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When you monitoring blood pressure, which number is most important — top, bottom, or both?

New Delhi, October 25, 2023: Blood pressure is the force that moves blood through the circulatory system. It is an important force because oxygen and nutrients would not be pushed around the circulatory system to nourish tissues and organs without blood pressure. Blood pressure is also vital because it delivers white blood cells and antibodies for immunity and hormones such as insulin. Just as important as providing oxygen and nutrients, the fresh blood that gets delivered is able to pick up the toxic waste products of metabolism, including the carbon dioxide we exhale with every breath and the toxins we

Maratha quota: Activist Manoj Jarange launches indefinite fast over demand as ‘deadline’ he set before govt ends

Mumbai, Oct 25 (PTI) As the 40-day deadline he set before the Maharashtra government to implement Maratha quota came to an end, activist Manoj Jarange on Wednesday launched his indefinite fast to press for the demand for quota to the community. Forty-year-old Jarange, who has brought back the Maratha quota issue to the centre stage in the state, began his stir at his native Antarwali Sarati village in Jalna district. Speaking to reporters before launching the fast, he said, “Maharashtra Chief Minister (Eknath Shinde) had asked me to wait for 40 days to make a decision on the Maratha reservation.

RBI nudges reluctant lenders to raise savings deposit rates

MUMBAI, Oct 25 (Reuters) – RBI is keen that banks pass on the benefits of higher interest rates to account holders by raising the rates they offer on savings’ deposits, but lenders are pushing back in a bid to bolster margins, several banking sources said. Savings accounts are low interest rate-bearing deposits offered by Indian banks, forming a third of their total deposits. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), which has increased the policy repo rate by 250 basis points to 6.50% in the last fiscal year, wants to ensure a more complete transmission of monetary policy, a source familiar

“Centre using senior officers for propaganda not right”, says Congress chief Kharge

Kalaburgi (Karnataka) [India], October 25 (ANI): Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday hit out at the Bharatiya Janta Party-led Centre over its “saturation drive” saying that the government deploying senior officers for propaganda of their programs is not right and has never happened before. As per a purported government order, dated October 18, under the Centre’s saturation drive senior bureaucrats will be deployed as “Rath Prabharis” across the country to showcase the achievements of the 9 years of the government. The Congress chief wrote a letter to PM Modi on Sunday urging him to withdraw the order immediately. “I wrote

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