Month: September 2014

New Delhi, Sep 1 (IANS) Indian midfielder Manpreet Singh was named the Junior Men’s Player of the Year by the Asian Hockey Federation (AHF) at its Congress held in Kuala Lumpur Sunday. The 22-year-old has played 103 international matches and captained India in the 2013 Junior World Cup here. The Jalandhar-lad was also part of the silver medal winning team at the 20th Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and represented India at the 2014 World Cup in The Hague. Manpreet works very hard and has proved himself at all age groups and competitions,” Hockey India secretary general Narinder Batra said.

Tokyo, Sep 1 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi Monday sought to attract Japanese investors to India, stating that he knew what kind of coordination is needed between investors and the government for development. “I understand the coordination needed between government and investors,” Modi, speaking in Hindi, said at a luncheon hosted by the Keidanren or the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Japan-India Business Cooperation Committee. Stating that he had worked with Japanese businessmen when he was chief minister of Gujarat, he said: “Japanese people who have worked in Gujarat know better than me about the Gujarat model of development.” “While working in Gujarat, I interacted with the industrial houses and business groups from Japan the most. In the last six or seven years, there has been hardly a week, when a delegation from Japan was not on a visit to Gujarat,” Modi said.

In his latest acerbic statement, the controversial Hindutva leader blamed the Muslim community for the riots that took place in Uttar Pradesh.

New Delhi, Sept. 1 (ANI): Congress Party leader Manish Tewari on Monday asked China not be perturbed about Japan getting cozy with India. “The difficulty is China and the growth of China which ostensibly while being purported to be peaceful, is anything but peaceful, and is troublesome for Asia,” Tewari told ANI here. “So, therefore, if other Asian nations who have a stake in the peace and stability of the region do get together to talk, China should not take umbrage to that,” he added, while referring to a report published in a China daily, which apparently took offence over Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attempting to create a wedge between China and India.

London, Sep 1 (IANS) If you have to choose between tea or coffee, it is probably better to drink tea for its antioxidant benefits. “Coffee and tea are important components of our way of life. We investigated their effects on CV mortality and non-CV mortality in a large French population at low risk of cardiovascular diseases,” said Professor Nicolas Danchin from France at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress 2014 in Barcelona, Spain. The researchers found that coffee drinkers had a higher CV risk profile than non-coffee drinkers.

London, Sep 1 (IANS) If you think moderate wine drinking can protect against cardio-vascular diseases (CVDs), you are probably right: Just mix daily exercise to it. Earlier studies have found that red and white wine increases levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL), the “good” cholesterol. “We found that moderate wine drinking was only protective in people who exercised. Red and white wine produced the same results,” professor Milos Taborsky from the Czech Republic told the gathering at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress 2014 in Barcelona, Spain.

New Delhi, Sept.1 (ANI): Condemning Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s talks regarding the Indo – Japan ties, Congress leader Manish Tewari today said that it is ironical that those people who brought a no confidence motion against the government in 2008 have today discovered the virtues of nuclear power. Tewari told ANI, “It is ironical that those people who brought a no confidence motion against the government in 2008, on the issue of the INDO-US civil co-operation, which demolished 28 years of nuclear apartheid, have today discovered the virtues of nuclear power.” “For six long years they kept opposing the entire nuclear initiative which UPA had taken.

Washington, Sept 1 (ANI): A new research has suggested that obese youngsters have a nearly six fold risk of hypertension. The study conducted from PEP (Prevention Education Program) Family Heart Study presented at ESC Congress showed that compared with normal weight children and adolescents, the risk of prehypertension was significantly higher in youths with an elevated body mass index (BMI) and the risk was 1.6 fold higher in overweight and 2.4 fold higher in obese boys, and 1.8 fold higher in overweight and 3.3 fold higher in obese girls. Professor Peter Schwandt from Germany, said that the prevalence of hypertension and obesity in children and adolescents was continuing to rise in most high and middle-income countries because adiposity is considered a driving force for cardiovascular disease, they examined whether elevated blood pressure was associated with body fat distribution in young people. Schwandt asserted that they found that obese boys had a nearly six fold increased risk of hypertension compared to normal weight boys and in obese girls the risk was more than four times greater than their normal weight counterparts.