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2-drug combo 5x more effective than single pill for hypertension—findings from crucial trial in India

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Trial in India finds 2-drug combinations 5 times more effective than single pill in controlling hypertension

Amlodipine & perindopril, amlodipine & indapamide, and perindopril & indapamide achieved blood pressure control in 70 percent of patients to less than 140/90 mm Hg in six months , reports Sumi Sukanya Dutta. 

Meghalaya CM and NPP chief Conrad Sangma wrote to BJP national president Nadda conveying party’s decision. NPP local unit says ‘will go as per the wishes of the people in Manipur’, report Karishma Hasnat and Noren Ningombam.

How experiments at Karnataka’s Kolar Gold Fields are last remaining piece of India’s neutrino legacy

The first groundbreaking finding was in 1965, with the world’s first atmospheric neutrino detection. Since the labs began closing in 1993, efforts to advance research have failed, reports Sandhya Ramesh from Bengaluru.

Declared ‘tankhaiya’, Badal steps down as Akali Dal chief. What his resignation means

Elected Akali Dal president twice since 2008, Sukhbir Badal was declared ‘tankhaiya’ by Akal Takht in August. SAD insiders say resignation is a preemptive measure. Read this report by Chitleen K Sethi.

India needs a full-time Home Minister. No more puppet BJP president, please

Amit Shah is a 24×7 workaholic. Yet, he is only human. That should explain the lapses in Manipur or elsewhere, writes DK Singh in ThePrint Politically Correct.

Khaled Ahmed was the only Pakistani I knew who didn’t say ‘but what about Kashmir?’

Khaled Ahmed was an editor, author, linguist, newsroom mentor, and a rare genuinely secular agnostic, probably atheist—definitely the only such I have met among my many Muslim friends. And he was no Leftist either. Read this piece by Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief ThePrint.

Yunus leading Bangladesh to new crossroads—being a bankrupt Islamic Republic of East Pakistan

Bangladesh has spiralled into a vortex of instability and stands today as a banana republic led by a puppet government, writes Meenakshi Lekhi.

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