On the move

Its long time since i got time to write something , something on this blog. All these days I have been on the move and it has been tough to find time to write some thing .

However! Finally at comfort of writing something.

Large amount of things kept going on. Many biggies like general elections in India and other thing.

I always liked to discuss about elections and studied each and every thing about it. Stats, historical perspective of constituencies and so on.

Like everytime, this time too i kept on looking thing. This year my prediction was completely lost

Here is table what i predicted in these general elections    

UPA 223

Congress 180

NDA 170

BJP 120

My prediction went wrong badly about congress. However i felt congress is doing better in UP and this went right, though I thought it will get around 14-17 seats.

I thought BSP will be around 20 and it got 20 seats. I thought BJP could get more seats.

Well I have more things to say about results and that will be done soon.HowH

Dense fog covers Delhi

Hundreds of air and rail passengers were stranded in the bitterly cold national capital on Saturday due to the dense fog that led to numerous flight cancellations and train delays.

As general visibility dropped to 50 metres and runway visibility to 100 metres, 20 domestic flights were cancelled.

"The early morning outbound flights from the Indira Gandhi International Airport were cancelled due to heavy fog. The visibility was far below the required of 150 metres minimum," an airport official said.

"Twenty domestic and eight international flights from here were cancelled and six domestic flights were delayed," he added.

Fog has been affecting the flight movements in the capital since Monday and has led to the delay of more than 500 flights and cancellation of around 75 others since then.

The slew of cancellations and delays has left the passengers wiser with many choosing to travel late in the day.

"I have to go to Mumbai for a friend's marriage. Seeing the weather conditions of the past few days I booked a ticket for an afternoon flight hoping that the fog situation would improve," said Meenakshi Sharma, a PR consultant.

The situation was no better at the city's railway stations, where passengers and their relatives had to wait for hours as over 70 trains were also delayed by an average of more than three hours.

"My daughter was coming by the Goa Express. The train was scheduled to reach Delhi 6.25 a.m. but it was six hours late," said Neeti Arora.

Motorists also had a tough time negotiating the foggy roads of the capital in the morning.

According to meteorological officials, the fog will persist for a few days. The minimum temperature recorded Saturday was 5.4 degrees Celsius, while the maximum was 20.2.

"The minimum and maximum temperatures today (Saturday) were two notches below the normal," a met official said.

"The north-westerly winds blowing over northern India have brought the present spell of chill and will continue in the coming days. The temperature next week is likely to increase as another set of western disturbances is moving in from the hills," he added.

On Friday, Delhi recorded the lowest temperature of the season at a minimum of four degrees Celsius and a maximum of 17.9.

Eat broccoli to avoid breast cancer

Want to cut the risk of developing breast cancer later in life? Well a new research has an advice for women: Eat broccoli.

Earlier studies found that broccoli, along with other cruciferous vegetables, such as kale, cauliflower and cabbage, contain chemicals can prevent a number of different cancers.

Now, an international team has discovered a compound in the veg that vegetable that can actually kill breast cancer cells.

In fact, according to researchers, led by University of California, the remarkable discovery once again highlights the benefit of eating the cancer-busting vegetables to stave off the killer disease, the' Daily Express' reported. They have revealed for the first time how the healing power of these vegetables works in the cells.

The research, published in the latest edition of the'Carcinogenesis' journal, actually found that a compound in broccoli inhibits the rapid growth of tumour cells in a similar way to chemotherapy drug taxol and vincristine, a drug which kills cells that reproduce the fastest. The drugs inhibit cell division during mitosis, the process by which cells split apart and divide.

The study was carried out by Leslie Wilson, Professor of biochemistry and pharmacology, and Mary Ann Jordan, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, at the Universitys Santa Barbara laboratories.

Get large bottom to fight diabetes and heart problems

Researchers believe the type of fat that accumulates around the hips and buttocks, rather than around your stomach, may offer some protection against developing the disease.

But fat that collects around the stomach, known as visceral fat and often resulting in a 'beer belly', can raise a person's risk of diabetes and heart disease.

That means people with pear-shaped bodies, with fat deposits in the buttocks and hips, are likely to be less prone to these disorders, concluded the research at Harvard Medical School.

Scientists believe that the more beneficial fat, called subcutaneous fat because it collects just under the skin, may help to improve sensitivity to the hormone insulin, which regulates blood sugar levels.

Dr Ronald Kahn, who led the research published in Cell Metabolism, said obesity in subcutaneous areas - the 'pear' shape - might decrease risks.

He carried out experiments by artificially switching the two types of fat around the body of mice and seeing what effect it had.

Happy New Year