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Indian Stock Market Updates: Bye cotton! Scientists make new material for garments

Here comes a big challenge to cotton as a fabric! Scientists have discovered a new material which can replace cotton in garments. Scientists have developed a new carbon nanotube-based material that is much stronger than traditional cotton fibres, and can be used in making garments... more »

Indian Stock Market Updates: Now, a 'wine' drug for fatal diseases

A drug that fights aging and halts the onset of diabetes, cancer and heart disease, may hit market shelves in another five years, claim researchers.According to scientists, the magical drug can be used to prevent Alzheimer’s and can also reinvigorate patients giving them more stamina. The drug is made up of chemicals that mimic resveratrol, a .. more »

Indian Stock Market Updates: Fit and fat: Study shows it's possible

It may be possible to be both fat and healthy, researchers reported on Monday, for at least half of overweight adults, and close to a third of obese men and women, have normal blood pressure, cholesterol and other measures of heart health.And being lean does not necessarily protect people, either. Close to a quarter of normal-weight U.S. adults .. more »

Indian Stock Market Updates: Want to live a long life? Run

People who want to live a long and healthy life might want to take up running. A study published on Monday shows middle-aged members of a runner’s club were half as likely to die over a 20-year period as people who did not run.Running reduced the risk not only of heart disease, but of cancer and neurological diseases such as Alzheimer’s, .. more »

Indian Stock Market Updates: Finally, a pill to cure common cold

Got a cold? Now, you can get rid of it by simply popping a pill. Scientists have long grappled for ways to cure common cold. Now, an international team has developed a drug which it claims can be effective against bugs that cause half of colds in adults and almost all colds in children... more »

Indian Stock Market Updates: How to boost your energy?

Energy, like the Biblical grain of mustard seed, will move mountains,” so said Hosea Ballou, the famous theological writer.The most severe limiting factors when you are working towards a better life is your level of energy. But, it is easy to reduce the number of times you feel too tired to accomplish your goals. All you need to do is..... more »

Indian Stock Market Updates: North pole may be ice-free by 2013

The meltdown in the Arctic is speeding up and as a result the north pole could be ice-free by 2013 instead of in 60 years’ time as earlier predicted, scientists have warned... more »

Indian Stock Market Updates: Work hard, sleep harder

Cut down screen time You may be logging in to your email account or maybe watching a movie every night before you go to sleep, or even playing a game on your mobile, and SMSing your friends while at it. You may only be killing time and waiting for your eyes to get droopy. However, that’s exactly what you shouldn’t be doing. When you sit in .. more »

Indian Stock Market Updates: Fertiliser shares find buyers on new urea investment policy

With the long-awaited new urea investment policy finally coming into place, fertiliser companies have more than one reason to smile, and which is clearly reflected in their share prices. The policy is expected to encourage fresh investments into the sector, leading to capacity expansion. It would also boost the flagging urea production, reducing .. more »

Indian Stock Market Updates: Reliance to invest $23 m for work on Cauvery asset

Reliance Industries plans to invest about $22.75 million for work on its discovered deepwater Cauvery asset. The company, in its appraisal programme submitted to the block management panel, has proposed to drill more wells — one each in the ‘firm’ category and the ‘to mature’ segment... more »

Indian Stock Market Updates: Singles as healthy as those married

Single persons are becoming almost as healthy as their married counterparts, according to a new study. ui Liu of Michigan State University and lead researcher of the study said sociologists since the 1970s have emphasised that marriage benefits health, more so for men than for women... more »

Indian Stock Market Updates: Did you thank God today?

Ego manifests itself in different forms. We usually refer to ego as pride. We can have pride of knowledge, power and wealth. We attribute all that we are and all that we have done to our own individual efforts. We think we are superior to others in many ways... more »

Indian Stock Market Updates: Divorced middle-aged men 'get worst sleep'

Are you a divorced middle-aged man? Well, this can affect your sleep, suggests a new study. Researchers in Britain have found that separated men in their middle-age are becoming more and more short-tempered, emotional and are underperforming at work due to a lack of sleep. The study has revealed that divorced male lawyers in their 50s, who live in .. more »

Indian Stock Market Updates: Fond of 'punjabi' food? God bless your heart!

If your tongue craves for rich ’butter-chicken’ and mouth starts to water at the mere sight of those oil-rich ‘punjabi’ delicacies...you are at risk of getting heart problems. Cardiovascular disease has become a major health concern in India... more »

Indian Stock Market Updates: Want to lose weight? Eat eggs for breakfast

Eating at least two eggs for breakfast helps overweight adults lose more weight and feel more energetic, revealed a new study by an Indian-origin researcher. Nikhil V Dhurandhar, PhD, lead researcher and associate professor in the laboratory of infection and obesity at Pennington Biomedical Research Center said that eating two eggs in the .. more »

Indian Stock Market Updates: What's cooking?

Relationships, especially marriages, are supposed to last a lifetime. And while most people are shocked to find out that their partner is very much in love... with someone else, there are tell-tale signs in most cases of infedility. It’s just that you don’t see them or rather, ignore them. Well, sweeping it under the carpet isn’t going to .. more »

Indian Stock Market Updates: Bindra wins India's first solo gold

Abhinav Bindra won India’s first ever individual Olympic gold medal on Monday with a thrilling come-from-behind victory in the men’s 10m air rifle.Bindra had been fourth after qualifying but had a brilliant final round and even hit a near perfect 10.8 on his last shot to pull in front of Henri Hakkinen of Finland, who dropped to bronze with a .. more »

Indian Stock Market Updates: The world's most expensive holiday package

Got a million dollars to splurge on a holiday? You stand to figure in the Guinness Book of World Records. A hotel in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is hoping to enter the Guinness Book of World Records by offering what is being dubbed as the world’s most expensive holiday package.. more »

Indian Stock Market Updates: What to do when germs attack

There’s never a good time to catch a cold or come down with the flu, but you don’t have to take it lying down. So what should you do? Take high doses of vitamin C? Suck on some zinc lozenges? Or do you stick to Mom’s old-fashioned remedies: bowls of chicken soup, hot tea, and menthol rubs to fight off those bugs the best you can?.. more »

Indian Stock Market Updates: In India, even God is helpless, says SC

In India, even God cannot help. He will be a silent spectator as He will also feel helpless" — this observation came from the Supreme Court on Tuesday as it expressed its frustration over the reluctance of the Centre and state governments to take tough measures against bureaucrats and others unauthorisedly overstaying in government .. more »

Indian Stock Market Updates: Reliance Power to raise $2.5 bln loan - sources

Reliance Power Ltd is planning to raise as much as $2.5 billion through India’s largest rupee-denominated loan this year to fund a power project, two bankers familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.Reliance Power, part of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, has hired SBI Capital Markets, a unit of State Bank of India, to raise the funds for its .. more »

Indian Stock Market Updates: Traces of HIV drug in mother's milk

A drug used in the developing world to prevent HIV transmission from mother to child persists in breast milk, exposing their newborns to risk of developing drug-resistant strains of the virus. Researchers found that the drug nevirapine stays in the blood and breast milk of the infected mothers for at least two weeks... more »

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