With level 2 heat alert in England, climate experts have predicted soaring temperatures and very high UV rays this year that can even put some people in danger.
Boots pharmacist Angela Chalmers claims that heatwaves can be extremely dangerous, especially for the very young and old, pregnant women and those with existing health conditions such as high blood pressure, heart issues, diabetes, kidney, liver or circulation problems, reported the Mirror.
A new study has suggested that hikers, football players, endurance athletes and elite and recreational exercisers can avoid water intoxication by drinking only when thirsty during exercise.
As per the updated consensus statement on exercise-associated hyponatremia (EAH), using the innate thirst mechanism to guide fluid consumption is a strategy that should limit drinking in excess and developing hyponatremia (low blood sodium) while providing sufficient fluid to prevent excessive dehydration.
Ramadan is on and so are late night snacks which may add kilos to the hungry belly.
But by following these simple and easy tips one can save himself from unnecessary weight gain, reports Al Arabiya news.
1.Choose stress free food that has low cortisol levels as it helps in reducing belly fat.
2.Do not avoid eating high fiber plants such as Broccoli, Brussels sprout, pees as they are the best fat cutter.
3.Regular hormonal check is a must and one natural way of balancing out the hormonal act is taking flaxseed and chia seeds.
US President Barack Obama on Wednesday said that last week when he won historic victories on trade, healthcare and gay rights was “gratifying”, but his “best week ever”, was when he married Michelle, the First Lady.
“In terms of my best week, now my best week, I will tell you, was marrying Michelle. That was a really good week. Malia and Sasha being born, excellent weeks,” Obama told reporters at a White House news conference.
Obama was responding a question if last week’s two important orders by the Supreme Court was the best week ever.
A researcher is developing vaccine to protect global communities from malaria.
University of Oklahoma’s scientist has discovered a new mosquito protein for the development of a new vaccine that is expected to stop the spread of the disease in areas where it is considered endemic.
Researchers have discovered a key mechanism underlying how animals keep track of the seasons.
The RIKEN Brain Science Institute study shows how circadian clock machinery in the brain encodes seasonal changes in daylight duration through GABA activity along with changes in the amount of chloride located inside certain neurons.
Seasonal time keeping is important for animals as well as people, and recent studies indicate that it is accomplished by the same part of the brain that governs our daily circadian rhythms.
A key element of human language has been discovered in babbler bird.
Stringing together meaningless sounds to create meaningful signals was previously thought to be the preserve of humans alone, but the new study has revealed that babbler birds are also able to communicate in this way.
Researchers at the Universities of Exeter and Zurich discovered that the chestnut-crowned babbler, a highly social bird found in the Australian Outback, has the ability to convey new meaning by rearranging the meaningless sounds in its calls.
Five Indian-origin persons are among seven charged with conspiring to commit bank fraud in the US through a scheme that resulted in losses of over USD three million to the victims.
Jyoteshna Karan, 43, Praveen Singh, 36 and Mahendra Prasad, 53, of California have been arrested while the remaining defendants each received summons to appear for arraignment- Phul Singh, 79, and Sunita Singh, 60, Nani Isaac, 69 and Martin Bahrami, 42. If convicted, each defendant faces a maximum statutory penalty of 30 years in prison and a million dollar fine per count.
The Madras High Court today declined to quash murder case proceedings in a lower court at Tirunelveli against a former Deputy Superintendent of Police on the ground that he was not protected under the Criminal Procedure Code as he had acted beyond his jurisdictional area.
Rejecting the plea of I Eswaran, the second accused in the case, Justice M M Sundaresh said he had not performed his duty in his jurisdictional area of Nagercoil, but in Tirunelveli district, allegedly causing the death of a man. Then he would not be protected under CrPc.
Music discovery platform Shazam has released a new feature in partnership with over two dozen artists that will allow Shazam users to see which songs their favorite musicians are listening to on the service
According to Shazam, the company has signed up over 30 top artists to participate in its new song-sharing feature, including well-known names like Pitbull, Calvin Harris, Maroon 5, Meghan Trainor, Coldplay, Usher, One Direction, Alicia Keys, Shakira, Mariah Carey, Imagine Dragons, Linkin Park and many others.
Literacy rate in rural areas was pegged at 71 per cent last year, compared to 86 per cent in urban areas, while among the age group of seven years and above, male literacy rate was found higher than the female literacy rate, according to NSSO survey released today.
Among the age group of seven year and above, the male literacy rate was registered at 83 per cent vis-a-vis the female literacy rate of 67 per cent, an official statement said.
Google has released an update of Google Hangouts app for iOS.
According to thenextweb.com, the new update includes a new design and better support for adding stickers, emoji and pictures.
In addition, the dialer got a redesign for the user wants to make a phone call via Hangouts.
There’s also a new quick compose button that allows the user to quickly find contacts they chat with often. Users can also access images, stickers and emoji much easier with the new attachment buttons. Sharing multiple photos at once is also available in Hangouts 4.0.
Russian investigators announced today that Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky might have ordered the murder of a Siberian mayor, saying they would seek to question the self-exiled former tycoon.
Investigators said they were reviving a criminal probe into the 1998 murder amid efforts by Khodorkovsky, chief of the former oil company Yukos, to challenge President Vladimir Putin’s grip on power from his self-imposed exile in Switzerland.
Khodorkovsky, once Russia’s richest man, suggested that authorities were seeking to punish him for his criticsm of the Kremlin.
Facebook has rolled out its Ads Manager app which allows marketers to create and track campaigns on the move for Android.
According to thenextweb.com, the app lets the users set up new ads with text and images, edit existing ads and regulate their selected audience settings, budget and schedule on their device.
The app also notifies users when their ads are about to end as well as when they will hit their spending limit. They can also see how much they have spent at any time.
A 30-year-old woman, lodged in jail number 6 of Tihar prison, today allegedly tried to commit suicide by hanging herself.
Another inmate reported the matter to the security guards and the woman was rushed to the Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital, officials said.
She later returned to the jail after being discharged and was sent for counselling, they said.
The woman, identified as Parminder, is reportedly serving a life sentence in a murder case. She was reported to be depressed for the past few days as no one from her family had come to meet her for a very long time.
Twitteriffic has added a new feature that will now take better advantage of Twitter’s new quote tweet feature and use facial recognition software to help user frame their shots on iOS.
According to thenextweb.com, when someone quotes the users tweet, Twitteriffic will give them the option to see notifications on their iOS devices or Apple Watch.
The pop-up notifications let the users know they were quoted and by whom, just like they see with retweets.
In addition, the facial recognition feature is designed to deal with sloppy snaps, making people in an image the main focus.
Microsoft has released a latest preview of Windows 10 along with other new features including Microsoft Edge and Wi-fi that will come with the platform.
The users will have to download Windows 10’s latest preview build for PCs, to use the new feature available.
Microsoft Edge, initially developed under the codename Project Spartan, is a web browser in development by Microsoft.
If you too are done with your phone battery draining out quickly then this news might relief you as the leading electronic company Samsung will soon reportedly bring a new technology that will allow your phone to run for a week after a single charge.
According to Business Korea, Samsung’s next generation batteries will be made of a substance called graphene-coated silicon, which will be able to hold more energy than the current graphite cathode power cells, the Mirror reported.
Four constables and a former policeman from Telangana were arrested today for allegedly robbing a financier of a precious stone among other items.
Osmania University (OU) Police arrested Constables D Balu Naik, K Rajugopal, M Srinu Naik and Y Raju – attached to different wings in Hyderabad and Nalgonda district of Telangana, Deputy Commissioner of Police (East Zone) V Ravinder said.
The fifth accused was identified as C Venkata Rajam, a constable who has been dismissed from service, he said.
LatentView Analytics, one of the largest and fastest growing specialty data analytics firms, today announced that it has been named the 2015 ‘Company of the Year: Analytics’ by Frost & Sullivan’s India ICT Awards.
The award recognizes LatentView’s outstanding business performance, innovative business strategies, and product offerings, as well as its efforts to improve the data analytics industry as a whole.
CAG today picked holes in the Delhi government’s MLALAD scheme saying that it suffered from “many deficiencies” and several revisions over the years had resulted in the gradual “dilution” of its guidelines.
In its report tabled in the Delhi Assembly, the government auditor said that the shortcomings had led to absence of clarity and transparency in implementation of the scheme.
Packaging firm Time Technoplast today said it has bought out the remaining 50 per cent stake in a joint venture in Egypt for USD 9,00,000.
The company had set up a 50:50 JV with local partner in Egypt for manufacture of drums, jerrycans and pails at Suez in Egypt.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday dubbed Congress as an ‘anti-development party’ saying that the latter wanted to obstruct the government from developing the nation.
“Congress is an anti-development, anti-people, anti-growth party. It wants to hinder the development of the country. They could not do anything in the past ten years. So, they want to create problems against the government from making the country progress,” said BJP leader Siddharth Nath Singh.
Haryana government today approved an amendment in the Punjab Passenger and Goods Taxation Rules, 1952, to revise the rates of goods tax on commercial vehicles.
The rates of goods tax on commercial vehicles have now been rationalised and revised in order to keep up with the passage of time and the rates in the neighbouring states, said an official release.
This will also bring in additional tax revenue to the state, to the extent of about Rs 170 crore per annum, it said.