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Sunlight may help lower blood pressure Exposing skin to sunlight may help lower blood pressure and cut the risk of heart attack and stroke, a new study has found. Research carried out at the Universities of Southampton and Edinburgh found that sunlight a lters levels of the small messenger molecule, nitric oxide (NO) in the skin and blood, reducing blood pressure . "NO along with its breakdown products, known to be abundant in skin, is involved in the regulation of blood pressure," said Martin Feelisch, Professor of Experimental Medicine and Integrative Biology at the University of Southampton. "When exposed to sunlight , small amounts of NO are transferred from the skin to the circulation, lowering blood vessel tone; as blood pressure drops, so does the risk of heart attack and stroke," Feelisch said. While limiting sunlight exposure is important to prevent skin cancer, the authors of the study, including Dr Richard Weller of the Universi...

India on Friday successfully launched its second navigational satellite IRNSS 1B onboard PSLV-C24 from this spaceport. Indian Space Research Organisation's workhorse Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C24 placed the IRNSS IB in precise orbit about 19 minutes after a perfect lift-off at 5.14 pm from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. "PSLV, in its 25th successive successful flight, injected IRNSS-1B very precisely. I thank the entire ISRO team that made this major milestone for the country, thus proving again that India's PSLV has a place of pride," a beaming ISRO Chairman K Radhakrishnan announced. The 1,432 kg satellite would form part of the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS), an equivalent to Global Positioning System of the US. The IRNSS 1B is the second of the seven navigational satellite planned by India under the Rs 1,420 crore IRNSS programme.

Indian-origin student wins selling bee after epic 95 rounds A 13-year old Indian-origin boy has emerged as the winner of a spelling bee contest in the US in an epic verbal duel that lasted a total of 95 rounds, after judges ran out of words in a previous marathon round held last month. Kush Sharma, a seventh-grader at Frontier School of Innovation spelled out "definition" to clinch the Jackson County Spelling Bee title in Missouri, and a berth in the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington in May. Saturday's 29-round competition was lengthy in comparison to other spelling bees which typically run for about 20 rounds. Sharma won the title in two installments after the judges ran out of words in a previous round held on 22nd February. Sharma beat fifth-grader Sophia Hoffman, 11, of Highland Park Elementary to win Missouri county's annualbee contest on Saturday, before a packed Kansas City Public Library. Hoffman missed out after she mi...

The Online Voter Registration for 2014 elections  open up from 21st January. The link to the website is http://eci.nic.in/eci/eci.html. For first time voters you need to fill the Form 6 which is available online. You can fill the form and upload your documents while submitting your application online itself. Here are some guidelines for filling up the Application Form 6. General Instructions Who can file Form-6 1. First time applicant on attaining age of 18years or more on the first day of January of the year with reference to which the electoral roll is being revised. 2. Person shifting his / her place of ordinary residence outside the constituency in which he / she is already registered. When Form-6 can be filed 1. The application can be filed after draft publication of electoral roll of the constituency. The application is to be filed within the specific days provided for the purpose. Due publicity is given about the above period when the revisi...

Do you want to Recharge your Life?  There is one way out ! An Inspiration in the morning to work till the evening. We always, specially ladies want to look and stay beautiful forever and the beauty always comes from head to toe, what I mean actually is the first the type and colour of hair, you possess. Hair resembles every thing, you might have heard or, seen the fiction that a queen or, a lady wants to young forever and when one day, she observes that her hair is getting white and she feels so bad about it and the narrator of the story brings out the exclusive poem for us, to know that actual fact. But in this century, What I mean actually is that in context of hair, hair is the only and primary thing on which you rely and depend for your real beauty. If you want to observe the Importance of Hair, go and ask and Bald person, who has clean and clear pitch over his head. so, all the above para example suggest that Hair and not only a horse hair for cleaning the shoe,...

Central Board of Secondary Education  (CBSE) introducing a open text based assessment system from next academic session.  A open text based assessment(OTBA) will be for the students of class-XI from the next academic session 2014. Under this, papers of Biology, Economics and Geography will be regarded, students will got a study materials and based on which questions will be asked in the examinations.

  Top 20 in the world's first dedicated ranking of universities Five Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are in the top 20 in the world's first dedicated ranking of universities in the BRICS ( Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa ) group of countries. China's universities dominated the table with 40 universities featured in the top 100, 22 in the top 50 and 4 in the top 5 with Tsinghua University being ranked the best university. According to the "QS University rankings : BRICS" to be announced to Tuesday, Russia has 19 of its universities in the top 100, Brazil 17, India 16 and South Africa 8 in the list.