Calcium has been known long as good for our bones, but it might also be the key to a good night’s sleep, says a new study, unveiling a new theory how sleep works. The study showed that sleep depends on the activity of calcium inside neurons. Moreover, it was also revealed that a mechanism regulated […]
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Decorating your house is indeed an interesting activity, choosing each and every item piece by piece to suit the most special corners of your house is a task in itself. Here’s some help in order to make a sound choice… Colour of your house This is one of the most important factors, if your walls
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Have you ever cracked an egg just to see white strings hanging from the yolk? To suspecting eyes, it may look like a tiny chicken embryo or umbilical cord but in reality it is a sign that your eggs are fresh! They are absolutely safe to eat. Basically, egg yolk is a bag of concentrated
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She’s young, independent and beautiful than ever. Meet the pretty Indian bride, who resides in each one of us and has come of age in every sense of the word. Gone are the days, when she used to run to the neighbouring parlour wali aunty to book a slot for her D-day and chose a
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Experts tell you how to own up to your mistakes and clear the mess in your personal and professional lives. To many of us, ‘sorry’ really is the hardest word to say. Owning up to your mistake can be tough, be it at the workspace or personal space. So how does one move on and
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We live in a world of instant gratification. Whether it’s instant coffee or instant noodles, we want it and want it right now. So, why should love be left behind? Well, dating apps such as Tinder, OkCupid, TrulyMadly, Woo and various others are here precisely for the same reason. Almost all these dating apps operate
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Few people will have any objections to chanting “Bharat Mata ki Jai (Glory to Mother India)”, but are unlikely to accept the idea of being compelled to say it. They may still do so out of fear, but that can hardly be the kind of patriotism which the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat
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With back-to-back droughts hitting the agriculture output hard, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today called for steps to conserve water and asked farmers to focus on crop diversification and go for allied activities like dairy, poultry and food processing to boost their income. Inaugurating a three-day ‘Krishi Unnati Mela’, PM Modi said since May 2014 when
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The “Bachchan boys” will be at the India-Pakistan World T20 cricket match in Kolkata, where megastar Amitabh Bachchan is also slated to sing the Indian national anthem. “Bachchan boyz in da house!!! Let’s do this India!! Come on India, Kolkata bound,” Abhishek shared on Instagram with a photograph featuring the father-daughter duo in a flight.
Sunny Leone grabbed headlines earlier this year when she was asked if Aamir Khan would like to work with her during a controversial interview with Bhupendra Chaubey. In response to the highly viral interview, Aamir Khan stated that he would love to work with Leone in the future. However, it is Shah Rukh Khan, who
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If you are visiting a government office in Kazakhstan, you will now have to leave your smartphone at the reception irrespective of if you are an on-duty official or a common man. According to a report in www.sbs.com.au, a leaked government memo suggests that officials and visitors in Kazakhstan will no longer be allowed to
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Superstar Shah Rukh Khan has confirmed that he is in talks with Aanand L Rai, Imtiaz Ali and five other directors for their upcoming projects. The 50-year-old actor, however, said he will be able to divulge more details only by June-July, when he starts working on the “new movies.” When asked if he is playing
Star wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt on Saturday secured an Olympic quota place for India after making the final round of the men’s 65kg freestyle event on the second day of the Asian Olympic Qualification tournament in Astana. Yogeshwar became the second Indian wrestler after Narsingh Yadav to book a berth for the Rio Games, to be
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In-form Indian women will look to registering their second win in as many matches when they face Pakistan in a World Twenty20 match at the Ferozeshah Kotla here on Saturday. Unlike their male counterparts, there isn’t as much history between Indian and Pakistan women and that’s why it hasn’t created the hype and hoopla that
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A Florida jury sided with ex-pro wrestler Hulk Hogan on Friday and awarded him $115 million in his sex tape lawsuit against Gawker Media. The jurors reached the decision on Friday evening, less than six hours after they began deliberations. The trial lasted two weeks, and Hogan wept as the verdict was read. The jury
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JNU students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya were released from jail after they were granted interim bail on Friday. Both the JNU students arrested in a sedition case almost a month ago, were granted bail for six months by a Delhi court. Students at JNU cheered the duo’s release even as actor Anupam Kher, who
Actor Randeep Hooda, who has walked ramp for many designers, says he might launch a fashion line in future, but for now he is finding his “own footing in style”. Bollywood stars like Kangana Ranaut, Alia Bhatt, Deepika Padukone as well as Karan Johar have shared their fashion sense through a line, capsule collection or
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The trailer of Kali was released online a few days back and it has been in the news ever since. The Malayalam film starring Dulquer Salmaan and Sai Pallavi is directed by Sameer Thahir. Now, a controversy has erupted online over the trailer – not for its content but for the fact that the original
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TOIFA 2016 – Bollywood’s most celebrated awards show wraps up with a full house at the Dubai International Stadium, Dubai Sports City. With the wave of the most popular celebrities at the event, it was a complete entertainment gala for the Dubai fans. Along with the awards, Bollywood celebrities also won the audiences’ hearts with
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When families such as this one surface in films, the norm is to label them “dysfunctional”. If, however, we confront the harsh – yet oddly consoling – reality that everyone’s parivaar is as flawed as our own, we might face up to a truth most societies seem to want to ignore. The truth that even
In a year when at least 174 farmers in the State committed suicide over crop failure, the Odisha government Saturday presented its annual Budget allocating 20 per cent more funds to the agriculture than it did last year. Presenting a Budget of Rs 94052.65 crore in the State Assembly, State finance minister Pradip Amat said
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Liquor baron Vijay Mallya’s flight to his British nest to allegedly escape financial fraud charges back home could be a masterstroke because extraditing an Indian economic offender from the UK is extremely difficult. India has an extradition treaty with the UK but criminal lawyer Majeed Memon said it is tough to convince British authorities that
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The United States and the Philippines have agreed on five locations for US military bases in the Philippines under a security agreement inked amid rising tensions with China in the South China Sea, US officials said on Friday. The US State Department named the five as Antonio Bautista Air Base, Basa Air Base, Fort Magsaysay,
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For the second day in a row, YSR Congress MLA R K Roja was prevented from entering Andhra Pradesh Assembly today even as her party colleagues came to the House wearing black clothes in protest. Inside the House, the YSRC members stormed the Speaker’s podium raising slogans like “we want justice”, causing a din. The
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Congress leader Manish Tewari on Saturday said that one should not be surprised over the ongoing friction in the PDP-BJP alliance in Jammu and Kashmir while alleging that it was an ‘unnatural’ alliance of ideologically incompatibles. “PDP and the BJP was an unnatural alliance. It was an alliance of ideologically incompatibles. Just because of political
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The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen may be responsible for “international crimes”, a category that includes war crimes and crimes against humanity, the top U.N. human rights official said on Friday. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, condemned an air strike in Yemen this week and added that the coalition
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UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon urged North Korea to comply with UN Security Council resolutions and to halt inflammatory and escalatory actions. Stephane Dujarric, UN secretary-general’s spokesperson, told a daily briefing on Friday that “the situation on the Korean peninsula, including the latest ballistic missile launches, is deeply troubling”, Xinhua news agency reported. “We once again
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The European Union sealed a controversial deal with Turkey on Friday intended to halt illegal migration flows to Europe in return for financial and political rewards for Ankara. The accord aims to close the main route by which a million refugees and refugees poured across the Aegean Sea to Greece in the last year before
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A top judge in Brazil ruled on Friday that Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva should be stripped of a ministerial role so he can be investigated for graft, minutes after the ex-president rallied tens of thousands of supporters behind embattled President Dilma Rousseff. In a move likely to inflame tensions between the judiciary and Brazil’s
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On a day when the report of Comptroller and Auditor-General of India (CAG) laid in the Bihar Assembly highlighted the poor performance of the State government, the MLAs appeared to be the happiest lot. For cartons of microwave ovens and rows of trolley bags meant for them were seen stacked up inside and outside the
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