In yet another case of police insensitivity and indiscipline, Uttar Pradesh policemen were caught on camera sleeping on beds meant for patients in the emergency ward of a hospital in Moradabad.

The video showed a cop who was supposed to be on duty, resting on the bed, while the women patient sleeping on the floor next to the bed. This shocking video went viral on the internet and received a lot of flak for the apathy and mis-use of power by the UP policemen.

Reports claim that patients admitted to the hospital were forced by the cops to sleep on the floor. They even misbehaved with the patients present inside the emergency ward. The cops even threatened the patients who opposed them.

The cops reportedly lashed out at the media when they saw the camera and showed no sign of remorse.

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According to a new research,  Stanford University’s Calming Technology Lab has found that cyclists are 40 per cent less likely to be stressed during and after their commutes compared to those who drove or took public transport.

They looked at data after evaluating the breathing patterns of 1,000 commuters across 20,000 commutes using wearable monitors that track heart rate and the amount and depth of breaths a person takes.

They found people who used motorised transport displayed shallower breathing in the half hour after their journey than cyclists, who were found to be 40% less stressed overall after their commute. It was found that those who cycled arrived to work in a calmer and more relaxed state of mind.

The head of Stanford University’s Calming Technology Lab, Neema Moraveji, said, “People normally think of stress as something that happens at work, and certainly it does, but commutes are interesting because it’s a place where you’re kind of in charge of your environment — you’re usually on your own, in control, and you can set the tone of your day. We wanted to see what kind of state people put themselves in.”

Moraveji said that it wasn’t just after the morning commute where people felt stressed. Levels were also high in the early evening, but again walking or cycling appeared to help.

“It’s particularly interesting to see that many people don’t transition back into the home after a long day of work very well. By biking to work we know that the physical nature of cycling and physical exertion will engender a more calm and focused state of mind. So while being good for us physically, we also see lots of psychological and emotional benefits.”

This research echoes the findings of another study that was completed in the UK last year by the Universtity of East Anglia.

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Gearing up to enter NASA’s New Frontiers planetary science competition, a Virginia based global aerospace company in the US, Northrop Grumman is planning to create an inflatable propeller plane that could cruise the skies of Venus’s atmosphere in 2021.

The plane, that will have almost twice the wingspan of a Boeing 737, is part of the Venus mission concept called Venus Atmospheric Manoeuvrable Platform (VAMP) and its main purpose will be to sample the acidic atmosphere of the planet’s sulfurous skies

It would be flown 50 to 70km above the surface of Venus, in a region of the atmosphere where the pressure is roughly equal to that on Earth. The plane would then be carried to Venus by a spacecraft. The ground temperature on Venus hovers around 460 degrees Celsius and ambient surface pressure is about 90 earth atmospheres.

“Surviving on the surface for any longer than four hours and getting high-resolution data is a challenge,” Constantine Tsang from Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado was quoted as saying.

The company aims for $1 billion in funding from NASA to get its inflatable propeller aircraft off the ground.

06:06

Nepal shut down its only international airport in Kathmandu to big jets after its runway sustained damage from the influx of flights delivering aid.

The main runway was temporarily closed to big planes because of damage. Despite the setback, the UN coordinator for Nepal, Jamie McGoldrick, said the bottlenecks in aid delivery were slowly disappearing.

“I think the problem is there, but it’s actually diminishing,” he said, adding the Nepalese government eased customs and other bureaucratic hurdles on humanitarian aid following complaints from the UN.

“The government has taken note of some of the concerns that we’ve expressed to them and they’ve addressed those both at customs and the actual handling,” he said.

Birendra Shrestha, the manager of Tribhuwan International Airport, located on the outskirts of Kathmandu, said bigger planes were banned because the runway was deteriorating. The runway was built to handle only medium-size jetliners and not the large military and cargo planes that have been flying to the airport since the magnitude-7.8 earthquake struck, he said.

Medium and small-size jets will still be allowed to land, officials said.

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Russia has threatened to block leading U.S social media firms Google, Facebook & Twitter unless they disclose user data in line with the country’s blogging laws. Moscow’s “blogger law” requires that bloggers with more than 3,000 daily readers publish content under their real names and register with the authorities.

Media watchdog Roskomnadzor has contacted these firms and has asked the companies to hand over details of Russian bloggers, as well as censor/remove any content “recognised as extremist information” by the Russian government.

“Such correspondence is regular in dealing with foreign Internet companies. Usually after sending official requests and letters, we can see some positive movements and progress in communication. Roskomnadzor hopes this time all the companies will respond again and will fulfill those requirements, which were asked many times before,” Vadim Ampelonskiy, press-secretary for Roskomnadzor, said.

“If the companies do not pay more attention to Russian government requests for data, we will need to apply sanctions,” Ampelonsky said.

According to Roskomnadzor, because of the encryption technology used by these firms, Russia has no way to block specific content that it finds inappropriate, so they could only do it by blocking access to the entire website.

Facebook publishes government requests for data on its website and says “each and every request we receive is checked for legal sufficiency and we reject or require greater specificity on requests that are overly broad or vague”. Last year, it received two requests from the Russian government and both of were rejected.

Twitter also deals with government requests in the same way and rejected all the 108 requests received from Russia. “We denied several requests to silence popular critics of the Russian government and other demands to limit speech about non-violent demonstrations in Ukraine,” according to a statement on Twitter’s website.

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I was born on a Thursday. Exuberant and 

cheerful. Deep thinker. Good sense of humor. 

Understanding nature. Faithful towards family, friends 

and his love. Easy going, Attractive personality, 

Generous, Amiable, Ambitious.

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