Fish oil prevents cholesterol ......Have a ride..thru the topic

Scientists at Columbia University Medical Center have found yet another reason why eating fish can be beneficial.

Dr. Richard J. Deckelbaum, Director of the Columbia Institute of Human Nutrition, has found that a diet rich in fish oils can prevent the accumulation of fat in the aorta, the main artery leaving the heart. The researcher says that the beneficial actions of fish oil, which block cholesterol build-up in arteries, are even found at high fat intakes. Fish are generally rich in omega-3 fatty acids, which are known to provide many health benefits, such as helping to prevent mental illness and delaying some of the disabilities associated with aging.


Eating tuna, sardines, salmon and other so-called cold water fish seems to protect people against clogged arteries. Omega-3 fatty acids are also known to lower triglycerides, a type of fat often found in the bloodstream.

The researchers observed that the fatty acids contained in fish oil markedly inhibit the entry of "bad" cholesterol (LDL) into arteries, and, consequently, much less cholesterol collects in these vessels.

Kingfisher cuts its pilots' salaries by Rs 80,000

Private air-carrier, Kingfisher Airlines, has effected a Rs 80,000 cut in the salaries of all its pilots.Earlier, they were paided a salary of Rs 4.30-lakh per month. Now it has been cut to Rs 3.50-lakh.

The salary package is mainly based on the flying hours of about 70-hours.

Light aircraft lands in Australian harbour

A light aircraft made an emergency landing in shallow water in an Australian harbour on Friday and the pilot and five passengers are safe.

There was an engine trouble which made them to land.

KP, Flintoff became the most expensive players

England players Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff became the most expensive players of the Indian Premier League after being sold for a whopping $1.55 million (appr Rs 7.35 crore) in the second edition, getting Rs 1.35 crore more than what Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni got in the first edition.

Pietersen, who was England's captain till recently, was bought by Bangalore Royal Challengers while Flintoff went to Chennai Super Kings at the auction.

State to introduce bill on Medical Care

The state government will introduce, in the forthcoming budget session, a bill on emergency medical services with an aim to extend unrestrained medical care to patients unescorted by relatives. The bill seeks to make it mandatory for all private hospitals to admit and treat victims of accidents, natural calamities or terror attacks.

The new bill makes a provision for punishment and penalties for hospitals not abiding by the directives on treatment of patients during any emergency.

Hatts off for Bhushan Gagrani, secretary for medical education and drug department (MEDD).

Kampani gets bail !!!

Justice K C Bhanu of the AP High Court on Thursday reserved his orders on the petitions filed by Nimesh N Kampani, former non executive director of Nagarjuna Finance Ltd (NFL), who sought quashing of the criminal proceedings against him in a lower court and grant him anticipatory bail.

The case against promoter directors of NFL and Kampani is for committing a fraud on the public to a tune of nearly Rs 100 crore.

Twin degree programme

When it comes to twinning programmes, they're mostly distributed evenly of half and half - one semester in the foreign university and the rest in India. But the masters programme in MS embedded systems offered at the Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, designed and developed for working professionals in semi-conductor is held in the weekends. Another programme offered in the same way is the MBA-MS-MITS.

After signing a collaborative twinning engineering programme with University at Buffalo, New York, the course is structured in such a way that students have to spend only a month away from home.

All courses will be taught only on weekends for up to six weeks. Each of these days will comprise full-day instructions. The first batch of both the twinning degree programme will start in July.

USA Swimming bans Phelps for three months

Record-setting Olympic champion Michael Phelps has been banned for three months by USA Swimming amid controversy over a photograph published in a British newspaper purportedly showing him smoking marijuana.

Michael has voluntarily accepted this reprimand and has committed to earn back our trust.

Satyam shares up; market cheers new CEO appointment

Shares of Satyam Computer were up 4% at Rs48.10 at 10:00 AM on Friday, after the company announced the appointment of a new CEO.

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ICICI fires dealer for forex fraud

ICICI Bank has sacked one of its dealers who had entered into improper forward trades by executing deals to favour four Kolkata-based Top 20 Global Fin Brands 19 Indian banks in Top 500 Global Financial Brands corporates.

These companies could buy or sell currency at exchange rates which were more attractive than what they would have been offered in the regular course of business.

The employee had struck deals by ensuring that the corporates received favourable rates by tinkering with the last two digits in the forex rates, which is typically as 46.4534 or 28.6751. The software did not throw up an alert when these transactions happened since the first four digits were not changed. The deals were done in Japanese Yen, Euro and dollars.

A senior bank official said the bank got suspicious when it spotted that the dealer, who was a relationship manager for the global market division in Mumbai, was carrying out trades for a bunch of Kolkata corporates. This never happens unless the company concerned is very big.