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Washington, Sept 30 : Researchers have discovered that uveitis, an inflammatory eye disease may be treated with a compound that blocks the action of aldose reductase, an enzyme essential to the production of inflammatory signaling molecules.

Uveitis, the inflammation of the uvea, a layer of tissue that lies just below the outer surface of the eyeball and includes the iris, is a condition that can be caused by both autoimmune and infectious diseases.

Washington, Sept 30 : Italian researchers have found that as many as 50 percent of overweight men and women with high blood pressure may have hypertension as a result of being overweight, and not obese.

The researchers reported the study at the American Heart Association’s 61st Annual Fall Conference of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research.

Mumbai: Sir Ben Kingsley, British actor will act as Mughal ruler Shah Jahan who built up the Taj Mahal in memory of his loving wife, Mumtaz Mahal.

Bollywood splendor Aishwarya Rai will play the emperor’s wife Mumtaz Mahal, upon whose death the distressed king made the Taj in 1648.

“The movie is on the building of the Taj Mahal,” Kingsley said, adding up the romance will also take in Shah Jahan’s abject loneliness for years in a jail house.

West Bengal Pradesh Congress has requested Mr. Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi to take action against the comments of a radio jockey about Indian Idol winner Prashant Tamang.

New Delhi: For the week ended September 15, inflation rate eased further to 3.23 per cent, as compared to 3.32 per cent in the previous week, primarily because of falling pices of fruits and vegetables, milk, pulses and a few manufactured items.

In the corresponding week of the previous year (2006), the wholesale price-based index stood at 5.27 per cent.

Hyderabad: Sunita Williams said that the earth is a borderless unit, and experiencing it could alter people perceptual knowledge. While talking to the pupils and media-persons at the 58th International Astronautical Congress in Hyderabad, She said, “When you are in space, what hits you is the futility of drawing maps and marking boundaries.