s Yonghyun Park, who won 7-1.
The Kerala government has asked the Cochin Refinery to see that they produce more natural rubber modified bitumen (NRBM), Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said Wednesday.
NRBM is prepared by adding five per cent natural rubber latex to the bitumen. The price of one tonne NRBM is around Rs.55,000 while ordinary bitumen used for road surfacing comes to around Rs.39,000 per tonne.
Actor Varun Dhawan has shot a promo for the 16th edition of Mumbai Film Festival (MFF), which is set to roll out from Oct 14 here.
“Just shot a promo for #MAMI2014. Come celebrate the movies with me at the #MumbaiFilmFestival2014 starting 14th October @mumbaifilmfest,” Varun tweeted Wednesday.
Organised by Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI), the eight-day fest will showcase over 185 films from more than 65 countries.
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Big B calls ‘Haider’ a unique adaptation
Buckling under pressure from the opposition, the Goa government Wednesday ordered the closure of casinos on Gandhi Jayanti in deference to Mahatma Gandhi.
Addressing a press conference, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar said: “The casinos will be closed from midnight today (Wednesday) to tomorrow midnight.”
The state has five offshore casinos, and a dozen onshore casinos operating from various five-star hotels.
The Congress has been demanding a symbolic closure of these casinos Oct 2, the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
Twelve years after a 19-year-old medical student was crushed under the wheels of a truck in Ahmedabad, the Supreme Court has awarded compensation of Rs.27,25,000 with an annual interest of 9 percent holding that deceased was a diligent and outstanding student and ascertaining his future income at Rs.25,000 per month.
Awarding the compensation, an apex court bench of Justice V.Gopala Gowda and Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel said: “The deceased was a diligent and outstanding student of medicine who could have pursued his M.D. after his graduation and reached greater heights.”
Hong Kongers marked China’s National Day in a unique fashion by thronging the streets of Hong Kong today. With fresh faces joining the protests, there appeared no indication that the protesters’ determination was waning, a report said.
As China’s flag was flown alongside Hong Kong’s at various locations in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory, demonstrators protested silently by turning their backs and raising their arms in crosses.
After Priyanka Chopra, the reel life M.C. Mary Kom, congratulated the real life boxing champion for winning gold at the 17th Asian Games Wednesday, other stars of the Hindi film industry like singing legend Lata Mangeshkar and filmmaker Shoojit Sircar followed suit.
The five-time World Champion, defeated Kazakhstan’s Zhaina Shekerbekova 2-0, with one judge scoring the bout 38-38 in Incheon Wednesday. And the film fraternity is thrilled by her victory.
Here’s what they tweeted:
The Indian women’s hockey team put on a spectacular performance to defeat Japan 2-1 and claim the bronze medal at the 17th Asian Games here Wednesday.
In a hard-fought playoff, India took an early lead through a successful penalty corner conversion by Jaspreet Kaur in the 23rd minute, following a dry first quarter at the Soenhak Hockey Stadium.
Japan squeezed in their first goal from Shibata Akane’s stick in the 41st minute to level the score at 1-1.
Two-wheeler and three-wheeler-maker TVS Motor Company closed last month with 27 percent sales growth, the company said.
In a statement issued Wednesday, the company said it sold 250,835 units (two-wheelers 241,668 units, three-wheelers 9,167 units) last month, up from 197,409 units (two-wheelers 189,609 units, three-wheelers 7,800 units) sold in September 2013.
The company has posted 35 percent growth during the second quarter of the 2014-15 financial year with total sales of around 677,000 units against around 501,000 units recorded in the corresponding quarter of last fiscal.
Passenger car manufacturer Ford India experienced a dip in its September sales as compared to the corresponding period of 2013, the company said Wednesday.
In a statement, Ford India said it sold 13,742 vehicles last month, down from 14,217 units sold in September 2013.
Exports last month grew to 6,956 vehicles from 3,577 vehicles a year ago, while domestic wholesales stood at 6,786 units compared with 10,640 units sold in the same month last year.
The biggest ever paddy procurement exercise in Asia began across Punjab and Haryana Wednesday, food and supplies officials of both states said.
In Punjab, paddy will be procured at 1,802 centres, set up by the state government across the state. The state government has made arrangement to procure over 140 lakh tonnes of paddy this time.
The paddy arrival and procurement is likely to pick up in the Oct 10-15 period as the crop is harvested and brought to the grain markets.
On yet another day of volatile trade, a benchmark index of Indian equities market provisionally closed trade Wednesday 62.52 points or 0.23 percent down.
Profit booking was observed in oil and gas capital goods, fast moving consumer goods, consumer durables, bank and healthcare. Stocks of these sectors declined.
However, healthy buying was observed in information technology (IT) and technology, entertainment and media (TECK) sectors.
Japanese automobile major Nissan Motor India logged 64 percent sales growth last month as compared to the corresponding period last year, the company said.
In a statement issued Wednesday, the company said it sold 4,145 units, up from 2,527 units sold during September 2013.
With this, the company closed the second quarter of FY14 with sales of 25,741 units so far, compared to 12,515 units in the same period the last financial year.
(IANS)
Fashion trends come and go every season, but there have been particular standout styles over the past few years and one of them is skinny jeans.
New research conducted by members at clothing label Tu at Sainsbury’s found that the biggest change in clothing over the past decade noticed by women was the rise of skinny jeans, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
While the popularity of wearing trainers for fashion rather than sport or exercise over that last decade also stood out.
The list also saw the rise of bolder prints becoming increasingly popular.
Three army officers were killed when an army helicopter crashed in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly district Wednesday morning, officials said.
The Cheetah helicopter took off from Bareilly for a routine sortie. It developed a technical snag and crashed around 8 a.m. in Nakatiya, a rural area of Bareilly and burst into flames.
An earlier report said it was an air force helicopter, but it was later confirmed to be a 23-year-old army chopper.
Major Abhijeet Thapa, 29, Major Vikas Varyani, 29, and Captain Avinash, 26, were killed in the incident, a district official told IANS.
A blast in a tanker from Pakistan carrying chemicals led to panic Wednesday at the integrated check post (ICP) at Attari, 30 km from here.
Police sources said that the chemicals-laden truck had arrived Wednesday morning from Pakistan and was near the ICP on the Indian side of the border, when a sudden blast took place. The truck was completely burnt in the fire that engulfed the vehicle.
Though no casualties were reported, a wall of the ICP was damaged after the blast.
The Indian women hockey team beat Japan 2-1 at Seohak Hockey Stadium on Wednesday to bag the bronze medal in the 2014 Asian Games.
With the win, India not only claimed the bronze medal but they also avenged their last Asiad defeat in 2010 Guangzhou Games when they lost to the same opponents in the bronze medal match four years back.
India’s Jaspreet Kaur scored the opening goal in the 23rd minute when she converted the penalty corner to give them a 1-0 lead before Japan’s Akane Shibata made it level in the the 45th minute.
JCB International Co. Ltd. an international subsidiary of JCB Co. launched the JCB Ultimate card in China which is considered as a Standard JCB card and aiming to expand market for affluent Chinese consumers.
In mid-October, China CITIC Bank will be issuing the China CITIC JCB Ultimate Card to eligible customers.
Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray Wednesday wondered why has former ally BJP felt the need for holding “so many” election rallies by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Maharashtra.
“They say that there is a ‘Modi wave’ in the state. This is not Gujarat. If there is indeed such a wave, then why the BJP has planned so many rallies by the prime minister for the state elections?” Thackeray said talking to reporters here.