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IAS officer Veera Rana gets additional charge of MP chief secretary

Bhopal, Nov 30 (PTI) The Madhya Pradesh government on Wednesday night decided to give the additional charge of chief secretary to senior IAS officer Veera Rana, a senior official said. The 1988-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer is currently posted as chairperson of the Madhya Pradesh Board of Secondary Education and also holds the additional charge of the state’s agriculture production commissioner. Rana, who will take charge of the new assignment on Thursday, will be only the second woman bureaucrat in Madhya Pradesh’s history to function as chief secretary, a state’s top bureaucratic post. IAS officer Nirmala Buch had the

Coronary heart disease in middle-aged people at risk of dementia in later life

LONDON, Nov. 30 (UPI) – People diagnosed with coronary heart disease in early middle age are at much higher risk of developing dementia in later life than people with healthy hearts, according to a Chinese study of more than 400,000 Britons published Wednesday. Men and women who develop heart disease early, particularly those under 45, have a 36% increased risk of developing dementia, a 13% increased risk of Alzheimer’s and are 78% more likely to develop vascular dementia — brain impairment caused by oxygen and nutrient deprivation, according to the research published in Journal of the American Heart Association. By

Indian economy expected to sustain strong growth amid global gloom

NEW DELHI, Nov 30 (Reuters) – Indian economy is likely to continue its strong growth in the quarter to end of September, helped by a solid urban consumption and government spending, outpacing a slowing global economy squeezed by elevated interest rates and higher energy prices. Asia’s third-largest economy is expected to grow at 6.8% in the July-September quarter compared with a year earlier, according to a Reuters poll. India will release the quarterly gross domestic product figures at 1200 GMT on Thursday. India’s is seen as the bright spot globally as some Western countries are flirting with the possibility of

Common headaches linked to neck pain: Research

Chicago [US], November 29 (ANI): According to a study presented at the annual conference of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), researchers discovered empirical evidence of how the neck muscles are implicated in primary headaches. The discoveries may lead to better treatments. The distinct underlying causes of primary headaches are still not fully understood. The most common primary headaches are tension-type headaches and migraines. “Our imaging approach provides first objective evidence for the very frequent involvement of the neck muscles in primary headaches, such as neck pain in migraine or tension-type headache, using the ability to quantify subtle inflammation

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