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How Gut Bacteria May Predict Belly Fat

Edit Time Magazine 26 Sep 2016
Part of the problem, says Michelle Beaumont, a research associate at the department of twin research at Kings College, is that while BMI measures weight, it can’t tell whether that weight is from lean muscle or fat tissue ... They analyzed stool samples from more than 1,300 twins as well as analyses of X-ray-based measurements of body fat throughout the body....

Body fat link to bacteria in faeces

Edit BBC News 26 Sep 2016
The make-up of the bacteria found in human faeces may influence levels of dangerous fat in our bodies, say researchers from King's College London ... The research team extracted information from study participants about the human faecal microbiome - the bacteria present in faeces samples - and compared these to six different measures of obesity, including body mass index (BMI) and different types of body fat....

Murder and eviction: the global land rush enters new more violent phase (Oxfam International)

Edit Public Technologies 26 Sep 2016
Seventy-five percent of the more than 1500 land deals sought over the last sixteen years now have contracts and their intended projects are getting up and running, according to new research shared with Oxfam by the watchdog group Land Matrix Initiative ... 'We're entering a new and even more dangerous stage of the global land rush ... to their land....

Corporation takes up land mapping of all 100 wards

Edit The Hindu 26 Sep 2016
But all such initiatives have remained non-starters, with the civic body still unsure of the land in its possession ... After the map study, we conduct field study of the specific area,” Land Use Commissioner A ... We will also get an idea of the private and public lands in the Corporation area and information on the ownership of specific plots,” said Mayor V.K....

Mass transit project moves into fast lane

Edit The Times of India 26 Sep 2016
"The move will speed up the process of land acquisition for this project ... The municipal authority has so far acquired only 30% of the land and completed only 60% of the markings on the route ... The civic body will have to acquire land from private owners for a 16km section, while a 3.88km stretch of the route passes via land owned by the irrigation department....

Floodwaters submerge villages

Edit The Hindu 26 Sep 2016
Oustees of MMD from Chinthalthana village pointed out that they were yet to be paid compensation for their land and the steps for their rehabilitation was yet to be taken up ... bed-room houses to the land oustees of MMD, but the promise remains to be on paper ... Same is the fate of the land oustees of Sripada Yellampalli Project in Karimnagar district....

Six detained for land protest

Edit The Times of India 26 Sep 2016
Bidhannagar Police on Sunday detained six persons from Rajarhat who had assembled at the Ghuni-Jatragachhi area to demand return of their land which was earlier acquired by HIDCO ... According to Nizamuddin, the farmers had ......

12 hurt, 10 arrested in tussle over land

Edit The Times of India 26 Sep 2016
But Daptari claimed a portion of the land is still owned by him and tried to enclose the portion several times," a local resident said.Sources also said, the local Trinamool-run Begampur gram panchyate also tried to settle the dispute, but in vain ... The trouble broke out on Sunday after Daptari and his brother Rouk allegedly hired some armed goons and tried to make a concrete road on the portion (claiming) of the land forcibly....

New rules to make room for open spaces

Edit The Times of India 26 Sep 2016
The open space also called as recreational open space has to be kept free of constructions in the land layout. In the earlier regulations, 10% of the area from the layout of the land size of 4,000 square metre was to kept for open spaces. Now, the new rules make it compulsory for the civic bodies to ensure that 10% of the layout of the land size of 2,000 square metre is kept for open spaces....

Dalits warn of conversion over land grabbing

Edit The Hindu 26 Sep 2016
A section of Dalits from a village have threatened to convert alleging that the Haryana authorities were dily-dallying on taking action against some persons who allegedly ‘illegally occupied’ land given to them, by the State ... But between 2010 to 2014 a number of ......

Creative homemakers pack a healthy meal for 12-year-old kids

Edit The Hindu 26 Sep 2016
Twenty-one teams put their culinary skills to test to prepare a healthy meal box for 12-year-old school-going children at a cookery competition organised by the Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism of Christian Medical College, Vellore ... There should be a balance of low fat, moderate protein, restricted carbohydrate, high fibre, with adequate minerals and vitamins, the release said....

100m link holds up Maduravoyal project

Edit The Times of India 26 Sep 2016
A 100m road remains the missing link in the suspended 56-crore underground sewerage project at Maduravoyal, where the local councillor has stopped work, claiming that he bought the stretch of land five years ago ... Jeevanandham said, "The piece of land changed many hands since 1896 before I finally bought it in 2011 from Vijay Shanthi Builders ... I am ready to give up the piece of land if the corporation offers me a fair compensation."....

Govt's plan to raze illegal buildings goes against BRS

Edit The Times of India 26 Sep 2016
Chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao's statement on razing 28,000 illegal constructions seem to be in clear contradiction of the government's land and buildings regularisation scheme, many experts said ... The scheme gave opportunity to residents of municipalities across the state to apply for regularisation of encroached government lands and illegally-built structures by paying penalties ... More from The Times of India....
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