Winter’s cardiovascular challenge: Embracing adaptation to shield your heart

This article discusses the complex relationship between cardiovascular health and the winter season, highlighting the impact of air pollution and temperature on heart health. Cold air traps pollutants, leading to increased inhalation rates during winter. The cold weather also causes thermoregulatory vasoconstriction, increasing blood pressure. Prolonged cold exposure can result in irreversible cold-induced hypertension.

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Leaking ship gets a new captain

Leaking ship gets a new captain

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Hit by train, jumbo dies in Uttarakhand

A male elephant and a calf were hit by a speeding train when the pachyderms were trying to cross a railway track and move towards the Gaula range of the Terai eastern forest division. While the male jumbo, around 20 years old, died, the calf, roughly eight years old, sustained critical injuries. The incident...

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PM Modi: Kashi corridor marks civilisational resurrection

Joining celebrations on the second anniversary of the launch of the Shri Kashi Vishwanath Corridor, PM Narendra Modi on Thursday said the significance of Kashi’s development went beyond brick-and-mortar structures, and represented the “resurrection of India’s civilisational glory”. The PM’s “civilisational resurrection” remark was seen in the light of historic anecdotes about the destruction...

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Opposition to keep targeting Amit Shah, session staring at washout

Opposition continues protests in Parliament demanding home minister Amit Shah’s statement on security breach in LS; strict action against BJP MP Pratap Simha who provided passes to intruders; prospect of prolonged blockade in short winter session; government accused of deliberately stoking situation to pass legislation without discussion; opposition debates whether to allow bills on...

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7-day police custody for four Parliament security breach accused

A Delhi court granted seven days of police custody for the four suspects in connection with the Parliament security breach. The charges against them include provocation to cause a riot, criminal conspiracy, trespass, obstructing public servants, assault to deter public servants from their duty, and sections related to terrorist acts and conspiracy. A pamphlet...

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Woman shot in head inside thana dies in hospital, SI on run

A 55-year-old woman from Aligarh, UP, who was shot by a police sub-inspector during passport verification, died in the hospital. The victim, Ishrat Nigar, was critically injured and being treated at Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College. The SI, Manoj Sharma, is still absconding and a reward of Rs 20,000 has been announced for his arrest....

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ICICI Pru Life signs up Ujjivan SFB for bancassurance

ICICI Pru Life signs up Ujjivan SFB for bancassurance

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Bihar village guard who resisted liquor smugglers killed

A village guard was murdered in Bihar’s Khagaria district late Wednesday night, with police suspecting liquor smugglers whose illicit trade the deceased had resisted in the dry state, report Kshitiz & NP Thakur. The body of Ghanshyam Malakar,58, with injury marks was found in a garbage pit near Tilathi village in the Beldaur police...

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