Girls whose mothers are on a diet are almost twice as likely to have an eating disorder, a poll of more than 500 teenagers found today.Many girls say their mother has the biggest influence on their own self-image and they feel damaged by the effects of their mum's dieting and views on food.The survey of 512 teenage girls, with an average age of 14 (age range of 12 to 18) found 6 per cent had an eating...
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to award Malay assemblymen who increase "quota" of wives by wedding single mothers!In a bid to address the problem of single mothers, the Women, Family and Health Committee chairman ofMalaysia's Kelantan state has suggested that those assemblymen who marry single mothers should be awarded.Wan Ubaidah Omar's suggestion drew support from backbenchers, who started thumping their palms on the table.She...
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For the first time, a cathedral in West Bengal has been co-named after Nobel laureate Mother Teresa, a nun who made Kolkata her home and workplace for 68 years caring for the poor and the infirm, and Mother Mary.The Roman Catholic cathedral, inaugurated at Baruipur of neighbouring South 24-Parganas district in West Bengal Thursday, has Mother Mary as the first patron and Mother Teresa as the second...
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Sunita Kumar was Mother Teresa’s closest confidante in Calcutta outside of Mother House. She speaks toMother was in Calcutta since she was 18. Apart from a short visit of a few hours once during the last couple of years of her life, she hadn’t been to Albania. Even when her mother passed away, Mother didn’t go back.Mother is too embedded in us to let her go. How can we let her? She’s OUR Mother. As...
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Indies captain Chris Gayle flew back home from the tour of Australia to attend to his ailing mother.Gayle withdrew from the tour match against Queensland, which began at Allan Border Field Wednesday, just an hour before the toss after hearing the news of his mother being gravely ill and admitted to hospital in Jamaica.Team Manager Joel Garner said that Gayle was granted time off to be with his mother."The...
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Tuesday ordered that a US-born child and his Indian mother be sent back to New York, from where she had brought the child following a legal row over his custody with her divorced husband.Ordering the deportation of both the mother and the child to the US within a fortnight, a bench of Justice Tarun Chatterjee and Justice G.S. Singhvi said the New York family court will take a call on the child's custody.The...
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The Supreme Court Tuesday ordered that a US-born child and his Indian mother be sent back to New York, from where she had brought the child following a legal row over his custody with her divorced husband.Ordering the deportation of both the mother and the child to the US within a fortnight, a bench of Justice Tarun Chatterjee and Justice G. S. Singhvi said the New York family court will take a call...
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Call to award Malay assemblymen who increase 'quota' of wives by wedding single mothers!Kota Baru (Malaysia), Oct. 29 : In a bid to address the problem of single mothers, the Women, Family and Health Committee chairman of Malaysia's Kelantan state has suggested that those assemblymen who marry single mothers should be awarded.Wan Ubaidah Omar’s suggestion drew support from backbenchers, who started...
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Brisbane, Nov 18 : West Indies captain Chris Gayle flew back home from the tour of Australia to attend to his ailing mother.Gayle withdrew from the tour match against Queensland, which began at Allan Border Field Wednesday, just an hour before the toss after hearing the news of his mother being gravely ill and admitted to hospital in Jamaica.Team Manager Joel Garner said that Gayle was granted time...
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Three leopard cubs werefound abandoned at Ganeshapura near Hadikere in Tarikere taluk and was laterrescued by the forest department.The cubs, abandoned by its mother,was spotted by a villager on his way to his farm. He, along with some villagers,immediately informed the range forest officer Jayanna who rushed to the spot andrescued the spotted felony cubs.The forest department staff placedthe cubs...
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