‘We Want Our Tricolour Back,’ Students To Central Team At NIT Srinagar

Students of NIT who are from outside Kashmir, clashed with the police at the institute’s gate when they were prevented from leaving the campus. SRINAGAR: In a packed hall at the National Institute of Technology in Srinagar, a student representative today told visiting officials from the Centre’s education ministry that they want the institute shifted out of Srinagar and want action taken against policemen who lathicharged student protesters late on Tuesday evening. “And we want our national flag back from the police,” he said amid loud cheers from fellow students,…

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It’s Clear – We All Need to Take Salt Off the Table

Image credit: Istock After all this time, why don’t we know for sure whether eating too much [FILL IN THE BLANK] is bad for us? You can fill in that blank with saturated fat, with meat, with cholesterol, and the answer’s the same, because the kind of research that would definitively answer that question is impossible to do. We can’t hold large groups of people captive, feeding them a specific kind of diet until they die from it – or don’t. The studies in which people are held captive are…

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Are We All Getting Fatter?

While Body Mass Index (BMI) is found to be rising across both sexes and within all social groups, there has been a significantly larger increase in those who already have the highest BMIs, reveals a new study. The BMI average was found to be at a higher level for both males and females, and also across all social groups. However, when the researchers looked at the figures for those participants in the top and bottom of the study they found that there were marked differences, with much greater increases at…

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iPhone SE Price, Launch Date, Specs, and Everything Else We Already Know

Apple late on Thursday started sending media invites for its long anticipated event on March 21, where the company is expected to showcase the 4-inch iPhone SE, a 9.7-inch iPad Pro model, and a range of new Apple Watch models alongside more accessories. The launch date corroborates several previous reports that pointed to an Apple event on March 21 where the company will reveal its new 4-inch iPhone. A flurry of leaks related to Apple’s new iPhone has already given us a glimpse of what to expect from the launch…

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iPhone SE Price, Launch Date, Specs, and Everything Else We Already Know

Apple late on Thursday started sending media invites for its long anticipated event on March 21, where the company is expected to showcase the 4-inch iPhone SE, a 9.7-inch iPad Pro model, and a range of new Apple Watch models alongside more accessories. The launch date corroborates several previous reports that pointed to an Apple event on March 21 where the company will reveal its new 4-inch iPhone. A flurry of leaks related to Apple’s new iPhone has already given us a glimpse of what to expect from the launch…

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