LIFESTYLE

Numerous health advantages can be obtained from cold water. In addition to offering respite from the intense heat, a cold water bath has several health benefits. Cold water treatment or cold hydrotherapy are common terms used to describe taking a shower with cold water. Your circulation may be enhanced by the constricting effect of cold water on your blood vessels. Your blood vessels widen when you warm up afterwards, which improves blood flow and increases the amount of oxygen that reaches every part of your body. Frequent exposure to cold water can increase white blood cell production, which strengthens your immune system's defenses against illnesses and infections. This lowers your chance of getting sick by strengthening your body's natural defenses. Because cold water tightens pore...

A Meghalaya Civil Defence and Home Guards personnel, Ribok Dkhar Sawian (34), was found dead under mysterious circumstances in Guwahati on Thursday. While the circumstances or the reasons behind his death remains unconfirmed, Deputy Chief Minister Prestone Tynsong on Friday said Sawian might have died of cardiac arrest. “According to the information we received, he came out of the place of work and more or less he got a heart attack although it has not been confirmed,” Tynsong said. Sawian, who hailed from Mawryngkneng in East Khasi Hills, was attending a training with 21 others on basic disaster management at the first NDRF battalion, Changsari camp, Guwahati. The deceased was posted at the Disaster Training Centre of Home Guards, East Khasi Hills and was about to complete five years ...

A total of six individuals have been arrested in connection with the food poisoning incident in a Karnataka hostel that claimed the lives of two students from Meghalaya and left 22 students hospitalised. Commissioner and Secretary of Home department, Cyril VD Diengdoh, who visited Mandya under government directives, confirmed the arrests. The Meghalaya government has instructed the concerned deputy commissioners to release an ex-gratia of Rs 3 lakh to the families of the two boys who tragically lost their lives. “The students were admitted to the Mandya Institute of Medical Sciences, where they are under treatment. Initially, three students were in the ICU; as of today, only one remains in critical care, while the rest are in stable condition.  The hospital authorities are taking ...

Ahmedabad, Pune and Kolkata were the most affordable housing markets in the first half of 2024, as per a Knight Frank India report that actually analysed the country’s top eight cities. Actually Mumbai was the least affordable housing market. The reports affordability index actually tracks the proportion of income a household requires to fund a housing unit’s EMI in a particular city. Today getting a house in India is very important and it can be actually very costly. As we know in country like India population is actually growing in fast pace and it is creating many challenges to the people. With this getting a shelter for people can be very difficult as it can be very costly especially in big cities. In fact it is very important for any country to provide basic needs to its people so...