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SHE is another shining example of triumph over adversity! For 15-year-old Bhavani Kedia, life has been a struggle ever since she was born a premature baby, weighing just 700 grams. On incubator for 40 days, she even battled for life. But thanks to her mother Madhu's untiring efforts, Bhavani is on her feet and playing the game she loves the most. And after six years into tennis training under the tutelage of Praveen Bhargava at Ace Tennis Academy, Bhavani is on cloud nine after making it to the World Deaf Team Tennis Championship to be held in Antalya (Turkey) this September. The youngster earned this privilege by finishing second in the national selection trials held in Chennai recently. Bhavani defeated Parul Gupta of Punjab, Kirit Lata of Haryana and then lost to Shaikh Jafreen from Kurnool, in the top four league of the trials. Bhavani, a first year Intermediate student at DB Girls College, is grateful to Ravichandran, Bhaskar Reddy, Naidu and Amit Kumar among for their sup...

Particulate matter that exists as fine dust in the air can lead to an increased risk of diabetes, particularly in low-income countries such as India. Analysis of the burden of pollution-linked diabetes (in the journal, Lancet Planetary Health ) estimates that in 2016, air pollution resulted in as many as 3.2 million new cases of diabetes. This is 14% of all new diabetes cases for that year, and India's share was 20% of new cases. Annually, the researchers estimated that pollution-linked diabetes caused more than 2 lakh deaths in 2016. Even though previous studies had shown a significant impact of air pollution on diabetes, the burden of the disease had yet to be quantified. After studying over 17 lakh American veterans for around 9 years, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine and VA St. Louis Health Care System in the U.S., showed that the risk of incident diabetes increased with rising concentrations of PM2.5 (fine dust less than 2.5 microns in diameter), even ...

This refers to a seismic law which states that there is a constant empirical relationship between the frequency of earthquakes in a region and their magnitudes. According to Danish physicist Per Bak who explained the law in his 1996 book, How Nature Works ; for every 1,000 earthquakes of magnitude 4, for instance, there are 100 earthquakes of magnitude 5, 10 earthquakes of magnitude 6 and so on. The law has been used to argue that seemingly unpredictable events actually follow a simple pattern. It was formulated by American seismologists Charles Francis Richter and Beno Gutenberg in their 1956 paper, "Magnitude and energy of earthquakes". -- Challapalli Srinivas Chakravarthy -- ---------------------------------------------------------------