Five Persons Were Sentenced Life Imprisonment Over Keeping 6.5 Gramms Of Heroin In Their Possession

Colombo High Court has today(09) sentenced five persons who had found guilty over keeping 6.5 Grammes of Heroin in possession ,a life imprisonment .

The accused were arrested by the Police on 11th of August 1996 with the haul of Heroin in  their possession during a raid carried out in Maligawatte area.

The Attorney General has filed an indictments against the accused in Colombo High Court.

Tests Confirmed The 40,000 Metric Tonnes Of Petrol Brought By UAE Oil Carrier Is In Good Quality-Pumping Of Petrol In The Carrier Has Been Commenced

Tests had confirmed that the 40,000 metric tonnes of Petrol  brought to the country by United Arab Emirates  Oil carrier "Neverska Lady" which arrived in last night(08) is in good condition according to the Petroleum Corporation sources.

 Soon after the Oil carrier has  arrived in Muthurajawala Buoy ,Petroleum Corporation has sent a team   to test the quality of the Oil brought by the carrier.As the lab tests confirmed that  the Petrol samples taken from the carrier are in good  quality The  authorities have given approval to the pumping of the Stock of Petrol.

The pumping of the Petrol in the carrier to the Fuel storage facility in Muthurajawela has already commenced and it will be distributed to Oil filling stations from tonight  the Petroleum Corporation officials have said.

Exercise DOES Lower Alzheimer's Risk:

Exercise does lower your risk of Alzheimer's, scientists claim after finding a link between poor heart health and memory issues. 

A new study by Vanderbilt University Medical Center found older people whose hearts pump less blood have restricted blood flow in the temporal lobe, the region where dementia pathology first begins.

Those with the worst fitness and heart health had brains that appeared 20 years older than they should be. Experts warn the findings should be a red flag to everybody to exercise at least 30 minutes five times a week to improve their chances of avoiding the crippling neuro degenerative disease.  

We currently know a lot about how to prevent and medically manage many forms of heart disease, but we do not yet know how to prevent or treat Alzheimer's disease,' said lead author Dr Angela Jefferson, director of the Vanderbilt Memory & Alzheimer's Center. 

'This research is especially important because it may help us leverage our knowledge about managing heart health to address and treat risk factors for memory loss in older adults before cognitive symptoms develop.'

The study, published online today in Neurology, involved 314 people with an average age of 73 who were all part of the Vanderbilt Memory & Aging Project, a longitudinal study that will continue to track their health and cognitive abilities.Around a third (39 percent) had mild cognitive impairment, which increases the risk of Alzheimer's.The rest had normal cognitive function.

The researchers used echocardiography to measure their heart blood flow, and MRI scanning to see how much and how freely blood was flowing to the brain.  They found poor heart health could age the brain by up to 20 years

One way to put these results into a meaningful context is to define how one year of aging relates to blood flow in the brain,' Dr Jefferson said.

 

'Then, we compare the effect of one year of aging to the effect of lower cardiac index. When we do that, we find that the effect of cardiac index on blood flow in the temporal lobes corresponds to 15 to 20 years of age.' Dr Jefferson said the study suggests that as we age we need to do more to aid blood flow in the brain, and the more exercise we do the lower our dementia risk appears to be.

'It is now clear from a growing body of research evidence that there is a strong connection between heart health and brain health,' said Dr Maria Carrillo, Alzheimer's Association Chief Science Officer.

'We are pleased to have provided the initial seed funding for this intriguing science that is beginning to identify and investigate the mechanisms behind that connection. 'Those mechanisms, once confirmed, may hold the key to effective treatments and prevention strategies for Alzheimer's disease and other dementia's.'(Daily Mail Health)

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Toxic Smog Chokes New Delhi

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48 Hour Rail Strike Had Called Off

The 48 hour Rail strike scheduled to be launched by

three catogaries belonging to the Railway department with effect from  midnight yesterday (08) has been called off by the Railway trade unions.

The strike was called off following the discussions held between Railway trade unions and  Deputy transport minister and Prime Minister's secretary regarding the salary anomalies of the three catagories of Rail workers, Train drivers,Rail guards and Station Masters.

THE MOVIE TRAILER OF " LASANDA" SINHALA FILM(1974)

MAIN CAST OF THE FILM-NITA FERNANDO,THISSA WIJESURENDRA,LATE DOMMIE JAYAWARDANE,FREDDIE SILVA,SHANTHI LEKHA