Dieters Eat Healthy Foodstuffs Always

According to a new research, it was found that people who does dieting to stay slim often tends to eat healthy food. They are more likely to have healthy food rather than a non-dieter. It has been observed that non-dieters give stress on the name of the food which causes disadvantages for them. On the other hand a dieter reads the nutritional values of the food before consuming it. "Keeping your weight-loss goal in mind as you scan the lunch menu at a cafe, you are careful to avoid pasta selections and instead order from the list of salad options," said authors Caglar Irmak (University of South Carolina), Beth Vallen (Loyola University),...

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Publisher reviews claims in memoir 'Three Cups of Tea'

The publisher of US author Greg Mortenson's memoir, "Three Cups of Tea," said on Monday it was reviewing the bestseller following claims that parts of the inspirational book were fabricated. Television news program "60 Minutes" said in a Sunday broadcast that parts of Mortenson's account of a failed attempt in 1993 to climb the world's second-highest peak, K2, and being kidnapped in Pakistan in 1996, were untrue, citing several people interviewed. "60 Minutes" also reported that Mortenson was using his charitable institute, Central Asia Institute, to promote his books. "Greg Mortenson's work as a humanitarian in Afghanistan and Pakistan...

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TB screening misses 70% of latent cases

The UK should radically change its tuberculosis screening policy and include arrivals from the Indian subcontinent, which could prevent most cases of the disease, according to scientists in a paper published today. TB is a growing problem in the UK, where cases almost doubled between 1998 and 2009, and drug-resistant forms of the disease are spreading around the globe. Arrivals from sub-Saharan Africa, which carries the heaviest TB burden in the world, are X-rayed – but the test only picks up active TB cases, of which there are very few. UK screening has been missing 70% of latent TB – where the person is a carrier of the disease and may...

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No set formula for a Bollywood hit: Abhishek

Bollywood actor Abhishek Bachchan who lately suffered a string of flops, is pinning high hopes on his forthcoming release 'Dum Maro Dum' and says that there is no formula for making a successful film in Bollywood. "If there was such a formula in Bollywood, then all films would become hits," Abhishek, who was here to promote the movie, told reporters last evening. He said the success or failure of his films did not depend on him alone. "Otherwise also, if 2-3 of my films flop it does not mean that all my previous films also did not do well." The 35-year-old actor's last three films 'Raavan', 'Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Se' and 'Game' did not do...

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To many Brits, it's 'just another wedding'

"It's just another wedding," says Londoner Frank Sabine, who's training to be a taxi driver and will spend April 29 studying for his exam. "It's not really grabbing my attention. I'll leave it to the so-called royalists." Evidence that many Britons share Sabine's blasé attitude: In a ComRes survey this month, only 48% of respondents said they would tune in to a live TV broadcast of the ceremony at Westminster Abbey. (Viewership worldwide is expected to be up to 2 billion.) Recent surveys of Americans about the royal wedding produced conflicted results: A 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll in March found that 65% are not interested in the wedding. Another...

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Hot skirt of Deepika Padukone to be put up for auction

Goa: The musical track in Rohan Sippy produced Dum Maro Dum portrayed the scintillating Deepika vibrating to the beats of a remix. Barefooted Deepika dressed in white attracted much attention. Stretchable blouse exposing her back was made to accompany a shimmering skirt of chiffon make. The skirt which looked breathtaking with the attached metallic sheeting was held on by a leather strap. Well, the news is the entire unit involved with the film has chosen to contribute the awesome dress to a humanitarian cause. The intended auction will be launched through its website. The skirt will be put on an online auction so that the revenue obtained...

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Icons move as firms get lean & mean

The Indian IT industry has been making news since the days when the world feared a digital Armageddon of sorts by Y2K. After that moment the IT firms thrived, wrote codes for giants worldwide, changed Bangalore city and, more importantly, the way Indians look at themselves and the way the world look at Indians. A decade down, now it is payback time. The news began with Wipro firing its twin CEOs and putting in place one man. T K Kurien is someone known as a hard taskmaster. Then came the news of the man who built Wipro Infotech, Ashok Soota, quitting the company he co-founded with his Wipro colleagues, MindTree to launch a new one called Beautiful...

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Unitech says denial of bail to MD will not affect business

A CBI court earlier on Wednesday rejected bail applications of five business executives, including that of Unitech's managing director Sanjay Chandra, charged in a multi-billion dollar telecoms licensing scandal. The executives will be held in jail pending the trial over the sale of telecoms licences at below-market prices. Unitech said in a statement the "development" would not adversely affect its real estate business as it was "with respect" to telecoms business Unitech Wireless. "Unitech is managed by a competent set of senior experienced professionals and promoters and will continue to pursue its growth plans," Unitech said in a statement. Chandra...

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Will banks hike lending rates? RBI policy a key trigger

Will your bank hike lending rates? “Depends on RBI’s monetary policy stance on May 3”. That was the stock answer of most bankers to Moneycontrol.com’s query on whether they would follow State Bank of India. SBI, the country’s largest lender on Tuesday hiked lending rates by 25 basis points. But other banks said they would wait for the Reserve Bank’s decision on policy rates, before hiking their rates. Bankers widely expect RBI to hike key policy rates (repo and reverse repo) by 25 basis points. Repo is at the rate at which the RBI lends to banks, and reverse repo is the rate at which it borrows money from banks. “We expect a 25 basis point...

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200 Killed In Nigeria's Post Election Violence

Abuja  : At least 200 people have been killed and thousands displaced in post-election violence in Nigeria, a civil rights group said today, as the loosing Muslim candidate General Muhammadu Buhari alleged rigging.  Buhari also vowed in a statement seen by PTI to recover “a stolen mandate” a declaration interpreted by analysts to mean that the former military dictator may be going to court to challenge the outcome of the election.  The violence erupted close on the heels of incumbent Goodluck Jonathan emerging victorious in Presidential polls. Civil Rights Congress (CRC) in an emailed statement here signed by its president,...

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Massive Cleanup After Deadly Storms In US South

North Carolina  :  Shards of glass from old bottles and furniture smashed by a tornado that tore through town littered the concrete floor of Rhonda Carter’s antique store, shattering her plans to open an auction house in nearby Salemburg. A storage area in the back was flattened. “I just had a feeling something bad was going to happen, and it did,” Carter said of Saturday, when storms raged through Bonnetsville and other parts of North Carolina, killing at least 23 and damaging or destroying more than 800 homes. “Now I’m starting over.” From remote rural communities to the state’s second-largest city, thousands of residents hit...

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Fire In Philippine Capital Leaves 8,000 Homeless

Manila  : Philippine authorities are blaming a defective electrical outlet for a massive fire that razed a squatters’ colony in Manila’s financial district and left about 8,000 people homeless. Fire chief Ricardo Perdigon in Makati city says a tenant plugged in a cellphone charger and ran outside after sparks triggered a fire that spread quickly to other homes Tuesday in the congested community near the city’s main highway. Perdigon said Wednesday that nine people suffered light burns and bruises in the inferno, which gutted the impoverished neighborhood and left 1,600 families, or about 8,000 people, homeless. The Makati social welfare...

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Interlocutors Meet Ansari, Hurriyat Suspends Him

Srinagar : After months of efforts to break the ice with separatists, Centre’s interlocutors on Kashmir today met former Hurriyat Chairman Maulana Abbas Ansari, a move which irked the moderate faction which suspended him from the amalgam. “This morning we met Ansari at his residence to discuss ways and means to carry forward the dialogue process that would lead to a peaceful settlement in Jammu and Kashmir,” chief of the three-member interlocutors’ team Dileep Padgaonkar told reporters here. He said the discussion, lasting a little over an hour, was conducted in a cordial and constructive spirit. “Maulana Ansari informed us that he favoured...

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Amar Singh Contradicts Shanti Bhushan's Claim

New Delhi : In the continuing war of words with the Bhushans, Amar Singh today dismissed the claim of eminent lawyer Shanti Bhushan that the two have never met and that he had used his chartered aircraft to go to Lucknow for appearing in a case. Addressing a press conference here, he said that he had participated in a lawyer-client conference in the Samajwadi Party case when some BSP MLAs had joined it in 2006, in which he had a role. The party also paid the lawyer Rs 50 lakh to fight the anti-defection case. Singh, who has been accused by Shanti Bhushan and his son Prashant of being involved in fabricating a CD against them, the senior...

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I Don't Support Politics Of Smear Campaign: Sonia Tells Hazare

New Delhi : Responding to Anna Hazare’s complaint against her “colleagues”, Congress President Sonia Gandhi today assured him that she does not support “politics of smear campaign” and she was strongly committed to the institution of Lokpal. Writing to Hazare, the Chairperson of National Advisory Council (NAC) said she believes there is “urgent necessity” to combat graft and corruption and he should not “doubt my commitment in the fight for probity in public life”. She pointed out that the Lokpal bill is very much part of the agenda of the NAC and a Working Group has been formed to evolve broad principles for discussion and approval in the...

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