Month: June 2015

If marriage has a positive influence on health and life expectancy, as generally assumed, then why do couples gain weight after tying the knot? Blame it on their lifestyle.

According to a study spanning across nine European countries, researchers have found that married couples on average eat better than singles, but weigh significantly more and do less sport.

They found that married men were more likely than single men to buy organic and fair trade food.

Ingredients:

Eggs- 4 (hard boiled and peeled)
Bay leaf- 1
Peppercorns- 5-7
Cloves-4
Cardamom pods- 2-3
Cinnamon sticks- 1 inch
Star anise- 1 Onions- 2 (chopped)
Garlic pods- 5 (minced)
Ginger- 1 inch (finely chopped)
Green chillies- 4 (slit)
Ghee- 1tbsp Oil- 3tbsp
Tomatoes- 2 (chopped)
Peas- 1 cup
Red chilli powder- 1tbsp
Cumin powder- 1tbsp
Garam masala powder- 2tsp
Mutton kheema- 750 grams
Salt- as per taste

Procedure

1. Chop the boiled eggs into small pieces (roughly the size of cherries).

Police’s Special Investigation Team (SIT) is expected to conduct a polygraph test on Congress leader Shashi Tharoor in connection with the death case of his wife Sunanda Pushkar, a report said on Tuesday.

Earlier this month, polygraph test of six persons was conducted in connection with the high-profile murder case.

Police sources said the test was conducted on Tharoor’s domestic help Narayan Singh, his driver Bajrangi and his friend Sanjay Dewan.

Three other people – SK Sharma, Vikas Ahlawat and Sunil Takru – have also undergone the lie detector test in connection with the case.

Ingredients:
*200 gm mince
*1 onion, finely chopped
*1/2 tsp ginger paste
*1/2 tsp garlic paste
*1 boiled potato, mashed
*1 eggs
*3 green chilies
*1 cup Water
*1 tsp red chili powder
*1/2 tsp all spice
*1 tsp salt
*1 tbsp coriander leaves
*oil for frying

Method:

*Place mince in a large pot or skillet.
*Add water, ginger garlic paste, green chilies, red chili, onion and salt.
*Cook for 20 minutes or until mince is tender.
*Let it cool for 10 minutes.
*Then place in chopper with coriander leaves, all spice, potato and 1 egg.
Mix well.

Ingredients Of Dhaka Karahi

1 kg chicken, cut into pieces
2 medium onions, sliced
4 tomatoes, chopped
4 to 5 green chilies
1 cup water
½ cup oil
¼ bunch fresh coriander
1 medium piece of ginger, sliced
1 tsp. hot spices powder
1 tbsp. crushed cumin
1 tbsp. crushed coriander
2 tbsp. red chili flakes
3 tbsp. ginger, garlic paste

Method Of Dhaka Karahi

Heat ½ cup oil and add 3 tbsp. ginger garlic paste and kg chicken cut into pieces to a pan and sauté it.

Ingredients:
6 portions chicken – legs and thighs
½ cup yogurt
¼ cup vegetable oil or olive oil
4 tablespoons melted butter
1 lime or lemon
1 2 inch piece of ginger cut into cubes
4-5 cloves of garlic halved
½ teaspoon garam masala
½ teaspoon paprika – if available
½ teaspoon turmeric
1 teaspoon red chilli powder
1 tablespoon cumin powder
1 tablespoon coriander powder
A day old crusty bread
1 medium sized cucumber – diced
1 medium sized onion – diced
2 medium sized tomatoes – diced
½ cup extra virgin olive oil
1 teaspoon of mustard

The Bombay High Court today allowed Nestle India to export Maggi noodles after Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) said it had no objection to the company selling the product abroad though it stood by its decision to ban nine variants of the food snack in the country for being hazardous to public health.

“Why blame us…If the company claims that its product is safe and follows the safety standards then let them export it instead of destroying,” FSSAI counsel Mahmood Pracha argued before a bench of Justices V M Kanade and B P Colabawala.

Consumption of sugary drinks may lead to diabetes, heart disease, and cancers and an estimated 184,000 adult deaths each year worldwide, shows a study by a team of researchers led by an Indian American.

In the first detailed global report on the impact of sugar-sweetened beverages, researchers estimated deaths and disabilities caused by diabetes, heart disease, and cancers in 2010.

Superstar Shah Rukh Khan, whose last actor-director collaboration with Rohit Shetty – “Chennai Express” – chugged away to success, says it’s pathetic he can’t keep up with the “very punctual” filmmaker, who always reaches the set before the scheduled time.

The duo have once again joined hands for a new film titled “Dilwale”, which will see the classic Bollywood ‘jodi’ of SRK and Kajol back on the big screen.

At an event here for the launch of watch brand TAG Heuer’s new campaign, Shah Rukh spoke of his experience of working with Shetty.

Parents financially favour daughters over sons when they expect tough economic times ahead, a research said.

A study found participants preferred to enroll a daughter rather than a son in beneficial programmes, preferred to give a US Treasury bond to a daughter rather than to a son, and bequeathed a greater share of their assets to female offspring in their will when they perceived economic conditions to be poor.

Drinking excessive water is not good for your health as this weakens the ability of the kidneys to excrete excess water load and sodium in the body becomes diluted. This leads to swelling in cells, which can be life-threatening.

According to new guidelines from an international expert panel, you should drink only when you are thirsty in order to avoid exercise-associated hyponatremia (EAH).

PM Modi’s #SelfieWithDaughter campaign against female infanticide is top on the global trends but Ehsan Jafri’s daughter shared something on Facebook with a very dark past which gave a very heartrending twist to the entire campaign, a chilling reminder that Gujarat always remembers.

Ehsan Jafri was a former Congress MP, who was brutally murdered in the infamous Gulbarg society massacre on 28 February, 2002along where 69 Muslims by a Hindu mob and his house was burnt down.

Top officials from India and the US have reviewed the implementation of initiatives taken during the two summits between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Barack Obama in the past one year.

Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar had a series of meetings with the US officials here yesterday during which he discussed issues ranging from ease of doing business to cooperation on terrorism and climate change.

During his day-long visit, Jaishankar met US National Security Advisor Susan Rice, Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Trade Representative Michael Froman among others.

US President Barack Obama and his French counterpart Francois Hollande have agreed to combine their efforts to work on a package that will return the financial crisis-hit Greece to the path of recovery.

In a telephone call to Hollande, Obama yesterday discussed the ongoing Greece crisis and also offered his condolences to him in the wake of a terror attack last week near Lyon.

A student of Sri Chaitanya College hanged himself to death at his residence in Bachupally under Dundigal police station limits, on Monday.

According to police, 18-year-old Ch Om Prakash, R/O Bachupally committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling fan at his residence.

Deceased’s father says the reason behind suicide could be depression. The body has been shifted to Gandhi mortuary for postmortem.

Siasat news

The government has not returned airport user charges as promised to the Hajj aspirants of the year 2013. It must be recalled that Kiran Kumar Reddy government had announced to pay 50% user charges by the government and had sanctioned 74 lakh rupees in this connection. However the amount was not released by the finance department. But the present government didn’t bother to fulfill the promise.

Former Minister of State for Coal Dasari Narayan Rao, an accused in Jharkhand’s Amarkonda Murgadangal coal block allocation scam case, today said that decisions to allocate coal blocks were taken by then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who was also heading the Coal Ministry at that time.

“I was only the Minister of State. All powers for allocating coal blocks are of the Coal Minister and the then Coal Minister was Manmohan Singh. All the decisions were taken by the then Prime Minister Singh,” Rao told reporters outside the Patiala House courts here.

As someone who considers fame a blessing, Shah Rukh Khan says he works best with the pressure that comes with his stardom.

“I feel when there is no pressure, life is lazy. When you try new things you are going to fail… When you are going to fail you feel bad… But you have to keep trying and not crack under pressure,” Shah Rukh told reporters here.

“In my life, there have been sad moments, moments when I have been down but I don’t crack under pressure at all. May be one day I will die because of it but I will not crack under pressure,” he said at a TAG Heuer event last night.

The Islamic State group has beheaded two women in Syria on accusations of “sorcery,” the first such execution of women in Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said today.

“The Islamic State group executed two women by beheading them in Deir Ezzor province, and this is the first time the Observatory has documented women being killed by the group in this manner,” Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said.

The Britain-based monitor said the executions took place on Monday and Sunday and involved two couples.

In a relief to Telangana TDP MLA A Revanth Reddy, the prime accused in the cash-for-vote case, the Hyderabad High Court today granted bail to him and two others accused in the case.

The High Court directed Reddy and the two others accused – Bishop Harry Sebastian and R Uday Simha – to furnish a personal bond of Rs 5 lakh each and two sureties of the like amount.

They were asked to cooperate with the investigating agency (Anti-Corruption Bureau).

Reddy was also asked to surrender his passport and not to leave his Assembly constituency.

In a ‘credit negative’ for its sovereign and bank ratings, India’s rural economy will remain subdued through this fiscal, while “some disappointment” has emerged about pace of reforms under the Modi government, global giant Moody’s said.

In its latest ‘Inside India’ report, Moody’s Investors Service said the consensus view on India’s economic growth prospects is relatively optimistic — in line with Moody’s baseline scenario of economic expansion of 7.5% in the current fiscal.

At least one person was killed in a suicide attack in Afghanistan’s Helmand province on Tuesday.

The attack, which also left 40 people injured, took place near a police station in the provincial capital Lashkar Gah, Xinhua reported.

“One militant detonated a car bomb near the police station building,” a security official said.

Islamic State (IS) militants beheaded two women in eastern Syria, the first beheading of women since the IS group came into existence in Syria, activists said on Tuesday.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based watchdog group, said the beheadings took place in the eastern province of Deir al-Zour near Iraq.

The beheading of the two women was the first such incident since the IS declared its “caliphate” in areas under its control in Syria a year ago, according to Xinhua news agency.

Four people were killed and as many others seriously injured early Tuesday in an explosion triggered by leakage of cooking gas in Mau district, police said.

A leak from an LPG cylinder in the house of Krishna Jaiswal at Majhwara Mod in Ghosi town went unoticed.

A trader hailing from Deoria, Krishna woke up early morning and lit a matchstick to light up a mosquito repellant coil.

It triggered a fire in the house. Before the family could get out, a loud explosion led to the death of four and serious burn injuries to four others.

A new study has revealed that humans across the world dance to the same beat, suggesting taal sey taal reverberates around the world.

The University of Exeter and Tokyo University of the Arts’ study has found that songs from around the world tend to share features, including a strong rhythm that enable coordination in social situations and encourage group bonding.