While a high fitness level is already known to have a positive impact on conditions like heart disease, a new study suggests that adults who are more fit have the lowest risk of developing lung and colorectal cancer compared with those who have low fitness levels.


Improving fitness can help you cut cancer risk


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Indicating that development of sexual orientation continues long past adolescence into adulthood, new research has found attraction towards the same or opposite sex can change over time.


Sexual attitude continues to evolve well into late 20s


An advertisement campaign, run by waterproofing solutions provider Dr. Fixit and featuring Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan, has become the latest target of meme makers on social media.


Ad featuring Bachchan sparks online meme fest


While people gossip 52 minutes a day on average in 16 waking hours, women don't engage in "tear-down" gossip any more than men, reveals an interesting study.


People gossip for average 52 minutes a day


Staying physically active in midlife depends a lot on your overall satisfaction with life or mental wellbeing a decade earlier, not just your physical health, suggests new research.


Staying active in midlife may depend on mental wellbeing


Heart patients who exercise regularly and have better fitness are likely to have less cognitive impairment, says a study. Fitter patients have better memory, it adds.


Exercise helps boost heart failure patients' memory


Facebook is facing criticism from breast cancer survivors after the social network banned an ad campaign run by an Australian breast cancer non-profit, citing nudity rules.


FB slammed for banning breast cancer non-profit's ads


This World Press Freedom Day (May 3), educate yourselves on two buzzwords key to those who present news to you: censorship and freedom of expression; Trace the rise of television journalism and what it is now, in the words of a veteran journalist; And finally, learn why women must, and can, overcome people-pleasing.


Of press freedom and confident women (IANS Books This Weekend)


Actor-filmmaker Farhan Akhtar feels that communication and messaging are important when a filmmaker tells a story irrespective of the medium.


Communication, messaging important for Farhan Akhtar


Living with a smoker after age 20 is associated with a 15 per cent greater risk of developing high blood pressure, warn researchers, adding that avoiding smoky environments can reduce the risk of hypertension.


Avoid passive smoking at home and workplace to cut BP


Living up to the 'summer vibes', actor Arjun Rampal and his girlfriend Gabriella Demetriades were seen twinning in shades of white.


Arjun, Gabriella Demetriades twin in white


Whether you choose a dark roast coffee or hoppy beer in the summer, it may actually depend on how the drink makes you feel rather than how it tastes, reveals a genome-based study.


Decoded: Why people love to have coffee or beer


Star couple Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma have been roped in as the first official brand ambassadors of Flipkart-owned ecommerce platform, Myntra.


Virat, Anushka bag new brand endorsement


The winners represent individuals who have best embraced Instagram, by using its Stickers, Stories, Feed, Live and IGTV

Priyanka, Deepika win Instagrammers of the Year

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In keeping with the election season, Reliance Entertainment's Zapak in association with Zhakaas Games has launched a 'Kaun Banega Pradhan Mantri' mobile game in the midst of the Lok Sabha elections.


Now a mobile game called 'Kaun Banega Pradhan Mantri'


American singer-actress Jennifer Lopez, American baseball star Alex Rodriguez, Indian celebrity Malaika Arora and Zumba Fitness LLC have come together to invest in an Indian yoga and wellness start-up called SARVA.


JLo, Malaika invest in Indian yoga, wellness start-up


Eating a handful of walnuts daily may lower the risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD), says a study.


Eating walnuts daily lowers heart disease risk


Mental health problems are more common in people living alone regardless of age and sex, says a study.


Living alone ups risk of mental disorders


Suicide attempts by poisoning among youngsters have more than doubled, and more than tripled for girls and young women in the last one decade in the US, says a study.


Suicide attempts by poisoning on rise among US youth


Actress Malaika Arora's gym outfit spelt out 'love'.


Malaika flaunts 'love' for Arjun?


Years after being asked to step aside from a photoshoot for being "dark" and a "little overweight", Shaheen Bhatt, elder sister of Bollywood actress Alia Bhatt, continues to find it emotionally crippling.

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