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Ill-effects of sedentary lifestyle on cardiovascular system
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sep 29 (ANI): Cardiovascular disease is expected to cause 25 million deaths in the entire world in 2020. In India, cardiovascular disorders are the cause of 25 per cent deaths.
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Chhattisgarh Govt. increases minimum wages of workers
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Raipur (Chhattisgarh) [India], September 27 (ANI): The Chhattisgarh Government has announced the rates of variable Dearness Allowances (DA) on the minimum basic salary for workers, working in various scheduled plans.
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Is sitting 'the new smoking'? Not really
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Sep 24 (ANI): Sitting has been described as 'the new smoking,' but according to a recent study, it's the obesity that really leads to problems.
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Ibrahim brothers extradited from Dubai over alleged drug and tobacco impor
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Sydney [Australia], September 18 (ANI): Two brothers of 'Kings Cross' nightclub owner John Ibrahim have been extradited from Dubai following their arrests nearly six weeks ago.
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WPI inflation records four month high with 3.24pct
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept 14 (ANI): The Wholesale Price Index (WPI) for the month of August, 2017 rose by 0.8 percent, to 114.8 (provisional) from 113.9 (provisional) for the previous month, marking its four month high.
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Beedi Making - Livelihood at the cost of one's health
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Patna (Bihar) [India], Sep 14 (ANI): The elder son was sitting beside her and the younger son was in her lap, she bowed her head and was constantly rolling the tendu leaves filled with tobacco to make the poor man's cigarette called "beedi".
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UP Police suspends `drunk` Etah cops for asking prisoner to buy tobacco
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Etah (Uttar Pradesh) [India], July 29 (ANI): Two Etah policemen, who were caught on camera, asking a prisoner to buy them cigarettes and tobaaco, have been suspended by the Uttar Pradesh Police on Saturday.
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Bizarre: 'Drunk' Etah cop asks prisoner to buy tobacco
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Etah (Uttar Pradesh) [India], July 29 (ANI): In a bizarre yet hysterical video making rounds on the internet, an intoxicated cop from Etah can be seen walking up to a rickety roadside kiosk and buying tobacco with a prisoner in handcuffs right along with him!
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'Less toxic' tobacco comes closer to reality
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jul 4 (ANI): A new genetic road map of tobacco has been used to successfully identify and clone two mutated genes associated with how efficiently the plants used nitrogen - a discovery that could one day help reduce the need for nitrogen-based fertilisers in growing cr
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Smokeless tobacco is 95 percent safer than smoking: Study
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 17 (ANI): Here's another reason for you to quit smoking, as a study has warned that snus - a type of moist powdered tobacco, typically held in the mouth between the lips and gums- is 95 percent safer than smoking.
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Kaspersky Lab's latest parental control report shows how different ch
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 5 (ANI): Kaspersky Lab has issued its latest report about detections on computers used by children. Analysis shows that, on average, children around the world now communicate, play and access adult content via computers less than they did a year ago, but open websites
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Chewable tobacco easily available in spite of SC ban, says survey
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 1 (ANI): In lieu of World Tobacco Day being observed on Wednesday, citizen engagement platform LocalCircles' set of surveys revealed that out of the 10,143 responses, 86 percent said chewable tobacco is easily available, in spite of a ban being imposed on it by t
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