I know a lot of people might come at me with pitchforks for this one. How can something as normal, innocent, and unavoidable as sitting cause cancer?
It sounds terrifying, especially because sitting is literally how most of us make a living today. But the medical evidence backing this is massive and growing by the day. We aren't just guessing; prolonged sitting has strongly emerged in the data as a powerful, independent risk factor for colon cancer in adults in their 30s and 40s.
When you are glued to a desk or a screen for 10 hours a day, your entire digestive system goes to sleep. Your gut motility drops. This means waste and the natural toxins within it linger and press against the delicate lining of your colon for way too long. It is a slow, silent irritation of your cells.
On top of that, being constantly sedentary throws your metabolism out of balance. It spikes your insulin and keeps your body in a chronic, low-grade state of inflammation. You might not feel it, but it creates the exact biological environment where early cancer cells can thrive and multiply.
The most heartbreaking part is that people think a 45-minute gym session after work erases this. It doesn't. You cannot out-train 12 straight hours of sitting.
Our bodies simply were not built to be chained to chairs all day. You don't have to quit your desk job, but you have to break the cycle. Stand up, pace while taking a call, or stretch for two minutes every single hour or two. Your gut needs you to move.
We need a BlinkIt like Sarkari App to fix things immediately when we report such a thing and rate the work after it is done.
Keep the ticket open until things are fixed and deduct salary of local MLAs and MC Officials if work gets late.
What's the point of tech, internet, cheap labour and sophisticated machines when such a thing can't be done.
Today, I just narrowly escaped on ORR soon after entering from the Shamsabad Entry. I was negotiating a turn when a RMC truck suddenly came from the wrong side. God just saved me. Please take necessary action.
Survived COVID, survived Indian roads, survived adulterated food… and then you decide to risk your life doing some adventure activity in india ? Makes zero sense. Do whatever you want, just don’t play with your life.
Petrol pump owners claim that ethanol’s hygroscopic nature or affinity towards water is leading to contamination of their E20 stock during monsoons and in coastal areas since the existing underground storage tanks were designed for conventional petrol, not higher ethanol blends. Three petrol pump owners shared their concerns over the roll out of E20 with 'The Hindu' speaking on condition of anonymity, as oil marketing companies have instructed them not to speak publicly on the issue.
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Turns out the judge was not only running the gas agency, his business contract was being renewed all through his tenure as a judge and chief justice.
And all this was happening right under the nose of the Supreme Court, that punished NCERT for a chapter on judicial corruption.
Fake Maggi
Fake Thumbs Up
Fake Bournvita
Fake Paperboat
We are eating fake food despite paying full price.
Hospitals are full of cancer patients for this very reason.
A Man was arrested by @kanpurnagarpol for secretly recording obscene videos of his own family members in bathroom and saving these videos on Google Drive.
@Google informed Indian agencies through the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal about the same and after that Police arrested the accused after tracing his IP address. Fair Enough but that also means that anything you are saving on Google Drive is neither private nor secure. Google is accessing all your private, personal and confidential data 24 X 7.
SP Office, @CP_Jodhpur
Is it necessary that Govt Officers can meet a citizen only inside their AC offices? Why can not the SP come down to meet this aged woman?
Absolute Horror ! Toddlers who were left at a daycare facility in Bengaluru's Capgemini Technology Services office were allegedly subjected to physical abuse, punished by locking them in bathrooms, faucets sprayed on thier faces and much more. FIR registered, investigation on.
Vehicle buyers pay huge upfront taxes, fees, and cesses. In return, they deserve the basic right to buy the exact fuel their vehicle engines were designed to run on.
If the govt wanted to "experiment" with E20 fuel, they should have done it responsibly by either buying a sample fleet of second-hand cars to test in a controlled settings or invite willing citizens to opt-in using subsidized fuel.
Forcing a mandatory policy onto everyone first and checking if it damages their engines later is outrageous. Treating the entire public as involuntary test subjects is a massive overreach.
9,000 people die annually on Indian roads specifically from wrong side driving or stationary/slow vehicles on expressways.
The Dehradun Expressway crash that has wiped out 4 of a family is only the latest.
VIDEO | All electric cars with an ex-showroom price of Rs 30 lakh or less registered in the national capital will be granted 100 per cent exemption on road tax and registration fees, as the Delhi government approved a new EV policy on Monday.
Under the new policy, people buying e-two-wheelers will get a subsidy of Rs 30,000 in the first year, Rs 20,000 in the second year and Rs 10,000 in the third year.
As part of the policy, only electric autorickshaws will be registered in Delhi from January 1, 2027, while registration of new petrol and CNG two-wheelers will be phased out, with only electric two-wheelers to be registered from April 1, 2028.
Addressing a press conference, Chief Minister Rekha Gupta (@gupta_rekha)vsaid that around Rs 15,000 crore will be invested under the new policy over the next four years to promote electric mobility and reduce vehicular pollution in the national capital.
The policy, approved by the Delhi Cabinet, will come into effect from July 1, the CM said, describing it as a major step towards making Delhi a pollution-free city by March 31, 2030.
(Full video available on PTI Videos - https://t.co/bIyFWTfmBd)
Suppose two cars are traveling on an expressway at 100 km/h with a 50-meter gap.
If the front car slams on its brakes, it takes about 3.5 seconds and nearly 50 meters to stop. If the driver behind does nothing, a collision occurs in exactly 3.5 seconds. This gives the rear driver a 3.5-second window to avoid a crash. For an alert driver, 1 second is reaction time, leaving 2.5 seconds to brake and stop safely.
Now, consider the same 50-meter gap, but the front car is reversing at 10 km/h. For the car approaching from behind at 100 km/h, the closing speed skyrockets to 110 km/h, slashing the time before collision to just 1.6 seconds. In reality, it is even worse: because drivers never expect a vehicle to reverse on an expressway, their brains freeze. Reaction time jumps from 1 second to 2, 3, or more. At high speeds, drivers often crash before even realizing they need to brake.
That's why reversing on an expressway is hundred times more dangerous than a sudden braking. A maneuver that feels slow to the reversing driver creates an unexpectedly violent closing speed for those behind, leaving virtually no time to react.
In the video, a family of seven missed their exit on the Dehradun expressway to Haridwar. They reversed, were struck from behind, and four of them died.
India lost to Ireland in a T20 match after a massive batting collapse. Vaibhav Suryawanshi wasn't playing. Why? Because the team management wanted experienced top-order players.
Arre, what is more important? Experience or current form? You have a beast who is scoring big with a strike rate near 300 every now and then, but you won't play him because 'he lacks experience.' He will only gain experience if you actually give him the chance to play!
Why was he even selected for the team if experience is the deciding factor for the playing XI?