Rowdy Movie Theatrical Trailer | RGV,Mohan Babu

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Legend Theatrical Trailer HD || 2014

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjifu2DSf9cNIz7_MHcSLAYOK50I0rfHBKFPY9tRwjOyQIKF58acQezKk8-J62iM51eoP6MLb4vi_XbYxFwDan-_w1_Za_ybuw9YkQhZBblLAdKYMjj5Vafxo10TxnmdXMY9qF4t1M05xY1/s1600/gfhd.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="135" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjifu2DSf9cNIz7_MHcSLAYOK50I0rfHBKFPY9tRwjOyQIKF58acQezKk8-J62iM51eoP6MLb4vi_XbYxFwDan-_w1_Za_ybuw9YkQhZBblLAdKYMjj5Vafxo10TxnmdXMY9qF4t1M05xY1/s1600/gfhd.PNG" width="320" /></a></div> <br /></div> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="510" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Moy7Ghelp9w" width="854"></iframe></div>

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Audio Teaser : Legend

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZFhGuPkG1G9Yv0Kca3zxU8QUEZAh4gdvJZLOOkiutspY_UJBxcCxM6UV68JzZ71pLEbX0mtkCq5menFh5adesQKkMurnHAoCSDhiJDwrthlaxBNMz3_fFKndvNrsYKzag3G0o6LwF9LZy/s1600/1962822_297572627062273_1660850180_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZFhGuPkG1G9Yv0Kca3zxU8QUEZAh4gdvJZLOOkiutspY_UJBxcCxM6UV68JzZ71pLEbX0mtkCq5menFh5adesQKkMurnHAoCSDhiJDwrthlaxBNMz3_fFKndvNrsYKzag3G0o6LwF9LZy/s1600/1962822_297572627062273_1660850180_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.940000534057617px;">Fantastic one.. Very fresh massive BGM by DSP. Eagerly waiting for the audio. Check out the teaser.</span></div> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/zSTVyQtCVkc?feature=player_embedded" width="640"></iframe></div>

Audio Teaser : Legend

Fantastic one.. Very fresh massive BGM by DSP. Eagerly waiting for the audio. Check out the teaser.

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Amitabh Bachchan’s Facebook page crosses 10 million likes

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDbKZAOkEkRaw7blL8JU-0LsGswzENPFV1MpajT4TCa6lMWEfBd6J8hcmOAnJcxxjPZgN3ZGQYtIAiqqoR93RmOXDe5KOkUCpp-t2uKkkuZG_4wi2Ld0lYCcoDRgvSMSFxfeymEeJ7oNIS/s1600/bachchan480.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDbKZAOkEkRaw7blL8JU-0LsGswzENPFV1MpajT4TCa6lMWEfBd6J8hcmOAnJcxxjPZgN3ZGQYtIAiqqoR93RmOXDe5KOkUCpp-t2uKkkuZG_4wi2Ld0lYCcoDRgvSMSFxfeymEeJ7oNIS/s1600/bachchan480.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> Amitabh Bachchan is clearly one of the most popular Bollywood celebrities.</div> <div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> The actor, who is known to be quite active when it comes to social networking, crossed 10 million likes on Facebook. The exact number going up to 10,001,457.</div> <div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> Big B put up his 508th post on Facebook, saying, “10 MILLION !!!!! Thank you all .. just so overwhelmed ..what a way to start the day …” Amitabh Bachchan has an equally impressive following on Twitter as well – 8.1 million followers.</div> <div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> The 71-year-old actor, who is yet to break the record of his contemporaries Salman Khan (14,273,556 likes) and Aamir Khan (11039579 likes), thanked his fans for their love and support.</div> <div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> Bollywood Baadshah Shah Rukh Khan boasts of 7,253,483 likes on Facebook and 6.92 million followers on Twitter.</div> </div>

Amitabh Bachchan’s Facebook page crosses 10 million likes

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HC stays nationwide release of Madhuri, Juhi’s ‘Gulaab Gang’

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitYx7I2WbUE_2nlyWnRi4cM7r6HTHJG-9kN3EswtSrVG9NvrQ-JU_wzF19qvQIg_FTyaa7HuzPCLpR03H1uUwf2rhIeEqZgFVOWuVmNskV4BMv-kFcDc_SP4RDSsv2dky61eOc1dQNBj6q/s1600/gulaabgang.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitYx7I2WbUE_2nlyWnRi4cM7r6HTHJG-9kN3EswtSrVG9NvrQ-JU_wzF19qvQIg_FTyaa7HuzPCLpR03H1uUwf2rhIeEqZgFVOWuVmNskV4BMv-kFcDc_SP4RDSsv2dky61eOc1dQNBj6q/s1600/gulaabgang.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> The Delhi High Court today stayed the nationwide release on Friday of Hindi film Gulaab Gang, starring Madhuri Dixit and Juhi Chawla, on the plea of activist Sampat Pal who claimed that the film has been inspired by her group Gulaabi gang.</div> <div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva restrained the film’s producers, Sahara One Media Entertainment Ltd, and their agents from “releasing, exhibiting, distributing and promoting” the film till the next date of hearing on May 8.</div> <div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> The court was of the prima facie view that “irreparable damage and injury” would be caused to Pal if the movie is released.</div> <div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> It noted in its order that while the loss to the producers would be monetary, she will suffer both financial loss, as her copyright over Gulaabi gang has been used without her permission, and loss of reputation “which cannot be calculated in terms of money”.</div> <div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> Pal in her plea has claimed that her permission was not sought prior to making of the film and had alleged that it contains defamatory content which would adversely affect her reputation.</div> <div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> Pal was present in court, dressed in a pink saree, which has come to symbolise her group.</div> <div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> Her group is actively involved in fighting social injustices against women, at times, adopting unconventional means.</div> </div>

HC stays nationwide release of Madhuri, Juhi’s ‘Gulaab Gang’

The Delhi High Court today stayed the nationwide release on Friday of Hindi film Gulaab Gang, starring Madhuri Dixit and Juhi Chawla, on...

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Eating fish can boost good cholesterol levels

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhreqcJ79eDXubFoMOehspxpwpdnvU5_R_c-_4_mmuR8l1zyhkHTeOJuyx4UErnUiL2KyZFsfNqcPc_lZfCyxiN97xL0v1wyX5kaaAwa2zBr_bV2yN-5FCtcShm8YktN4tnpHk6h1jrHh3s/s1600/fish-lll.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhreqcJ79eDXubFoMOehspxpwpdnvU5_R_c-_4_mmuR8l1zyhkHTeOJuyx4UErnUiL2KyZFsfNqcPc_lZfCyxiN97xL0v1wyX5kaaAwa2zBr_bV2yN-5FCtcShm8YktN4tnpHk6h1jrHh3s/s1600/fish-lll.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> ncreasing the intake of fish to a minimum of three to four weekly meals can boost good cholesterol levels which may provide protection against heart diseases, a new study has found.</div> <div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> People who increased their intake of fatty fish had more large High Density Lipoprotein (HDL) particles in their blood than those who were less frequent eaters of fish, said researchers at the University of Eastern Finland.</div> <div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> The study provides new information on how the consumption of fish affects the size and lipid concentrations of lipoproteins which transport lipids in the blood, researchers said.</div> <div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> They observed that a higher intake of fish increased the number of large HDL particles and lipids contained in them. Population-based studies have shown that HDL cholesterol also known as good cholesterol – and large HDL particles are efficient in sweeping extra cholesterol off artery walls.</div> <div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> Large HDL particles have been associated with reduced risk of cardiovascular diseases, whereas small HDL particles may even have opposite effects.</div> <div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> Positive changes in lipid metabolism were observed in persons who increased their intake of fish most, ie in persons who ate at least three to four fish meals per week.</div> <div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> The study participants ate fatty fish such as salmon, rainbow trout, herring and vendace. No added butter or cream was used in the preparation of fish.</div> <div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> The study does not give answers to whether a similar effect would have been observed had the study participants mainly eaten low-fat fish such as zander and perch, researchers said.</div> <div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> The study was published in the journal Plos One.</div> </div>

Eating fish can boost good cholesterol levels

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Angry outbursts may trigger heart attack, stroke

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7f4F-ZUP4o6oSxoX0sXwZRq1ZIDhoo6YOTKhVDIxkbOj-N9IKYp7ATWLcV9G7xSZJA6cbXtDZk7ksbtiWw2ZrdZCFbcEg90MSSoqvOYRgRAqb_b5DFRUyhiBVj_o_6wFt0Hmp32ZHyHiR/s1600/angry-med.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7f4F-ZUP4o6oSxoX0sXwZRq1ZIDhoo6YOTKhVDIxkbOj-N9IKYp7ATWLcV9G7xSZJA6cbXtDZk7ksbtiWw2ZrdZCFbcEg90MSSoqvOYRgRAqb_b5DFRUyhiBVj_o_6wFt0Hmp32ZHyHiR/s1600/angry-med.gif" width="320" /></a></div> <div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> People who experience angry outbursts are five times more likely to have a heart attack in the following two hours, a new Harvard research has warned.</div> <div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> Statistical analysis of 6,000 heart attacks and strokes suggested that in the two hours after an angry outburst, the risk of an attack was 4.74 times higher than at other times and the risk of stroke 3.62 times higher.</div> <div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> According to scientists at Harvard University, thousands of cardiac arrests are triggered by outbursts of rage each year, with high-risk people such as those with raised blood pressure most likely to suffer from losing their temper, ‘The Times’ reported.</div> <div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> Psychological treatments to calm people down could be an effective way to prevent heart attacks alongside drugs such as statins and beta-blockers, they said.</div> <div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> “Although the risk of experiencing an acute cardiovascular event with any single outburst of anger is relatively low, the risk can accumulate for people with frequent episodes of anger,” said Elizabeth Mostofsky, an epidemiologist at the Harvard School of Public Health and main author of the study.</div> <div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> “This is particularly important for people who have higher risk due to other underlying risk factors or those who have already had a heart attack, stroke or diabetes.</div> <div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> “A person without many risk factors for cardiovascular disease, who has only one episode of anger per month, has a very small additional risk, but a person with multiple risk factors or a history of heart attack or stroke, and who is frequently angry, has a much higher absolute excess risk over time,” Mostofsky added.</div> <div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> The study suggests that people who said they were furious were at higher risk than those who said that they were merely ‘moderately angry’, but researchers cautioned that there was not enough data to judge whether more intense anger made heart problems more likely. The study was published in the European Heart Journal.</div> </div>

Angry outbursts may trigger heart attack, stroke

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Billboards and BMW herald the Party’s Aam Aadmi

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibj2dzxoJ8qCxLQD5TW4ndvu_JZFUBobYJatWgisyINJdOL-eYLTpoDiL969cAeHU0qZuJk6rKsIWXa0rupz_KYoDPHPN3AcSLPIWpOdp5VsM83S3h95bAEtd3S_m-cERwuV_XpMziWyU4/s1600/dfg.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibj2dzxoJ8qCxLQD5TW4ndvu_JZFUBobYJatWgisyINJdOL-eYLTpoDiL969cAeHU0qZuJk6rKsIWXa0rupz_KYoDPHPN3AcSLPIWpOdp5VsM83S3h95bAEtd3S_m-cERwuV_XpMziWyU4/s1600/dfg.PNG" /></a></div> <div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> <span style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">It was a Saturday morning, three months before an election, and the sight before them was all too familiar. A group of policemen blocked their path, enabling a convoy to whiz by without stopping. It had more than a hundred vehicles, most of them large and expensive, with even a BMW in the mix. </span></div> <div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> Each car had a sticker that paid homage to their leader. The posters were similar to a large billboard that stared down at them, sponsored by a local party worker hopeful of a ticket. The aam aadmi of Uttar Pradesh watched as nothing, not even toll booths, stopped Arvind Kejriwal’s roadshow. Impressive as the show of strength was, some quietly asked the question all of them were thinking. The Aam Aadmi Party had started with the premise that they had arrived to change politics. What if politics had changed them?</div> <div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> Over three days, the convoy, ever changing as it was, covered more than 1,000 km. For most of the journey, Kejriwal travelled in a Toyota Innova, only to emerge on top of an open jeep when he addressed the crowds in towns along the way. Those who followed him identified themselves by stickers on their vehicles, juxtaposed with their own pictures and welcoming him on his first visit to UP. These vehicles betrayed their wealth. A few were in a rickety jeep, or a tempo, but most rode in Toyota Fortuners, Mahindra Scorpios and Toyota Innovas. One ticket hopeful from Meerut followed Kejriwal in a BMW. As they passed, a local laughed: “How can these be the aam aadmi?”</div> <div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> At several places, local volunteers waited, garlands in hand. They made a beeline for Kejriwal, often stopping other traffic on the busy national highway. At most places where he chose to step out of his vehicle and address the townspeople, he did so right by the main road. What ensued was long traffic jams, and to avoid them many used the wrong carriageway. In Bareilly for instance, once Kejriwal had passed by, traffic came to a standstill.</div> <div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> If people had to stop for the Aam Aadmi Party to pass by, toll booths didn’t slow the cavalcade down either. At most booths, nearly every vehicle, including those of the media, just sped by. Booth attendants waved the vehicles on, with no money or receipts exchanged.</div> <div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> Some of those asking the questions were Aam Aadmi Party volunteers themselves. On the way back to Delhi from Kanpur, Kejriwal’s cavalcade turned into a small clearing in Aurraiya, where a group of 50 had collected to listen to him. He didn’t emerge out of the car. One man in an AAP cap ran to Kejriwal’s Innova and asked, “Utar ke do minute baat kar lijiye sir.” The answer he got was that there weren’t enough people to speak to.</div> <div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> In the three days that marked his first foray into UP, bar the one at the rally in Kanpur, each speech mirrored the other. He spoke of himself, and his Aam Aadmi Party as a collection of “smallpeople, without money, or influence.” The cars, the billboards and the police that lined police argued against him.</div> <div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Meeting with Tauqeer Raza</strong></div> <div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> Months after his meeting with cleric Tauqeer Raza stoked a controversy ahead of the Delhi elections, Arvind Kejriwal met Raza again Tuesday. After the last meeting, the BJP had alleged Raza was known for issuing fatwas, including one that Taslima Nasreen should be beheaded; Raza had then denied this.</div> <div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> Raza, who called on Kejriwal at his home Tuesday, said the meeting was aimed at finding a secular option to fight an election being waged “almost completely on communal lines”. “We aren’t ruling out the possibility of aiding Kejriwal’s party,” he said.</div> <div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> He belogs to a family of clerics with a large number of Sunni followers in Bareilly. He also heads the political Ittehad-e-Millat Council, which won an assembly seat in UP in 2012. This year, Raza said, his party is not looking to contest.</div> <div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> AAP sources said his support might prove decisive. “Historically the Muslim vote in UP has decided who wins,” said a leader.</div> </div>

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Tamil Nadu govt betrayed Sri Lankan Tamils: TNCC chief

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR4UstskzZWVeBCz5yptEMX5il2UR4LXxUd5NpI_kJglHrfdemcdaaOADJghm53H1uDo4UPd9N92JWAC7lKPBmcdWPotywZazWFjFT8cnT0_OZY3A47IjT9zw4KxvNMMeiJxUoQRb5xZwk/s1600/jayam.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR4UstskzZWVeBCz5yptEMX5il2UR4LXxUd5NpI_kJglHrfdemcdaaOADJghm53H1uDo4UPd9N92JWAC7lKPBmcdWPotywZazWFjFT8cnT0_OZY3A47IjT9zw4KxvNMMeiJxUoQRb5xZwk/s1600/jayam.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">CHENNAI: Joining issue with chief minister J Jayalalithaa for criticizing the Congress-led UPA government the Centre, </span>Tamil Nadu<span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"></span>Congress<span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> Committee chief </span>B S Gnanadesikan<span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> on Wednesday refuted her allegations that the national party had acted against Tamils.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Prime Minister Manmohan Singh-led UPA government came under sharp attack from Jayalalithaa during her Lok Sabha election campaign on Monday and Tuesday. The AIADMK leader listed out nine areas where the Congress had betrayed Tamil Nadu's interests, including frequent arrests fishermen by the Sri Lankan navy, retrieval of Katchatheevu island and defence training to Sri Lankan Army.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">The Congress leader said neither the Congress nor the UPA regime betrayed Tamils and the rest of the country. "Betrayal is not in our dictionary," he said, listing out the initiatives taken by the Centre over the last ten for the welfare of Tamils.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">While the chief ministers of opposition-ruled states like Bihar, Gujarat, West Bengal, Odisha had got along with the Centre for welfare projects of their states, Tamil Nadu chief minister had been confronting the Centre from the day of her assuming office, he said.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Gnanadesikan recalled India's stand against Sri Lanka in the US-sponsored resolution at UNHRC, even as several countries opposed it.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Tamil Nadu parties went gaga over the British Prime Minister David Cameron's visit to the Tamil-dominated northeast province of Sri Lanka on the sidelines of CHOGM in Colombo last year. "Why not Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh does a similar gesture? By passing a resolution in the state assembly against the PM's visit to Lanka, Jayalalithaa betrayed the </span>Sri Lankan Tamils<span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">," he charged.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">The </span>TNCC<span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> chief also found fault with the Tamil Nadu government for putting off bilateral talks between fishermen of India and Sri Lanka, despite Union government sending repeated correspondences for the same. Retrieval of Katchatheevu islet ceded to Sri Lanka could be resolved only through bilateral talks between governments concerned and not through legal means, he said, in an apparent reference to Tamil Nadu government's petition in the Supreme Court.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">In the power front, Gnanadesikan cited the integration of southern power transmission grid with national grid in January as promised by the Centre. The state also could have easily realized more than 600MW of power had the state police taken action against protesters in Kudankulam.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">He reminded the Prime minister's intervention in releasing 9tmcft from Karnataka reservoirs, despite knowing the impending assembly elections and notifying the final award of the Cauvery water disputes tribunal.</span></div>

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UP doctors' strike: HC orders judicial probe, transfer of cops

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnLVodFiYpwY2sPMDm5GxbAMbkGlG8M80DFdNarmA_i5TAwzgwp7KpeRCPp_u5MpdcPelAZrt9t_qb32HqfpDNzdIQaggUSAJ1bVb0oQbtLTVMnxCRaxlr8bdmnvtrH2fY2WPirE9IdS46/s1600/docs-med.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnLVodFiYpwY2sPMDm5GxbAMbkGlG8M80DFdNarmA_i5TAwzgwp7KpeRCPp_u5MpdcPelAZrt9t_qb32HqfpDNzdIQaggUSAJ1bVb0oQbtLTVMnxCRaxlr8bdmnvtrH2fY2WPirE9IdS46/s1600/docs-med.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 5px 0px;"> LUCKNOW: Stepping in to end the deadlock over doctors' strike against attack on their colleagues, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Allahabad-high-court" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #024d99; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Allahabad high court</a> on Wednesday ordered a judicial probe and directed the UP government to transfer SSP Kanpur, Yashaswi Yadav, and other officials involved in the February 28 incident.</div> <br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Taking suo motu cognisance, the Lucknow bench comprising justices Imtiyaz Murtaza and Devendra Kumar Upadhaya clarified that the order of transfer is only to resolve the situation and should not be taken as a "stigma" on the officials, while requesting the doctors to resume their duties immediately. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">As the court assembled this morning, it directed that the matter be registered as a PIL and sought replies from principal secretary medical/health, SGPGI administrator and others by March 10, the next date of hearing. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">It also permitted the striking doctors to intervene in the matter and appointed senior advocate Jaideep Narain Mathur as amicus curiae. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">During the first half of the hearing, the court directed a probe by retired Justice V K Mathur into the matter. However as the court resumed the hearing in the second half, the state government informed it that a one man judicial commission of retired justice RMS Chauhan has already been set up. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Following the submission, the court kept its order in abeyance and directed the state government to file Justice Chauhan Commission's report in three weeks. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Also, the state government informed the court that with the model code of conduct coming into effect from today, police officials cannot be transferred but the court refused to consider it. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">The six-day-old strike has adversely hit medical services in several parts of the state. The medicos are protesting after their colleagues at GSVC medical college were allegedly beaten up by Kanpur Police and supporters of SP MLA Irfan Solanki on February 28 following an altercation with him. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">The doctors have been demanding arrest of Solanki, action against SSP Yashasvi Yadav and withdrawal of charges against 24 junior doctors. </span></div>

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To control soaring obesity, Britain plans to slap hefty sugar tax

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaORI-IJk72ccIikm-hqdk-ZKIzVR0wmXVAC2lcXoLnM-iZwhiGATvjFvdh-MBzEFcThnvU7o9hK-o-fNY0nPuUeIzmBthD4d-EjzAehdPCYqB-aO8oHN2j56IeXGuKN2w1TFUzAeo8d2s/s1600/df.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaORI-IJk72ccIikm-hqdk-ZKIzVR0wmXVAC2lcXoLnM-iZwhiGATvjFvdh-MBzEFcThnvU7o9hK-o-fNY0nPuUeIzmBthD4d-EjzAehdPCYqB-aO8oHN2j56IeXGuKN2w1TFUzAeo8d2s/s1600/df.PNG" /></a></div> <span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">LONDON: Britain may soon slap a hefty sugar tax to curb rocketing obesity rates in UK. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">The country's chief medical officer has told a parliamentary committee of MPs that sugar was addictive and the introduction of a sugar tax was needed urgently.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Speaking to the committee, Dame Sally Davies said that she believed that "research will find sugar is addictive". </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">She said "We may need to move toward some kind of sugar tax. I do fear this generation of children will live less than my parents' generation." </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">"They will be the first generation that live less, and that is of great concern". </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">UK consumes more than 5,727 million litres of </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/sugary-soft-drinks" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #024d99; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">sugary soft drinks</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> a year. Adding a 20 pence tax for every litre sold would raise more than £1.1 billion.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">About 64% of adults in the UK are considered to be overweight or obese. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Professor Terence Stephenson, chairman of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges said sugar gave people a "rapid high" which then drops while they are still producing insulin, resulting in a "craving" for more. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">UK's Department of Health already has a responsibility deal - a series of voluntary pledges by industry designed to tackle issues such as obesity.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Under the deal, Britain has asked all fast food companies to cut down sugar content in their products by 30% from immediate effect. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">One in four adults in England is obese with the numbers expected to climb to 60% of men, 50% of women, and 25% of children by 2050. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Three in every 10 children aged between two and 15 are overweight or obese. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Obesity and diabetes already costs the UK over £5 billion every year which is likely to rise to £50 billion in the next 36 years. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">An Action On Sugar campaign launched recently has calculated that a 20 to 30% reduction in sugar added by the food industry which, given a reasonable timeframe (3-5 years) is easily achievable, would result in a reduction in calorie intake of approximately 100kcal/day. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Experts said added sugar in our diet is a very recent phenomenon (150 years) and only occurred when sugar, obtained from sugar cane, beet and corn, became very cheap to produce.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">No other mammal eats added sugar and there is no requirement for added sugar in the human diet. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Chairman of Action on Sugar, professor Graham MacGregor said "We must now tackle the obesity epidemic both in the UK and worldwide. The present government and Department of Health Responsibility Deal has been shown to have had no effect on calorie intake and we must start a coherent and structured plan to slowly reduce the amount of calories people consume by slowly taking out added sugar from foods and soft drinks. This is a simple plan which gives a level playing field to the food industry". </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Liverpool, UK, Simon Capewell says "Sugar is the new tobacco. Everywhere, sugary drinks and junk foods are now pressed on unsuspecting parents and children by a cynical industry focussed on profit not health. The obesity epidemic is already generating a huge burden of disease and death. Obesity and diabetes already costs the UK over £5billion every year. Without regulation, these costs will exceed £50billion by 2050". </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">UK's largest group of doctors — the 2.2 lakh strong Academy of Medical Royal Colleges recently asked the David Cameron led government to immediately impose a 20% tax on sugary drinks to save Great Britain — the 'fat man' of Europe from the serious threat of obesity.</span></div>

To control soaring obesity, Britain plans to slap hefty sugar tax

LONDON: Britain may soon slap a hefty sugar tax to curb rocketing obesity rates in UK.  The country's chief medical officer has told ...

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