Kapalbhati is a part of Pranayam kriya where one forcefully exhales rapidly and in short bursts. Practitioners claim that it helps in cleaning lungs and in exercising the abdomen muscles. It is, therefore, recommended for reducing tummy fat.


Detoxifying the brain through Kapalbhati (Health Tips)


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Celebrity interior designer Gauri Khan has joined hands with Pride of Cows for a limited edition bottle for the premium milk brand's seventh anniversary celebration.


Gauri Khan collaborates with premium milk brand


Preparations for the Delhi government's drive to plant five lakh saplings at 600 locations here on September 8 was reviewed at a meeting with officials and other stakeholders by Environment and Forest Minister Imran Hussain on Wednesday.


Delhi Minister reviews preparations for plantation drive


The Competition Commission of India (CCI) on Wednesday ordered an inquiry into unfair practices by super-specialty hospitals in Delhi in respect of healthcare products and services provided to in-patients.


CCI to probe unfair practices by Delhi's super-speciality hospitals


Swedish home furnishing retailer IKEA on Wednesday announced it has stopped selling vegetarian biryani and samosa at its store here following an incident last week in which a customer found a foreign object in a dish.


IKEA stops selling biryani, samosa after complaint


Former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland will visit Delhi's Mohalla Clinics on Friday, the Delhi government said on Wednesday.


Former UN chief to visit Mohalla Clinics


Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb said on Wednesday that Tripura was a "hub of drug supplies" to other states during the previous Left Front government's rule.


Tripura was drug-supply hub during Left rule: CM


To cut down use of plastic water bottles, BJP leader Shazia Ilmi on Tuesday inaugurated water ATMs in New Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) areas that would dispense safe drinking water 24X7 at an affordable cost.


Shazia Ilmi inaugurates water ATMs in NDMC areas


Discussions at one of India's first women's health festivals touched on issues about gender and health, and created space for a public discourse on women's well-being at the National Crafts Museum here.


Gender, women's health discussed at National Crafts Museum festival


Kerala was put on high alert for three weeks as two more people succumbed to rat fever on Monday, taking the death toll to nine in the past three days following unprecedented floods.


Rat fever: High alert as Kerala toll rises


Former Union Minister and PMK leader Anbumani Ramadoss on Monday demanded a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the organ transplant scam in Tamil Nadu.


CBI probe needed in organ transplant scam: PMK


Actress Priyanka Chopra, who suffers from asthma, has partnered with Cipla Respiratory to create awareness about the condition and break the stigma surrounding its treatment. She has advocated timely intervention that can help one have a better quality of life.


Priyanka Chopra advocates timely intervention for asthma


Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday inaugurated the Fakir Mohan Medical College and Hospital at Balasore.


Fakir Mohan Medical College and Hospital inaugurated in Odisha


The Delhi government has ordered the restoration of 2.53 lakh ration cards in the national capital and warned officers that they will be 'personally responsible' for starvation deaths of eligible beneficiaries.


Delhi orders restoration of over 2.5 lakh ration cards


In a shocking incident, at least 14 dead bodies of newborn babies, wrapped in plastic bags, were recovered from a deserted ground in south Kolkata's Haridebpur on Sunday, police said.


Bodies of 14 newborn babies found at Kolkata ground


A woman on Sunday became the latest victim of leptospirosis in the flood-battered Kerala, taking the death toll due to the rat fever outbreak to 15 even as Health Minister K.K. Shailaja assured that there was no need to panic.


Woman dies of rat fever in flood-hit Kerala


Alarmed over rising air pollution in south Indian cities, especially in Bengaluru, environment experts have called for greater awareness and solutions to check the menace, particularly indoors.


Experts for solutions to check rising air pollution in Bengaluru


Chinese patients are expected to be able to buy 14 kinds of cancer drugs at a lower price from September, according to China's state medical insurance administration.


Chinese patients to get cheaper cancer drugs from Sep


Three persons have been arrested for cheating gullible people out of money by promising them cures for chronic and terminal diseases through homemade medicines, police said on Friday.


Three held for conning people through homemade medicines


Two Indian nationals, Bharat Vatwani and Sonam Wangchuk, on Friday were given the Ramon Magsaysay award, popularly known as Asia's Nobel Prize.


Two Indians receive Magsaysay awards


With the flood rescue operations now over, health authorities in Kerala on Friday asked all those who came in contact with the flood waters to take preventive action for leptospirosis, mostly spread by rodents.

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