Check your cheeks to prevent heart attacks

With heart diseases on the rise in India, 12% of the population affected by cardiovascular diseases, the medical fraternity thinks it imperative that people get more familiar about precautions and identifying symptoms before it’s too late.
Now an accurate reading of a person’s heart can be acquired through a new device in Bangalore by analyzing DNA from saliva and cheek cells. The device called Jai Heart was launched by Jai Health, is the first of its kind that offers analysis results through gene detection. It was developed specifically for Indians, South-East Asians and Middle Eastern people, all of whom are said to be genetically prone to heart related problems.
The device can make an estimate when cholesterol checks, blood pressure, blood sugar and ECG fail to detect too, as is the case sometimes. Since more and more Indians are falling victims at an earlier age with 25% patients under 40 years of age, this device promises to make a breakthrough difference in curbing the disease. Lifestyle and health changes can be made after the reports at the earliest to lessen risk factors.

(Based on Timesofindia.indiatimes.com)

Indians obsessed with fair skin, light eyes, grumbles dusky star

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Sameera Reddy, the dusky beauty from down South with a fading Bollywood career seems a bit piqued.
She grumbles that Indians are obsessed with a sense of beauty, implying that doesn’t leave much chance for those like her to score high in the film industry. It’s the cliched North Indian notion of light skin, light eyes, straight hair and slim figure, reminiscent of Kareena Kapoor, Aishwarya Rai etc. She feels its time people moved away from the mindset that dusky, voluptuous, dark eyed women are not as beautiful.
Sameera said that she thinks beauty in the traditional Indian woman is essentially warm skin tone (dusky), dark eyes with a bit of ‘oomph’ (curves). She takes the example of actress Madhuri Dixit. “When she smiles, there is nobody who can match her.” She also mentioned Kajol and from the newer lot Kareena, who she admits definitely has that “X factor." Sameera will be soon seen in a cameo in Prakash Jha’s ‘Chakravyuh’.

(Based on Msn.com)

Engineering students wheel in the future

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At an inter-college design competition held by the SAE India (Society for Automobile Engineering) at Chandigarh, engineering students from Muffakham Jah College of Engineering & Technology stood first in the Andhra Pradesh contest, securing eight positions in India for a technological breakthrough. They designed a battery-powered rickshaw.
The competition requirement was to design and create an energy-efficient human powered three wheeled electric vehicle, advertised through a website. The college faculty formed a team of eight enthusiastic students who created the rickshaw through funds provided by the college.
About 140 colleges participated from all over India out of which 65 were shortlisted. It’s a regular rickshaw which two people could ride together, fitted with paddles with an additional eco-friendly battery run motor that could aid older or fatigued out riders to proceed with ease. The rickshaw that is on display at the college campus is now being modified to run on solar energy.

(Based on Timesofindia.indiatimes.com)

God goes online

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Those who did not have a pandal nearby to celebrate Durga Puja or were reluctant to walk through the crowded streets for ‘darshan’ this year didn’t miss a thing.
They simply went electronic. Website designing companies connected to the CCTV cameras of pandals in Ranchi and Dhanbad the state of Bihar, allowing live broadcast to those who were deprived of the puja experience. From October 21 www.puja.dhanbadonline.com went live allowing devotees glimpses of not one, but about ten pandals in the city. The website also offered interactive competitions such as the best pandal, best lighting, best management, followed by a photography contest on the “festive mood” theme. Voting is open till the end of October and awards will be distributed on November 5. Later, Diwali and Chhath celebrations will also be telecast live through this portal.
In the Steel City of Jamshedpur, it was Apostle Technologies and Kendriya Durga Puja Committee (KDPC) who allowed the same through their website www.jamshedpurpuja.com The portal also offered relevant information on the pujas committees, complete with maps and other details. Other sites beyond Bihar provided “e-anjali” and “e-aarti” where flowers and prayers could be offered online to digital images.

(Based on Timesofindia.indiatimes.com)