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The study showed that the obesity plays a larger role than pregnancy complications such as preeclampsia and gestational diabetes increasing risk of developing heart disease later in life.“We demonstrate, for the first time, that adverse pregnancy outcomes are primarily indicators–and not the root cause–of future heart health,” said corresponding author Sadiya Khan, the Magerstadt Professor of Cardiovascular Epidemiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.“This means that pregnancy just reveals the risk for heart disease that is already there,” Khan added.The researchers followed 4,216 first-time pregnant individuals from the early stages of their pregnancy to an average of 3.7 years…

Sheikh Hasina, it will be noted, recently returned to Bangladesh after a sixteen-day visit abroad. In the United States, she addressed the UN General Assembly in New York apart from spending time in Washington. On her way back home, she was in Britain for three days, where she met a number of British political personalities. It was during her stay in New York that the US authorities made it known that Washington had begun applying its visa restriction measures on Bangladeshi officials, politicians and others suspected to be undermining the electoral process in Bangladesh.The pressure on Bangladesh has been growing.…

“This action is based on certain material supervisory concerns observed in the manner of onboarding of their customers onto this mobile application. Any further onboarding of customers of the bank on the ‘bob World’ application will be subject to rectification of the deficiencies observed and strengthening of the related processes by the bank to the satisfaction of RBI,” the central bank said in a statement issued on Tuesday.The bank has been further directed to ensure that already onboarded ‘bob World’ customers do not face any disruption on account of this suspension.The bob World mobile app was introduced by the Bank…

The former Union Minister for Information Technology lodged a complaint with the Greater Chennai City Police.Dayanidhi Maran, in a post on X said, “On Sunday Rs 99,999 was stolen from my @Axis Bank personal savings account through a net banking transfer via@IDFCFIRSTBANK-@BillDesk, by-passing all normal safety protocols. An OTP, the standard protocol for such transactions, was neither generated nor received by my linked mobile number. Instead a call was made to the account’s joint holder, my wife’s number, and the fraudsters had the gall to ask if the transaction had taken place. They pretended to be from the bank but…

New Delhi, Oct 10 (IANS) The Indian Sub Junior Men’s and Women’s Hockey Teams flew from New Delhi to Amsterdam, Netherlands in the wee hours of Tuesday to participate in their maiden international games scheduled to be played from 13th October to 16th October. The tour not only promises to be an exciting chapter in the story of Indian hockey but also stands as a testament to its flourishing prowess at the grassroots level.The Indian Sub Junior Men’s Hockey Team, under the leadership of Captain Manmeet Singh Rai and Vice Captain Ashu Maurya, is set to face the Netherlands Boys…

La Louvière, Oct 10 (IANS) Ex-Chelsea winger Eden Hazard announced his retirement from football after leaving Real Madrid at the end of last season. The Belgian has been without a club since leaving Madrid after his contract was terminated in June. In a social media (Instagram) post, announcing his retirement, Hazard wrote, “You must listen to yourself and say stop at the right time. After 16 years and more than 700 matches played, I have decided to end my career as a professional footballer. I was able to realise my dream, I have played and had fun on many pitches…

Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav noted that unchecked proliferation of such centres would negatively impact students who invest time and resources in legitimate education.The court dismissed a plea by a student who sought admission in a course at Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) after obtaining a degree from an offshore campus of Sikkim Manipal University.IGNOU rejected the student’s application, stating that degrees from the offshore centre were not acceptable for academic purposes.Pursuing education through unapproved means would not yield an indefeasible right to admission in another course, the court said.It urged caution to prevent the growth of substandard education and…

Microsoft, which first introduced artificial intelligence (AI) to its Bing search engine in an effort to compete with Google in the search engine market, held only three per cent of the market share, according to Techopedia.com.Earlier this month, Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella admitted that the Bing search engine is not as good as Google, and becoming Apple’s default search engine could actually help Bing grow in the global search market.Other search engines, like Yandex (1.5 per cent), Yahoo (1.2 per cent), Baidu (1.1 per cent), and DuckDuckGo (0.5 per cent), had smaller market shares.By August, Google commanded a…

“The population of Scheduled Tribes in Goa is very small as per the census. Hence reservation is not possible,” Ramdas Athawale said in reply to a question while addressing a Press conference here.Reacting to it, Goa Forward MLA Vijai Sardesai said that the BJP government should respond to the Union ministers’ statement and clarify it.“Is this a joke or the BJP Government’s Policy? Athawale’s statement that reservation for STs is not possible in Goa Assembly is too shocking and improbable to consider seriously,” Sardesai said.The Fatorda MLA said that the Goa Assembly has unanimously requested the state government to take…

As a bench of Justices Aniruddha Bose and Bela M Trivedi heard the plea, Justice Trivedi asked Additional Solicitor GeneralS.V. Raju, appearing for the CBI, that why the Bombay High Court bail order of January 9, granting bail for two weeks only, was still continuing. “Bail has been continuing. They keep filing letters. I do not know what is happening there,” the ASG said. The bench has listed the case for on Monday to allow the ASG to get instructions. The apex court was hearing the CBI’s appeal against the Bombay HC order from January that ordered the release of…