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Tuesday, November 25, 2025
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Topic: Muscle

Move over semaglutide, new drug on the horizon promises to melt only fat, not muscle

Obesity drugs like Ozempic have been global smash-hits, but loss of muscle mass along with fat is a worry. Now, a promising new drug called HS235 has got doctors excited.

Loss of muscle is disturbing sign of ageing. Here’s how even amateurs can retain it after 30

Muscle loss is associated with a myriad of health problems, including higher risk of diabetes and even dementia. Here's how you can avoid that.

Bodybuilding in NCR goes high on fake steroids in search of quick abs

Anabolic or androgenic steroids are synthetic derivatives of testosterone. Noida police recently arrested three people with fake steroids worth Rs 2 crore.

How often should we exercise to get in shape?

Weight training or running — improvements only happen with a combination of recovery and repetition.

The three Khan films that started Indian middle-class men’s love for abs, pecs and biceps

In ‘Muscular India’, Michiel Baas writes that it took 3 movies and a magazine to popularise a new body ideal among Indian men. And it was very different from the pehlwan body type.

On Camera

Worker exploitation powers the firework industry in Tamil Nadu’s Sivakasi

For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.

172 countries & counting, India looks to hit new record in rice exports. But there’s a flip side

The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.

India and France to jointly manufacture HAMMER air-to-surface missile

Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.