Saturday, July 24, 2010

Sex scandal rocks Indian Women's hockey

Sex scandal rocks Indian Women's hockey
































He's the man who inspired the superhit 2007 film Chak de India, starring Shahrukh Khan. MK Kaushik, the coach of the Indian women's hockey team, now stands disgraced after allegations of sexual misconduct by the team members.

Kaushik has, however, denied any wrongdoing and said the charges were a "big-time conspiracy" by players who had failed to find a place in the national team.
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Katrina Kaif roped in a sex scandal

Fake Salman, Katrina sex tape surfaces

Katrina Kaif is furious with her alleged sex scandal. She is very upset about her name getting involved in it. She says it is ridiculous to call the lady her look-a-like because the women is totally different from her.

Says the actress, "The video is disgusting and the girl clearly doesn`t even look like me. There`s no room for any speculation whatsoever. How can you even call her my lookalike? The girl`s face is completely different! I think it`s ridiculous to even talk about it."

The sex video is doing all around the net. The clipping shows Katrina Kaif look-alike having sex with multiple men.

The sex controversy has once roped Katrina’s sister Isabel.

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Top scientist dies after drinking lauki juice

Lauki and Karela juice proved deadly for Sushil Kumar Saxena, Deputy Secretary in Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, who died in Rockland Hospital after vomitting blood. The CSIR official died shortly after following the popular remedy of drinking a glass of juice from lauki or bottle gourd and bitter karela to control diabetes.

Saxena`s wife Neeraj, also a diabetic, was also hospitalized after drinking the lethal juice.

Experts say bitter bottle gourd juice can be lethal. These herbal remedies and vegetable juices can be very poisonous, especially when they taste unusually bitter.

The drink was bitter but the CSIR official ignored this, perhaps thinking the bitterness came from the karela .

Saxena was initially taken to a CGHS dispensary and then to Rockland Hospital, but he was dead by then.

" No doctor told us to have vegetable juice. We were inspired by Baba Ramdev`s suggestions and his programmes on the television. I will never ever listen to his suggestions again," said Neeraj, a resident of Nanakpura.

Bottle gourd, cucumber, squash, pumpkin and melon can turn lethal if they taste bitter as they have Tetracyclic Triterpenoid Cucurbitacins compound which is highly toxic. The compound is responsible for bitterness in vegetables.

Doctors say that vegetables like bottle gourd, cucumber, squash, pumpkin and melon are considered one of the healthiest vegetables but they can turn lethal, if bitter. In botanical terms these belong to the cucurbitaceae family. Cucurbitacins are complex compounds found in plants belonging to the cucumber family.

The incident took place on June 23 and the medical report on the CSIR official`s death - revealing bottle gourd poisoning as the cause of death - was finalised this week.

"Saxena was brought dead to us while Neeraj was in a bad condition. It was a case of bottle gourd poisoning. An endoscopy revealed that his stomach was profusely bleeding. The deceased had consumed 250 ml of the juice while his wife had consumed 150ml of the same juice," said Dr Sharma of RocklandHospital.

The diabetic couple started taking their daily dose of `lauki` juice some four years ago, inspired by prescriptions doled out by a yoga guru on television. They would prepare a concoction of juice from lauki and karela with black salt. It was a daily routine.

Things went horribly wrong on June 23. The drink was unusually bitter. Paying no attention to this, both drank the freshly-extracted juice. Soon after, they took ill.

Botanists say that higher levels of chemicals cucurbitacins are triggered by wide temperature swings, high temperature, too little water and low soil fertility.

Improper storage of vegetables are also one of the reasons of forming such compounds.

These toxins, Dr Sharma said, cause swelling in the liver, pancreas, gall bladder and kidney when absorbed into the blood.

" This in turn can lead to multiorgan dysfunction which can be fatal in some cases," he said.

Research by the Departments of Medicine and Department of Anaesthesiology of the Himalayan Institute of Medical sciences at Dehradun assessed the effects of bitter bottlegourd.

" Drinking one or two glasses of fresh bottle gourd juice in the morning on an empty stomach is one such practice particularly in India. However, sometimes, such practice can become dangerous and life threatening," theresearch said.

The research also said that severe toxicity occurs accidentally in patients who regularly consume large quantities of fresh bottle gourd juice as a health drink on the advice of naturopaths or ayurveda doctors.

A few years ago, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences ( AIIMS) in association with AYUSH conducted a research on plants and vegetables that are reported to have cure a for diabetes.

"There weren`t any great minimising effects of these plants like gourd, neem and jamun even though some of them are known to bring down sugar levels. In fact, a few of these plants had no effect at all in controlling diabetes," said Dr Anoop Mishra, the principal investigator of the research.

Dr Mishra is also chairman, National Diabetes, Obesity, Cholesterol Foundation and director, and head of the Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, FortisHospital. " The patients should not follow these things as mainstream treatment of diabetes," he said.

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Pakistan is now the land of porn

Pakistan is now the land of porn

Here’s something sleazier and horny for the mobs in Pakistan to become the top dogs in porn search. Pakistan has notched up a rather unenviable first place, for porn searches per person across the world, according to Google search trends.

According to a Fox News report, Pakistan is "top dog in searches for `horse sex`, since 2004, `donkey sex` since 2007, `rape pictures` and `rape sex` since 2004, `child sex` between 2004 and 2007 and since 2009, `animal sex` since 2004 and `dog sex` since 2005".

Islamic scholar and writer Feroz Ahmed Bakhat said, “ I am shocked that the Pakistani society is so degenerated that they got such a dubious distinction. The leadership of Pakistan must wake up. It is high time.”

The country also tops or has topped in searches under the categories of sex, camel sex, rape video, child sex video and some other unprintable. The Pakistani embassy did not reply to a request for an interview, the report said.

So far, Pakistan has banned 17 websites for offensive or blasphemous material and is monitoring seven others (including Google, Yahoo, YouTube and Amazon). In addition to banning content on 17 websites, including islamexposed.blogspot.com, Pakistan is monitoring seven other sites -- Google, Yahoo, Bing, YouTube, Amazon, MSN and Hotmail - for anti-Islamic content.

The country`s punishment for those charged with blasphemy is execution, but the question remains what - if anything -- can be done about people who search for porn on the web. For now all we can say is meet the all new Pornistan.


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Housewives are not beggars: SC tells govt

SC slams govt for equating housewives with beggars and prostitutes

The Supreme Court has slammed the Government for clubbing housewives with prostitutes, beggars and prisoners in the Census and describing them as economically non-productive workers. SC has said that housewives are employees and their ‘gratuitous’ services to their husbands and children can not be taken for granted.

Slamming the government’s “insensitive approach”, the court said Parliament should revisit the Motor Vehicles Act and matrimonial laws to remove the existing “gender bias”, sources said.

"This bias is shockingly prevalent in the work of Census. In the Census of 2001 it appears that those who are doing household duties like cooking, cleaning of utensils, looking after children, fetching water, collecting firewood have been categorized as non-workers and equated with beggars, prostitutes and prisoners who, according to Census, are not engaged in economically productive work.”

"As a result of such categorization about 36 crores (367 million) women in India have been classified in the Census of India, 2001 as non-workers and placed in the category of beggars, prostitutes and prisoners," the apex court observed.

"A wife/mother does not work by the clock. She is in constant attendance of the family throughout the day and night unless she is employed and is required to attend the employer`s work for particular hours. She takes care of all the requirements of husband and children including cooking of food, washing of clothes, etc. She teaches small children and provides invaluable guidance to them for their future life,"the apex court said.

A bench of justices GS Singhvi and AK Ganguly reversed an Allahabad High Court verdict that awarded Rs 2.5 lakh to the family of a woman killed in a road accident because the victim was just a housewife.

The court had considered the victim’s monthly income as Rs 1,250 and put her in the category of non-workers. SC increased the compensation to Rs 6 lakh and asked the insurance company to pay Rs 50,000 to the family.

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Music helps kids improve learning

If your child is a music lover then be sure that he is a good learner. A new research has claimed that learning to play musical instruments has positive effects on the brain and it helps children improve their learning and understanding of language.
The research says that during the process of musical training there develops a connection the brain cells which helps in other form of communication, such as speech, reading and understanding a foreign language. It helps the students to increase their concentration power and enjoy their studies.
The researchers, at the Northwestern University (NU) in Illinois said that "The effect of music training suggests that, akin to physical exercise and its impact on body fitness, music is a resource that tones the brain for auditory fitness.”
Musicians also have larger brain volumes in areas important for playing a musical instrument, including motor and auditory regions, the researchers said.
They found that these advantages of music training appear to cross over to our understanding of speech.
Music and speech have quite a bit in common. They both use pitch and timing to get information across, and both require memory and attention skills to process, they said.
Some studies showed that children with musical training have more neural activity in response to changes in pitch during speech than those without such training.

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Five essential tips to cure your headache

Headaches, especially if they come regularly to visit your head, are definitely maddening. You're barely able to do anything. You only wish to lie in your bed, close your eyes and ears.

Here are some easy tips to get rid of the irritating headache:

Try Grandma's Remedies

You can try cold compress or a nap or sweet home baked cookies. They are all even very comforting.

Or, just take your index finger and your thumb and squeeze the bridge of your nose while pressing down a little bit. Or, try to massage your temples.

Try Herbs

Most of the herbs to help you get rid of headaches are quite safe to use. They are a natural and non-narcotic form of treatment.

If you're allergic-free, you can try several kinds of herbs that can help curing headache. Boil them, not only to make them free of chemical, but also to make them taste better. It's just like tea!

Try Exercising and Hot Bathing

Exercise can get your circulation goes well again. You can try to walk or jog, for example. The fresh air will even ease the headache healing process.

Afterwards, get a hot bath. The hot water helps to release the contracted muscles that cause the headaches in the first place, and generally lets the whole body relax.

Add some candles with aromatherapy in your bathroom, it will add the comfort.

Try Natural Cure

Aromatherapy methods will be a great help. They offer the benefit of aromas like lavender which is known to possess relaxation qualities with in.

Or, try acupuncture. This will help a lot especially if the cause of the headache is nervous tension.

Try Meditation

Meditation and concentration for each movement will eventually give you a youthful glow. They will also help you keep stress levels low which will in turn keep yourheadaches away.

There are many types of meditation that you can try. But, my favorite is listening to running water. I don't always have to go to the lake, beach or waterfall to listen to it. I simply buy a nature sound tape.

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