By Angikaar Choudhary | Kolkata
SPECIAL FEATURE The Kolkata bhadralok is a snooty lot. He is also slightly lazy. He resists change and clings on to the past. He loves his fish and his rice. He needs his cup of tea along with his biscuit every evening, ideally prepared by his wife. But on the whole, he considers himself aantel (intellectual). He prefers rumination and discussion on arts and culture and scoffs at other more practical topics, believing himself to be unworthy of such materialistic thinking. But on the whole, even if he doesn’t admit it, he still carries deep inside his heart, a childhood love for Leftist ideology.
By Dr.Rashmi Sanyal | INNLIVE
Low blood sugar levels may lead to heart rhythm disturbances and even life-threatening heart attacks, an alarming study shows.
Low overnight blood sugar levels that often go undetected cause prolonged periods of heart rhythm disturbances in older patients with type 2 diabetes and associated heart problems, revealed the research.
“What we have found is potentially important in explaining a possible mechanism by which low overnight blood sugars lead to prolonged, slow heart rates that could disturb blood flow to the heart, causing life-threatening heart attacks,” said Simon Heller, a professor from University of Sheffield in Britain.
By Aniket Sahni | Delhi
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate and mother of martyred captain Vikram Batra labelled BJP's prime minsiterial candidate Narendra Modi as 'pseudo-patriot'.
Kamal Kanta Batra, who is in the fray for the first time as an Aam Aadmi Party candidate from the Hamirpur seat, made the statement after Modi used her son Vikram Batra's off-quoted phrase 'Yeh Dil Maange More' in his three rallies in Himachal Pradesh to stir up the sentiments of the people of the hill state.
By Devisri Pandya | INNLIVE
The media has conveniently forgotten it, even as the left-liberals were confused on whether to support overtly the reverend so-and-so, the principal of a Jesuit institution in Mumbai, who had sent an email to his students, warning against “communal forces coming to power.”
Implicit in this email is the underlying message: don’t vote for the BJP and don’t make Mr. Narendra Modi, the PM. The BJP made the right noises, condemning the email. I, for one, welcome the reverend’s statement. Why, because he had the guts to say openly what the clergy—most of them, at any rate—have been doing slyly, away from the glare of publicity.
By M H Ahssan | INNLIVE
ELECTIONS SCENARIO At Durgapur one road leads to Amethi and another to Sultanpur. These are the two constituencies from which two cousins, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi and BJP general secretary Varun Gandhi, are contesting. Durgapur lies in Amethi but local residents here would like to be a part of Sultanpur and even have a banner up whose symbolism can't be missed.
The banner has been put up on behalf of 36 gram sabhas and calls for the boycotting of polls in the area on 7 May. The gram sabhas are demanding that the region must be in the Sultanpur district. The road leading to Amethi is filled with potholes and the ride is bumpy. Though the road leading to Sultanpur is no better, the issue for locals is more than just roads.
By Arhaan Faraaz | Hyderabad
The din and dust besides the stench of the verbal diarrhea raised during the three-week long electioneering, considered as one of the most bitter and fiercest fought in a poll battle, settled down with the curtains drawn on the campaign in Telangana today.
Polling will take place for 17 Lok Sabha and 119 Assembly constituencies in Telangana, the 29th state in the country to come into being officially on June 2, will take place on April 30. As many as 267 candidates are in the fray trying their luck to enter the Lok Sabha, while 1682 candidates are in the run for the Assembly seats.
By M H Ahssan | INNLIVE
INDEPTH After every US presidential election the campaign team of the losing candidate tries to identify the one moment when they believe it might have all started to unravel for their man. A tipping point of sorts that pushed the entire campaign over the cliff. Rahul Gandhi's people may well one day look back on today as one such definitive moment.
Blaring headlines on the front page of every newspaper advertising the BJP's full-frontal attack on "Damaad Shri." They would be wrong. The fatal moment -- make that, moments -- came last week: Priyanka Gandhi's embarrassingly lachrymose intervention on behalf of her husband Robert Vadra embroiled in allegations of corrupt business practices; and the party's over- the- top reaction to Narendra Modi's tub-thumping Varanasi road show.
By Kajol Singh | INNLIVE
London, Dubai and Singapore are the popular destinations for wealthy Indians when it comes to buying homes abroad. Back in the 1990s, owning a house or even an apartment in south Mumbai meant serious wealth. For the new rich, or ultra high networth individuals (HNIs) of today, to whom no place is too far to go and no price too high to pay, that address is pretty much passe.
“Some of the fanciest districts in the world, such as Kensington, Belgravia or Holland Park in London or prestigious locations such as the Burj in Dubai and Nassim Road in Singapore are among the most popular global locations for Indian ultra HNIs to own luxury residential properties,” Kotak Wealth Management and Crisil Research said in a recent report.
