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Highlighting that hypertension in many people go undetected and untreated owing to , lack of awareness, Endocrinologist Dr. Bobba Rakesh at Ramesh Hospitals said on the eve of the World Hypertension Day which is observed on May 17 every year. The theme of the day for this year is ‘Measure your blood pressure accurately, control it, live longer, he said, adding that hypertension affects more than 30% of the adult population worldwide and that it is the main modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular ailments and kidney disease, arrhythmia and dementia. “Only 25% of rural and 38% of urban population in India with hypertension are being treated. Hypertension among the young people is becoming common, affecting one in every eight adults aged between 20 and 40. Awareness, treatment and control of high blood pressure among the young adults suffering from hypertension is very low,” said Dr. Rakesh. He further said that an increase in physical activity, low-fat diet, saying away from … [Read more...] about Andhra Pradesh: Lifestyle modifications key to prevent hypertension, says expert

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday said transparency and tax stability were the key guiding principle of Budget 2021-22. Contrary to the expectations of a COVID-19 tax, the government has chosen to fund the budget stimulus through higher borrowing rather than increased taxes, she said while addressing members of industry chamber CII. While the Union Budget 2021-22 provides for enhanced capital expenditure by the government, it also envisages private sector participation in a big way, the finance ministry said in a statement quoting the minister. On the Budget announcement of setting up a Development Finance Institution (DFI), Sitharaman said the government will provide some capital and will also raise funds from the market. In addition, the DFI Bill will provide legislative space for private DFIs. The government proposes to set up a Rs 20,000 crore DFI with a view to mobilise Rs 111 lakh crore required for funding of the ambitious National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP). … [Read more...] about Transparency, Tax Stability Key Guiding Principles of Budget 2021-22, Says Nirmala Sitharaman

Korea first institutionalized a women’s rights body through a special presidential committee in February 1998. A separate ministry for women was set up in January 2001 under the first minister Han Myeong-sook. Enhanced women’s rights were regarded as synonymous with gender equality. After President Kim Dae-jung was elected, the ministry gained more significance as his wife Lee Hee-ho was a women’s rights activist. Two decades since then, young men today complain of reverse discrimination. They argue the law and system came from the patriarchal society of earlier generations. They point to the special quota for females in recruitment by public companies and the conscription for males only. They argue much has become equal between men and women and therefore males should not face extra duties. The glass ceiling still exists for women in their 30s to middle age. The childcare burden still primarily falls in the laps of women after birth. The social environment that hardens women to … [Read more...] about Gender equality is key

A rapper/pianist duo will impress the Britain’s Got Talent judges this weekend despite only meeting in person on the day of their audition. Now the pair, who never intended to become a double-act, look set for stardom thanks to a mistake while microphones were being handed out. Rapper Quacey Goodman, aka Flintz, 22, had previously twice auditioned solo for the ITV show with no success. During lockdown, he connected with pianist Taylor Bennett, 17, via Instagram . Quacey asked Taylor to put a melody behind his rap but they met in real life only on the day of the audition as Quacey lives in Croydon, South London, and Taylor lives in Great Barr, Birmingham. They had rehearsed in person only once when producers accidentally offered them both microphones before ushering them on to the stage. The pair met in person on the day of their audition ( Image: ITV) Both boys impressed so much during their chat to Simon Cowell and the other judges that duo Flintz & … [Read more...] about Britain’s Got Talent duo given microphones by mistake at audition set for stardom

Seeking to further improve the ease of doing business, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday said NRIs will be allowed to set up one person companies, definition of small companies will be revised and various provisions of the Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) Act will be decriminalised. The proposed relaxations to rules governing One Person Companies (OPCs) are expected to benefit startups and innovators. Dedicating a separate portion of her 2021-22 Budget speech to company matters, Sitharaman said in the next fiscal year, MCA 21 portal will be driven by data analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning features as well as have additional modules such as for e-adjudication and compliance management. MCA 21 portal is used for submitting various documents as part of compliance requirements under the companies law. Sitharaman, who is also in charge of the corporate affairs ministry, said the decriminalising of the procedural and technical compoundable offences … [Read more...] about Budget 2021: NRIs Will Be Allowed to Set up One-Person Companies Soon

Online furniture retailer Made.com has seen shares plunge after warning it is set to slump to a full-year underlying loss due to tumbling sales and supply chain woes. The group’s shares slumped by more than a fifth at one stage as it slashed its sales outlook and said trading would remain “highly challenging” this year. Made.com – which floated on the stock market last June – forecast full-year gross sales would fall by up to 15%, while ongoing supply chain disruption is also hitting its bottom line. It said it expects to post an annual underlying loss of between £15 million and £35 million, dragged lower also by a £5 million cost of supply chain issues. Recommended Coleen Rooney to resume evidence in Rebekah Vardy court battle - live ‘Putin likely to have lost third of troops in Ukraine’ – follow live The firm had in March forecast underlying earnings of up to £15 million. Made.com said: “Although Made’s performance has remained strong … [Read more...] about Made.com shares slump on warning over losses and sliding sales

Good things seem to happen to Daisy Edgar-Jones while she’s busy doing something else. Her breakout role as Marianne in the popular Hulu miniseries “Normal People" came about while she was on another production. She read the book in between takes and filmed her audition on set. Several years later, she was on that same set when she found out that she had a shot at starring in the big screen adaptation of Delia Owens’ “ Where the Crawdads Sing ” (in theaters July 15). “It was so wild to me that they were thinking of me for it,” Edgar-Jones said last week from London . “I think I was surprised to be in consideration considering the popularity of the book and just how important it was.” “Where the Crawdads Sing" is about a girl named Kya who grows up alone in the marshes of North Carolina after her family abandons her. The story follows Kya from her childhood in the 1950s to adulthood as she navigates romances, ostracization from the townspeople — which only … [Read more...] about Summer Preview: Daisy Edgar-Jones takes on ‘Crawdads’

Those nine legendary dot dot dots, that triple ellipsis typed out by Coleen Rooney before the fateful words “ Rebekah Vardy ’s account” intimate that she’d given this matter quite some consideration. That she’d hovered, finger on the trigger, for a long thrilling moment, before firing what she thought would be the fatal shot. Her Instagram sting operation had been going on for almost five full months by that point. Five full months to wonder where this deadly road might take her. She’d had all the days and nights she could possibly have needed to work through all the angles, to look down the many branches of history that would fork their way forward from that defining second, when she chucked that irretrievable stink bomb in to the players’ wives enclosure of English football’s VIP club. But even she, surely, did not see that she would be setting herself on this precise path. That it would lead to here, the witness box of the Royal Courts of Justice, where she’d be … [Read more...] about Whodunnit? When it comes to Wagatha Christie, we may never know

Supermarkets have increased the price of more than 100 value range products in recent weeks, some by up to 30%, research has found. The website NationalWorld tracked the price of almost 700 basic range groceries from Asda, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Morrisons and Aldi. It found just over 100 had gone up in price between the start of April and the beginning of May. They included tinned vegetables, jam, pasta, coffee, fresh meat and cheese. The price rises are a blow to millions of cost of living hit households . However, higher prices for budget ranges particularly hammer low incomes families. According to a NationalWorld price comparison, Asda increased the prices of 37 out of 158 Smart Price or Farm Stores products between April 4 and May 2 - the highest proportion of any supermarket tracked. Examples included a 300g tin of Asda Smart Price mushy peas, up 16.7%, from 18p to 21p. And Smart Price of rice pudding, up 15%, from 20p to 23p. Asda was also found to have … [Read more...] about Supermarket own-brand foods shoot up in price – list of products rising up to 30%

The YouTube video starts with a popular British children's cartoon character, Peppa Pig , introducing herself and her family, but there are signs of trouble almost immediately. During the ninth second, Peppa's mother opens her mouth and shouts, "Smoke weed!" The video - a doctored version of a real Peppa episode - deteriorates from there. Over five minutes, there are explosions and racial and homophobic slurs, culminating with Peppa and her parents in dark sunglasses smoking marijuana as rapper Snoop Dogg dances nearby. Since it was uploaded in 2015, the altered video, which has no age restrictions, has been viewed more than 1.5 million times. After years of vowing to police inappropriate content, YouTube continues to deliver violent imagery, drug references, sexually-suggestive sequences and foul, racially-charged language in clips that reach children at a troubling pace, say researchers, parents and consumer groups. YouTube's recommendation algorithm, they say, … [Read more...] about Young children can easily see disturbing content on YouTube despite age restrictions