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The Minister of Health speaks on various aspects of health. heart disease burden; urges people to stay active and eat less unhealthy foodmeanwhile, world heart day Saturday Program, Minister of Health Dinesh Gundu Rao He emphasized that the increasing prevalence of heart-related diseases is mainly due to lifestyle changes and unhealthy diet.Speaking at a health awareness walk in Bengaluru on Saturday, the minister highlighted the role of processed foods and poor lifestyle choices in the rise in cardiovascular diseases.Minister Rao said, “We need to minimize our intake of processed foods as much as possible,'' emphasizing the need for people to…
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted by federal authorities on charges that he received illegal donations and benefits from Turkish government officials and Turkish businessmen, and gave them preferential treatment in return. The indictment comes after a months-long investigation by federal prosecutors, who accused Adams’ current and former colleagues, including School Principal David Banks and Police Chief Edward Caban, who recently resigned after his cellphone was seized. Many of them are also being investigated. Others close to Mr. Adams, including a former building authority director and a former police inspector, have similarly faced scandals and accusations. In…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Soaring real estate prices have made home buying difficult for many. But the movement for affordable housing is gaining momentum. A growing number of stakeholders believe that addressing the affordable housing crisis not only meets an immediate social need, but can also spur growth in the real estate sector. Affordable housing can attract more buyers, stimulate construction activity and create job opportunities, all of which contribute to the growth of the real estate market. Moreover, a growing number of organizations and thought leaders are asserting that housing is a basic human right,…
Shortly after Vice President Kamala Harris announced Tim Walz as her running mate last month, a photo of the Minnesota governor cradling an adorable piglet in his arms at the 2019 Minnesota State Fair went viral, delighting Democratic supporters, activists and pundits alike. Earlier this month, Walz tweeted that he had “made a new friend” during a campaign stop at a dairy farm where he bottle-fed a calf. Many politicians come across as a bit stuffy, trading in suits for flannel and turkey legs for obligatory farm visits and state fairs, but Waltz fits in seamlessly with a genuine love…
The super tropical storm named Helen is now a Category 1 hurricane, slamming into the Caribbean Sea near Cuba and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. Forecasters expect the storm, with maximum sustained winds of 80 mph as of Wednesday morning, to rapidly strengthen over the next 24 hours before hitting western Florida as a severe storm late Thursday. “There is a risk of life-threatening storm surge from Tropical Storm Helene along the entire west coast of the Florida peninsula,” the National Hurricane Center said in a statement early Wednesday morning.The National Hurricane Center has predicted parts of Florida's Big Bend could see…
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, one of the largest and best-known labor unions in the United States, has declined to endorse any presidential candidate, citing deep political divisions among its members and dissatisfaction with each of the major candidates’ stances on key union priorities. In a tight presidential race in which most unions are backing Vice President Kamala Harris, the Teamsters’ decision not to endorse her could be seen as a high-profile rebuke, especially since Harris is part of a Democratic administration that has generally been strong in supporting union rights. But it remains to be seen whether the decision…
Last week, Republicans launched a string of bizarre and racist claims about Haitian immigrants, including falsely suggesting that they eat people’s pets. The baseless attacks came from both the party’s official social media accounts, lawmakers and Republican presidential candidates. Vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance said Monday that “illegal Haitian immigrants” are “causing chaos,” while former President Donald Trump categorically and falsely asserted during Tuesday’s debate with Vice President Kamala Harris that “they’re eating the pets of people who live there. This is what’s going on in our country.” The comments echo commonly used tropes and past attempts to link Haitian…
A late-summer heatwave has ignited a wave of devastating wildfires across the western United States, forcing thousands to evacuate and casting the sky in an eerie orange hue in parts of Southern California. Of course, this is bad for almost everyone, except for the melanophila beetles. These pumpkin seed-sized insects are pyrophiles, meaning they love fire and need it to reproduce: While most animals are fleeing wildfires, these insects fly toward the flames, where they mate and lay their eggs in the embers. Those eggs hatch into insect-like larvae that feed on the freshly burned wood. The Rhine Fire in…
OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, is trying something different: its newly released AI system is designed not just to immediately return an answer to a question, but to “think” or “reason” before responding. The result is a product, officially called o1 but affectionately called Strawberry, that can solve tricky logic puzzles, ace math tests, and write code for new video games. All of which is pretty awesome. Here are some things that aren’t cool: nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons. OpenAI’s assessment is that Strawberry will help people with knowledge in these fields build these weapons. In Strawberry’s system card (a…
Recently, the Republican presidential candidate decided to spread inflammatory lies about an immigrant community of roughly 15,000 people living in a small Ohio city. Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance hammered home the message on Monday, declaring that “Haitian illegal immigrants” are “causing chaos all over Springfield, Ohio” and that “people have had their pets kidnapped and eaten by people who should not be in this country.” This allegation is untrue in every respect. Springfield, Ohio’s Haitian immigrant community is overwhelmingly (if not entirely) made up of legal U.S. residents. And there is absolutely no evidence that any pets have…