Most of the students have been discharged, while around 20 remain hospitalised for food poisoning.

Nearly 80 students of the Veterinary Science Diploma College in Tiptur taluk of Tumkur district, fell sick after eating breakfast served at the college mess. On Sunday morning, students had gone to the mess for breakfast, where idli, sambar and chutney were served to them. At around 11am, several of the students began experiencing severe abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting.

They were subsequently taken to the government hospital in Tiptur and diagnosed with food poisoning and were treated. Most were treated on an outpatient basis and sent home, while a few have been admitted and are undergoing treatment at present.

“Around 80 students in the hostel had eaten breakfast in the mess. They’d had some idli, sambar, and chutney. Within an hour they all presented with stomach pain, nausea, and vomiting,” said Dr Chandrika, Tumkur District Health Officer (DHO), speaking to media. “Most were given supportive treatment and were discharged yesterday itself, however around 20 to 23 students are still in the in-patient wards, getting treatment for the same.”

Food samples were sent to a lab for testing, it has yet to be determined what caused so many students to fall ill at once. The students have alleged that the warden of the hostel, Rudraswamy, would not visit the premises or ensure that hygiene was maintained in the mess. It was reported that the warden was out of town during the time of this incident as well.

In a similar incident last month in Telangana, around 40 girls from a hostel in Suryapet area came down with food poisoning after eating dinner at their hostel mess. Doctors began treating them immediately and all of them recovered subsequently. Following this, district health officials conducted medical camps to spread awareness about food poisoning.

New Delhi, (IANS) A new municipal report suggests that dengue cases have increased in the months of November and December this year compared to 2017.

According to the weekly report by the MCD released on Monday, 1,062 dengue cases were recorded in November 2018 while it was 816 in 2017. Even in December 2017, only 81 cases were reported in the national capital while this year 117 cases have already been reported till December 15. Forty-two fresh cases have been registered in the past one week.

So far, four deaths caused by dengue have been confirmed in Delhi which includes a 13-year-old girl from Wazirabad area. The other three cases are reported to be from west and north Delhi.

However, as per the report, 2,774 people have been diagnosed with the vector-borne disease in Delhi so far in 2018. However, the number is less than what it was in 2017 — 4,704.

In 2015, Delhi saw its worst dengue outbreak with more than 11,800 cases and 60 deaths, according to the city’s civic bodies.

As for malaria, only one new case surfaced last week taking the toll to two till now for the month. In November, 33 malaria cases were reported in the city, according to the municipal report. So far, 473 malaria cases have come to light, while in 2017 it was 575.

No new cases of chikungunya were reported this week keeping the total number of cases at 3 in the national capital while in November, there were 28 cases. Till date, a total of 164 chikungunya cases have been reported in the city compared to 551 in 2017.

Chandigarh, (IANS) Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Monday underwent a minor surgery to remove a stone from his kidney.

The surgery was successful and the Chief Minister is likely to be discharged from the hospital on Tuesday, his spokesperson said here on Monday.

Doctors at the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) where the surgery was performed said the stone had been troubling Amarinder Singh for some time and it was decided to remove it as early as possible. 

“A simple procedure, lasting about 40 minutes, was conducted on him this morning by a team of doctors,” the spokesperson said.

“It was a minor procedure and the Chief Minister would be fit to be back at his normal functioning within a couple of days,” a doctor added.

The spokesperson said that the Chief Minister was recovering well and was expected to resume work in a day or two.

Amarinder Singh was admitted to the hospital on Sunday.

He was admitted to the PGIMER earlier on November 28 after he developed fever. He was kept in the hospital for the night and was discharged after completion of medical tests.

Amarinder Singh became Chief Minister of Punjab in March 2017, leading the Congress party to a thumping majority in the Assembly elections. Earlier, he was Chief Minister from 2002 to 2007. 

Matty Healy, frontman of the Brit Award-winning band The 1975, has been vocal about his drug addiction, but he doesn’t find it “particularly brave” to talk about it in the band’s new song or other platforms.

“Give yourself a try” from the band’s latest album “A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships” has a line — “And you’ll make a lot of money, and it’s funny ’cause you’ll move somewhere sunny and get addicted to drugs”. Healy has also spoken about his addiction to drugs in past interviews.

A lot of celebrities feel uncomfortable talking about drugs, so what made him take this brave step?

“I don’t think it is particularly brave… telling the truth is kind of the only option. That’s why I represent it in my art and the way I speak and the way I am with people,” Healy told IANS in a telephonic interview.

“It is important for me to be upfront. People can deal with anything as long as it is true. When you mess around with somebody, that’s when you lose people,” the 29-year-old added.

The songs of the Grammy-nominated group have also touched upon topics like sex, love and even US President Donald Trump.

“It’s just me trying to understand the world and that’s what everybody is trying to do; so I think that’s why people understand the record,” shared the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist, who once said “F*** Donald Trump” during a performance.

Like their previous two albums — “The 1975” (2013) and “I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It” (2016) — “A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships” has also secured UK No. 1 album spot.

Was there any kind of pressure on the band, which also consists of lead guitarist Adam Hann, bassist Ross MacDonald and drummer George Daniel, due to their past success?

“There was probably… initial fear of not being as good as we were, but when we started making the record, we did it just for fun. If it stopped being fun, then we would move on to something else,” said Healy.

He is currently promoting their third album, but the announcement for their fourth one has already been done. Isn’t it little taxing to move on to another album so quickly?

“No. That’s the safest option for us. I love making music. If we aren’t making music in between, (we are) trying to tell everybody about ‘A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships’… we have the opportunity to party, get loose and lazy. It’s much better (to make music),” he said.

Asked about their fourth album, he shared: “I don’t know. I care about my music, but I don’t care if the record lives up to people’s expectations or if they think it’s going to be like a continuation from ‘A Brief Inquiry…’. I am really not interested in people’s preconceptions.”

Next year, they will also perform in Asia, but the list doesn’t include India.

“We haven’t been to India or Pakistan. We will definitely come to India. The fact that we have not been (to India)… is a bit crazy. I am sure we will play there,” he said.

And it seems like there is a lot of time as he has no plans of parting ways with bandmates anytime soon.

“We have been together for 17 years already. I don’t think we are going anywhere. I can’t imagine that we will ever really split up,” he said.

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PUBG has emerged as one of the most popular games in India but some young gamers have taken their obsession too far. 

Ever since the multiplayer game released on smartphones, PUBG (PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds) has become a rage in the gaming community. There’s a cafe themed around the viral game in Jaipur. Even the members of the Indian cricket team are hooked on to it.

On Tuesday, Google released its annual list of Android’s best applications and games of 2018 and PUBG Mobile took home the award in the ‘Best game’, ‘Most Competitive Title’ and ‘Fan Favorite’ categories. With PUBG Mobile reaching 100 million downloads in September, it comes as no surprise that kids and adults are hooked onto the game for hours.

Such is the craze around the game that some schools in Bengaluru have begun to warn parents about the ill-effects of playing the game for hours at a stretch after cases of addiction were reported to the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, media reports. 

According to the report, the Associated Managements of Primary and Secondary Private Schools Karnataka (KAMS) will also issue advisory to parents to keep a tab on the hours spent by their kids on the multiplayer game. 

“We will ask our member schools to write to parents about this. We have, in the past, had discussions with the education department on imposing restricts on the number of hours a child spends playing such games,” KAMS was quoted by media. 

The news comes only days after reports of kids addicted to another massively popular game, Fornite, came to light, and who are opting for videogame-rehab to stay off the game. 

PUBG is developed by Tencent Holdings Ltd. and is available in the free-to-play variant. The game was released back in March 2018. 

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A woman in Brazil who received a womb transplanted from a dead donor has given birth to a healthy baby girl in the first successful case of its kind, doctors reported.

The breakthrough operation, carried out in September 2016, shows that such transplants are feasible and could help thousands of women unable to have children due to uterine problems, according to a study published on Wednesday in The Lancet medical journal.

The case involved connecting veins from the donor uterus with the then-32-year-old’s recipient’s veins, as well as linking arteries, ligaments and vaginal canals.

It comes after 10 previously known cases of uterus transplants from deceased donors – in the United States, the Czech Republic and Turkey – failed to produce a live birth.

The girl born in the Brazilian case was delivered via caesarean section at 35 weeks and three days, and weighed 2,550 grams, the case study said.

Dani Ejzenberg, a doctor at Brazil’s Sao Paulo University hospital who led the research, said the transplant shows the technique is feasible and could offer women with uterine infertility access to a larger pool of potential donors.

The current norm for receiving a womb transplant is that the organ would come from a live family member willing to donate it.

“The numbers of people willing and committed to donate organs upon their own deaths are far larger than those of live donors, offering a much wider potential donor population,” Ejzenberg said in a statement about the results, describing the procedure as a “medical milestone”.

She added, however, that the outcomes and effects of womb donations from live and deceased donors have yet to be compared, and said the technique could still be refined and optimised.

‘Extremely exciting’

The first baby born after a live donor womb transplant was in Sweden in 2013. Scientists have so far reported a total of 39 procedures of this kind, resulting in 11 live births.

Experts estimate that infertility affects around 10 to 15 percent of couples of reproductive age worldwide. Of this group, around two in 1,000 women have uterine problems.

Before uterus transplants became possible, the only options to have a child were adoption or surrogacy.In the Brazilian case, the recipient had been born without a uterus due to a condition called Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome. The donor was 45 and died of a stroke.

Five months after the transplant, Ejzenberg’s team wrote, the uterus showed no signs of rejection, ultrasound scans were normal, and the recipient was having regular menstruation. The woman’s previously fertilised and frozen eggs were implanted after seven months and 10 days later she was confirmed pregnant.

At seven months and 20 days – when the case study report was submitted to The Lancet – the baby girl was continuing to breastfeed and weighed 7.2kg.

“We must congratulate the authors,” commented Srdjan Saso, an honorary clinical lecturer in obstetrics and gynaecology at Imperial College London, describing the findings as “extremely exciting”.

Richard Kennedy, president of the International Federation of Fertility Societies, also welcomed the announcement but sounded a note of caution.

“Uterine transplant is a novel technique and should be regarded as experimental,” he said.

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday imposed a cost of Rs 1 lakh each on Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Odisha and Jammu and Kashmir for not furnishing details on the mid-day meal scheme in their states.

A bench of Justice Madan B. Lokur, Justice Deepak Gupta and Justice Hemant Gupta also imposed the cost of Rs 2 lakh on the Delhi government for not furnishing the information on mid-day meal scheme.

The court said the fines would be deposited with the Supreme Court Legal Services Committee within four weeks for juvenile justice issues.

The order followed a PIL by Antarrashtriya Manav Adhikaar Nirgraani Parishad drawing the court’s attention to malpractices in the implementation of the scheme.

Noting that the Mid Day Meal Scheme was of considerable benefit to the children, the court in its order said: “We have been trying to get the states to render assistance and to upload all the data so that necessary corrective steps can be taken from time to time. In spite of several of our orders, there has been little or no co-operation from some of the states.”

Saying that the scheme was not being taken “seriously by several States”, the court said: “Data has not been supplied and there are allegations made by the petitioner about foodgrains disappearing and not reaching the schools.”

Imposing the fine, the court said that Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya and Odisha had said that they will comply with the requirements of the Mid Day Meal Scheme and provide necessary links giving the details of the implementation of the scheme to the satisfaction of the petitioner.

However, the court said, “more than a month has gone by and there has been absolutely no progress made by these states”.

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  For the first time, Bangalore will experience an exclusive Akshar Yoga Wheel launched today by Grand Master Akshar (Mahayogi Akshar Nath) at High, Rooftop of World Trade Centre, Malleshwaram, Bangalore. More than 150 plus yoga practitioners participated in the workshop.

Light, portable and easy-to-use, the Akshar Yoga Wheel readily joins you at home,work or even while travelling. The preliminary groundwork for the Wheel’s manufacturing involved rigorous research for over 2 years and consultation ofseveral experts from the field of medicine and physiotherapy. This along with a whole lot of love has been invested into the Akshar Yoga Wheel that proudly wears the ‘Made in India’ badge and is ISO certified.

Most importantly, the Akshar Yoga Wheel reverses the ill-effects of long hours of desk-work which causes the shoulders to hunch forward leading to bad posture. The Wheel is available in White, Black, Chrome, Silver and Gold. The Silver and Gold Wheel amplify the effects of the ongoing healing process.

Legendary cricketers Mathew Hayden and Sunil Gavaskar, India’s Dangal queen and champion wrestler Babita Phoga, Sandalwood Star Punith Rajkumar  are amongst those who have practised in Akshar yoga.  In this workshop Grand Master Akshar announced that coming 21st of June 2019 of International Yoga Day celebration will be held at Mount Everest base camp by Akshar Yoga along with 300 participants from all over the world.

About Grand Master Akshar (MahayogiAksharNath): Hailing from the original source and school of Yoga –The Himalayas, Grand Master Akshar is an internationally acclaimed yogic master and visionary. He is Founder, Chairman & Course Director of Akshar Yoga, a well-known brand and leading Yoga chain with 20 centres in the city. Over the last decade, 3000 yoga teachers and more than 500,000 practitioners from around the world have been trained by him.

 

3nd December, 2018: For the first time, Bangalore will experience an exclusive Akshar Yoga Wheel launched today by Grand Master Akshar (Mahayogi Akshar Nath) at High, Rooftop of World Trade Centre, Malleshwaram, Bangalore. More than 150 plus yoga practitioners participated in the workshop.

 

Light, portable and easy-to-use, the Akshar Yoga Wheel readily joins you at home,work or even while travelling. The preliminary groundwork for the Wheel’s manufacturing involved rigorous research for over 2 years and consultation ofseveral experts from the field of medicine and physiotherapy. This along with a whole lot of love has been invested into the Akshar Yoga Wheel that proudly wears the ‘Made in India’ badge and is ISO certified.

Most importantly, the Akshar Yoga Wheel reverses the ill-effects of long hours of desk-work which causes the shoulders to hunch forward leading to bad posture. The Wheel is available in White, Black, Chrome, Silver and Gold. The Silver and Gold Wheel amplify the effects of the ongoing healing process.

 

Legendary cricketers Mathew Hayden and Sunil Gavaskar, India’s Dangal queen and champion wrestler Babita Phoga, Sandalwood Star Punith Rajkumar  are amongst those who have practised in Akshar yoga.  In this workshop Grand Master Akshar announced that coming 21st of June 2019 of International Yoga Day celebration will be held at Mount Everest base camp by Akshar Yoga along with 300 participants from all over the world.

 

About Grand Master Akshar (MahayogiAksharNath): Hailing from the original source and school of Yoga –The Himalayas, Grand Master Akshar is an internationally acclaimed yogic master and visionary. He is Founder, Chairman & Course Director of Akshar Yoga, a well-known brand and leading Yoga chain with 20 centres in the city. Over the last decade, 3000 yoga teachers and more than 500,000 practitioners from around the world have been trained by him.

 Young men who are chain smokers or suffer from hypertension could be at an increased risk of heart attack recurrence, researchers have warned.

The study found that risk factors such as smoking, high blood pressure, family history of heart disease and chronic kidney disease were more prevalent among the patients who experienced a relapse.

“When treating younger patients with a history of heart attack, clinicians should emphasise better control of high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes,” said Joanne Karen Recacho-Turingan, a cardiology student from The Medical City in Manila, Philippines.

“Other modifiable risk factors to highlight in patient history and address with these patients include smoking habits and obesity,” Recacho-Turingan added.

The findings were presented at the Asia Conference 2018 in Shanghai.

For the study, researchers analysed 133 young patients and found that males (90.1 per cent) with an average age of 40.9 years, experienced a second heart attack compared to females (9.9 per cent) with an average age of 39.6 years.

In addition, in these male patients, chest pain was the most common presenting symptom (81.8 per cent) while 90.9 per cent had unstable vital signs.

Heart attack in young patients can cause disability and even death at the prime of life. There are often serious consequences for these patients, their families and the health system, which can lead to an increased economic burden, according to the study.

“We must make sure to work with these patients on their modifiable risk factors to reduce their risk not just for a second heart attack, but hopefully, even preventing the first,” Recacho-Turingan noted.

Previous studies have defined young heart attack patients as less than 45-years-old while some used a less than 40-year-old cut-off.

Firecrackers left at least 50 people injured during Diwali celebrations in Hyderabad and outskirts, an official said on Thursday.

The injured were brought to government-run Sarojini Devi Eye Hospital late Wednesday night and in the early hours of Thursday.

According to doctors, at least eight of them sustained critical injuries in their eyes. The remaining had minor injuries and they were sent home after treatment.

The injured include people belonging to all age groups. A doctor said they included those bursting the crackers and the passersby. A 65-year-old woman travelling in an auto-rickshaw sustained critical injury when a ‘rocket’ hit her.

In neighbouring Andhra Pradesh, a fire caused by firecrackers gutted four houses. The incident occurred in Vijayanagaram district. There was no loss of life.

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