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Former Minister G.T. Deve Gowda on Thursday emphasised the need for promoting organic farming.Speaking to reporters after inaugurating Parisara, an organic food store at Sharadadevi Nagar, he said cultivation and consumption of organic food items is not only good for soil health, but also human health.Cautioning people against the ill-effects of consuming food from crops cultivated using chemicals and fertilisers, Mr. Gowda said society has lately started waking up to the advantages of consuming organic food. He claimed that both his family as well as that of former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah have shifted to consuming only organic food items.Recalling that organic farming had received a boost during the previous tenure of B.S. Yediyurappa as Chief Minister, he expressed hope that the present government under him would renew the State’s support for cultivation of organic crops.The organic food store makes available a variety of millets, ragi and rice grown without using chemical … [Read more...] about G.T. Deve Gowda calls for promotion of organic farming

The United Nations Secuity Council today designated JeM Chief, Masood Azhar as a global terrorist after China lifted its technical hold on his listing under the UNSC 1267 sanctions committee. The proposal to designate Azhar under the 1267 Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee of the UN Security Council was moved by France, UK and the US on February 27. What does the listing mean Once a person or entity is designated a terrorist by the Security Council, all the countries, which are member of the United Nations, will have to establish a range of domestic mechanisms such as adoption of the list at the national level, or the use of nationally-based designations of individuals or entities appearing on them. A series of bans, including finances, travel and arms, will be imposed on the person or the entity. * Finance Once an individual or an entity/group is put on UN-designated list of terrorists, a UN member is required to — - To freeze funds, financial assets, economic resources of the … [Read more...] about Highlights of India’s dossier implicating Masood Azhar

'I will feel peaceful when she is back in India even if she has to be in a prison.' IMAGE: Bexin and Fathima nee Nimisha. Bindu Sampath, a beautician from Thiruvananthapuram, is the voice of all those mothers who have lost their children to ISIS. It came as a rude shock to her when her daughter Nimisha, who went to study dentistry in Kasargod, changed her religion, name and attire one day. Within four days of meeting a man named Bexin, she married him. Both of them converted to Islam. Bindu's daughter Nimisha became Fathima and started wearing a burqa. In July 2016, Bindu filed a habeas corpus petition in the Kerala high court, but the court deemed it fit to grant Nimisha permission to live with her husband as she was an adult. Protests from her mother did not have any effect on the daughter, and the couple left for Sri Lanka. That was the last she heard from her daughter. It was recently reported that out of 900 ISIS members who surrendered in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar, … [Read more...] about A mother’s battle to bring her daughter back from ISIS

'She won the first prize in the state for chanting shlokas from the Gita.'Rediff.com's Shobha Warrier.Nimisha was the apple of her mother's eye, a talented girl who won prizes for classical dance and music. Nimisha, who used to win prizes for chanting the Bhagavad Gita when in school, witnessed a change of faith, of name and in attire, in a relatively short time. She changed her name to Fathima and married Issa, a Christian who also converted to Islam. Merlin (external link), a woman from Kochi working in Mumbai, also converted to Islam before getting married to Issa's brother Yahiya.All four went missing soon after. The last their families heard was that both couples had gone off to Sri Lanka. Nimisha was a student of the Century Dental College in Kasargod when she met Issa. Some four days later the two were married. Nimisha's mother Bindu, a beautician based in Thiruvananthapuram, is shocked at the path that her daughter has taken. She spoke to Shobha Warrier: 'How can they run away … [Read more...] about Nimisha became ‘Fathima’ and disappeared

        Doctors are seeing an alarming increase in the number of people suffering from fatty liver, which is a worrying trend as fatty liver could lead to liver damage and even liver cancer. With increased obesity and metabolic diseases like diabetes, non-alcoholic fatty liver leading to hepatitis and eventually cirrhosis is an emerging problem. “We always talk about viral hepatitis, but non-viral hepatitis caused by our lifestyle will be the biggest cause of liver morbidity and mortality in the next 20 years,” said Dr Neelam Mohan, director of paediatric hepatology and liver transplant at Medanta – the medicity..20% of the people with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease will get liver cirrhosis in 20 years, about the same proportion as among the alcoholics. Liver cirrhosis is a condition in which chronic damage to the liver causes scar tissues to replace healthy liver tissues.“With the new vaccines and medicines, the burden of viral … [Read more...] about Fatty liver disease is a rising cause of liver damage in India