The researchers found that a blueberry-supplemented diet did not improve sight in the dark in diabetics, but they did help participants recover normal vision after exposure to a bright light.
Contrary to claims by health food advocates, researchers have found reason to doubt that the blueberries help most healthy people see better in the dark.
The researchers found that a blueberry-supplemented diet did not improve sight in the dark, but they did help participants recover normal vision after exposure to a bright light.
The gloss of the PR has done nothing to remove the grim reality of rural Maharashtra’s tribal boarding schools, which remain death-traps for children, reports INNLIVE.
The façade is impressive: A group of smiling children, smartly dressed in pink-and-green school uniforms play on a lush green ground, while in the backdrop is a beautifully designed green-and-white building with a board that says ‘Shasakiya Prathmik va Madhyamik Ashramshala’. This is the cover picture of an information booklet brought out by the Maharashtra government’s tribal development department. However, the reality of the ashramshalas, or boarding schools for tribal children, in the state is a far cry from what the image depicts.
Last week, Bengaluru Transport Commissioner got many angry visitors, taxi and auto unions who wanted the commissioner to stop their ‘competition’ from decreasing prices.
In Chennai, a group of taxi drivers barged into the office of another Taxi service and protested claiming the cheap rates offered by the competition was destroying their livelihood.
This is what the latest e-commerce battle is all about. New-age online radio cab services have waged a war on traditional transport operators in India with numerous offers and competitive prices. These three companies that are competing to demolish other taxi services, are also in constant competition with each other.
A new, militant Muslim culture is beginning to emerge in the Indian polity. The urban, liberal, middle-class section of the community is the public face of the phenomenon.
The growth and consolidation of the middle class had been sluggish and disjointed among the Muslims, primarily due to the control exercised by the clergy. Nevertheless, the emergence of liberal Muslims reinforced the value attached to amity between the two major religious communities in the country. However, that began to change when these new liberals started suffering from an aspirational crisis. They realised that the ruling elite had failed them — a perception underlined by the findings of the Rajinder Sachar Committee. The result was a deepening alienation.
Seeing my uncles leave their parents and set up separate homes no matter how much they loved their parents and wanted to keep them along, was a normal for me as a young girl.
I never bothered to think about it. Though I saw the pain in the eyes of these old and ailing parents, I thought it probably was more important for a man to listen to his wife than to those who brought him up in this world, taught him how to walk and made him the man he is today. I grew up and saw few of these men completely snapped from family ties but once again I never bothered to ask much.
A seven-kilometre stretch on the River Ganga in Varanasi is said to be a sanctuary to a special kind of turtles- the kind that feed on the dead, the flesh eating ones. They eat human and animal remains which are often dumped into the river.
Releasing the reptiles in the contaminated water of the Ganga was part of a project, aimed at bringing down pollution levels in the river, initiated after the launch of the Ganga Action Plan in the late eighties.
The turtles, which can either be of the herbivorous or carnivorous kind, are reared for almost a year and a half after which they are released in the water.
Height of laziness has broken all its previous records when a man, 33 years old and with 135 kg weight , was found seeking “depression” to reduce some body weight.
Media got to know about him through his much trending Facebook post saying, “I wish depression to make hold on me to eventually burn this deadly fat accumulated over my body. Have lost will to work out in gym.”
Personal vendetta, love affairs and property disputes are the other top reasons.
In an age in which India has sent a mission to Mars, witchcraft is still among the top 11 motives for murder in the nation, according to National Crime Records Bureau data for 2013.
Last year, the data says, there were 33,201 murders and another 3,380 cases of culpable homicide not amounting to murder. Personal vendetta, love affairs and property disputes were the top reasons for the murders. Witchcraft was the motive for 160 deaths. In the last decade, 32,000-34,000 people on average were murdered every year.
