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India: For A Fair Child, Eat This; For A Boy, Eat That! – Pregnancy Linked Foods And Fads – Aastha Kant
- February 27, 2012
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During pregnancy, the nutritional requirements of women increase to support optimum foetal growth and development as well as to prepare her for lactation and the stresses of childbearing. Poor maternal nutrition during pregnancy usually results in low birth weight and high pre-natal and infant mortality, as well as the continuation of the inter-generational cycle of malnutrition. Unfortunately, inIndia, this phase [...]
Paracetamol takes pain out of rejection
- February 27, 2012
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A dose of paracetamol is enough to take the pain out of rejection and a broken heart, scientists say. The cure emerged in a study by neuroscientists which found that emotional pain is processed in the same area of the brain as physical pain. They also discovered that hurt feelings can respond to painkillers. In a three-week trial at the [...]
Making housing affordable: Realty industry needs budget boost -Vinod Behl
- February 27, 2012
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The previous annual budget presented by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee failed to come up with some substantial measures to boost the realty industry, especially the housing sector. With the realty industry still not out of the woods, stakeholders are eagerly awaiting this year’s budget to crack the frozen property market. Limited access to funds, increasing cost of debt to both [...]
Green tea business grows in India amid health awareness – Mithun Dasgupta
- February 27, 2012
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More and more tea makers are adding green tea in their portfolio as consumers in India are developing a taste for the beverage for its many health-promoting effects. Green tea consumption in India is rising at a rate of more than 10 percent annually. According to J Thomas & Company, the world’s largest tea auctioneer, consumption of green tea, considered [...]
The Sundarbans – Unique Ecosystem for Wildlife – Kalpana Palkhiwala
- February 27, 2012
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The Sundarbans is the largest single block of tidal halophytic mangrove forest in the world. It is the estuarine phase of the Ganges as well as Brahmaputra river systems. It lies at the mouth of the Ganges and is spread across areas of Bangladesh and West Bengal, India, forming the seaward fringe of the delta. The typical littoral forests of Sundarbans comprises of a host [...]
E-textbooks knocking at Indian classroom doors – Anjali Ojha
- February 27, 2012
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For a generation that has learnt to articulate thoughts in 140 characters and knows its smartphones and tabs, e-textbooks are only the next step. But some infrastructure bottlenecks need to be taken care of before that education revolution takes place in India, experts say. Technology giant Apple recently launched an app for digital textbooks that saw an astronomical 350,000 downloads [...]
Cellphone holding shows your dominant side of brain
- February 27, 2012
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If your left brain is dominant, then you are likely to hold your cellphone in the right hand and place it against the same side ear, says a new medical research which finds a strong link between brain dominance and the ear used to hear the cell phone. The study by Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, finds a strong link between [...]
The 2G Judgement Dismisses Sibal’s No-Loss Argument – Prabir Purkayastha, Newsclick
- February 27, 2012
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The Supreme Court’s judgement on 2G of cancelling the 122 licenses awarded in 2008 has blown away the vacuous claims that Sibal, the Minister for Communications and IT had been making of “no loss”. Sibal had even gone further talking of “gains” that the country has made by giving spectrum at throw away prices. The Court has dismissed this perverted [...]
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