Sandeshkhali: The BJP-led rally in West Bengal will begin on February 27 and will last till the evening of February 29.

Sandeshkhali: The West Bengal unit of the BJP is planning a three-day dharna marathon in Kolkata from February 27, along with a few women from Sandeshkhali. The party plans to launch protests on the lines of the Nandigram movement, which ended the Left Front’s rule in the state. Suvendu Adhikari was the key figure behind organizing the Nandigram movement as the then Trinamool Congress leader and the BJP leadership now want to use his experience to corner the Mamata Banerjee government.

The women have been protesting in Sandeshkhali for quite some time now, accusing associates of local Trinamool Congress leaders of sexual harassment and violence against them. The demonstration starts on February 27 and lasts until the evening of February 29.

Top BJP leaders take part in demonstration

BJP state president Dr Sukanta Majumdar and Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari will lead the rally along with other senior leaders of the party. The location of the demonstration will be the base of Mahatma Gandhi’s statue in central Kolkata. The decision on this count was taken at a special meeting of the BJP’s state committee convened on Friday morning to finalize the party’s strategy for the Sandeshkhali crisis in the coming days.

“There are clear instructions from the party’s central committee to explore all possible avenues and make every effort to organize movements against the state government and the ruling dispensation over the Sandeshkhali issue.

“There are also instructions to organize movements involving victims, especially the protesting women there. At this point, the idea of ​​organizing a three-day marathon sit-in demonstration involving the protesting women of Sandeshkhali was mooted and accepted,” said a member of the state committee of the BJP.

Meanwhile, party insiders said there are clear instructions from the central leadership that the movement on the Sandeshkhali crisis between 2007 and 2009 should be organized on the lines of the movement against land acquisition in Nandigram in East Midnapore district.

History of the Nandigram Movement

The Nandigram movement is believed to have played a key role in ending the 34-year rule of the Left Front. Notably, Subhendu Adhikari joined the BJP before the 2021 Vidhan Sabha polls and in that election, he was elected from Nandigram after defeating Trinamool Congress candidate and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who went on to be elected in the twin elections from the Bhabanipur Assembly constituency. . Therefore, the BJP leadership now wants to use Adhikari’s successful experience in organizing the Nandigram movement for a movement in Sandeshkhali.

(With input from agencies)

Shares of Gensol Engineering Limited rose 2.61 percent to hit the day's high of Rs 1365.90. It is also 3.9% away from its 52-week high of Rs 1377.1.

Share market news: Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty registered marginal gains in early trade on Wednesday as Asian markets witnessed mixed trends and investors waited for signals from the US Federal Reserve on the interest rate trajectory. The 30-share Sensex rose 60.05 points or 0.08 per cent to 73,117.45 points, while the broader Nifty rose 21.65 points or 0.1 per cent to 22,218.60 points. In the Sensex pack, 17 stocks were in the green, and among the Nifty stocks, 29 were trading with gains.

Amid this, shares of Gensol Engineering Limited rose 2.61 percent to hit the day's high of Rs 1365.90. It is also 3.9% away from its 52-week high of Rs 1377.1.

On technical parameters, Gensol Engineer stock is trading higher than the 5-day, 20-day, 50-day, 100-day and 200-day moving averages.

According to data available on the BSE, the stock has given a multi-bag return of 315 percent in one year. In two years, the counter shows a positive return of 1349 percent.

While JSW Steel rose over 2 percent, Mahindra & Mahindra, Tata Steel and Bharti Airtel rose over 1 percent in early deals.

Earlier, Asian markets witnessed mixed trends, with Hong Kong's Hang Seng and China's SSE Composite Index posting gains, while Japan's Nikkei 225 traded near flat.

European markets closed mixed on Tuesday. Sensex remained in the positive territory for the sixth straight session on Tuesday, rising 349.24 points to close at 73,057.40 points, while Nifty rose 74.70 points to end the day at 22,196.95 points.

Disclaimer: The article is for information purposes only and not for investment advice.

Rajat Patidar is likely to feature in the second Test match against England.

New Delhi: India's young batsman Rajat Patidar got a maiden call-up in the Test squad against England and now there are chances that the batsman will play his debut match in the 2nd Test as Ravindra Jadeja and KL Rahul are out of the second clash due to injuries.

BCCI has announced their replacements as Sarfaraz Khan, Sourabh Kumar and Washington Sundar. This is the first Test call-up for Sarfaraz, the batsman has been in deadly form in the Ranji Trophy.

While talking to BCCI, Rajat Patidar revealed that he always tries to follow Kohli; his footwork and body moments while playing ball are great.

“I always observe Virat Kohli. His footwork and body movement are great. I always try to follow him,” Rajat Patidar said on BCCI TV.

Patidar also revealed how Rohit Sharma boosted his confidence.

“I have spoken to Rohit Bhai during this tour, it has boosted my confidence. I watch how he handles field position.”

The Madhya Pradesh batsman is yet to make his debut in the longest format of the game and has represented India in 1 ODI so far, playing against South Africa in 2023.

Lately my workouts have been looking a little strange: I'm slithering like a lizard, crawling like a bear, and crawling like a crab. It's called quadrupedal motion training (or animal movement) and is taken from TikTok (the related hashtag #primalmovement has 2.4 billion views).

At first glance, the workouts seem a bit strange – more like an audition for Gollum in “Lord of the Rings” than a workout. But are they effective?

Proponents say the exercise targets muscles often neglected by other workouts, and that moving your arms and legs diagonally across the body (rather than, say, running, where they simply move forward and back in line) is important is for building resilient joints and body awareness. .

To put animal movement to the test, I collected some common exercises and tried them four times a week for a month. This is what I learned.

How it works and feels

There is a lot of overlap between animal relocation and more established practices such as yoga, Pilates And dancewhich strive for improve balance And core poweras well as enlarging the joints mobility and stability, said Dr. Sachin Allahabadi, an orthopedic surgeon in Houston who sometimes warms up with “bear crawls” before HIIT sessions.

But research specifically on animal movement is still limited. A small study found it lights up about the same number of calories as a comparable duration of other moderate aerobic exercise, such as a game of doubles tennis. Another suggests that it improves coordination and hip and shoulder flexibility, which is especially important as we get older.

Initially, I found the workouts were uncomfortable and required intense focus: what was my right hand doing and where was my left foot? But after a few weeks they started to feel familiar, almost like dancing. It also made me move in ways I rarely had, even in a yoga class, challenging my shoulders and arms. And while a 30-minute session doesn't have the power of a 10km run, I was certainly panting as if I'd hiked a series of hills.

But it's not a panacea: it can get repetitive, and to maintain (or build) muscle mass, you'll need to add resistance training. It's also hard to do while watching Netflix.

In the future, I'll use animal motion to break down long stretches at my desk, like Jeffrey Buxton, an exercise scientist at Grove City College, does. Or I sprinkle it into circuit training workouts – a round of crab walks to replace jumpers, for example. “It is an accessible exercise and meets many requirements,” said Dr. Buxton.

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Published: 08:07 EST, January 26, 2024 | Updated: 10:26 EST, January 26, 2024

Crystal Hefner says late husband Hugh Hefner would 'absolutely not' have survived the #MeToo movement.

“I've been thinking about this because #MeToo happened literally a month after his death,” she told the newspaper Daily email on Wednesday, January 24. “He left Earth just in time.”

Hugh died in September 2017 at the age of 91, just a month before the sexual abuse allegations Harvey Weinstein was made public and sparked a movement of women sharing their experiences of sexual violence. (Weinstein, 71, is currently in prison after being found guilty on charges of rape and sexual assault.)

Hugh founded Playboy magazine in 1953. The publication eventually expanded into an entire brand, including the Playboy Bunnies and their residence at the Playboy Mansion.

“I feel like the mansion was so unique and couldn't be replicated,” Crystal continued. “It was a weird social experiment at the time, but I don't know how he would have coped during #MeToo.”

Although several former Playboy Bunnies – including Crystal – have spoken candidly about their experiences at the mansion, Crystal made it clear that she “never [Hef] like a predator.” That said, she admitted she was “scared” about having sex alone with Hugh.

“He was used to some kind of show, some kind of circus up there,” Crystal said Daily email, referring to his bedroom. “So, just me? That is not enough. It's easy to feel like you're not enough there.”

Crystal met Hugh at a Halloween party at the mansion in 2008, when she was 21. She moved into the Los Angeles home soon after, and on Christmas Eve in 2010, Hugh gave her a ring as a proposal. They briefly broke up before finally walking down the aisle on New Year's Eve in 2012. The two were still married when Hugh died five years later.

On Tuesday, January 23, Crystal released her memoir, Only say good things: Surviving Playboy and finding myselfwhich detailed her life as a Playboy Bunny.

“Life in the country house was not the fairy tale I had ever hoped for,” she wrote. “From the outside, of course, it had everything of a fairy tale. But that wasn't the case, and everyone who lived there knew it.”

When describing her and Hugh's marriage, Crystal admitted that she was “never in love” with the media mogul.

“I loved this old man the way you're supposed to love your parents,” she continued. “The way you're supposed to love someone who is nearing the end of a long and complicated life.”

When Hugh Hefner passed away in September 2017 at the age of 91, no one could have predicted that less than a month later, the #MeToo movement swept through Hollywood, exposing years of sexual abuse by some of the industry's most high-profile men.

The late founder of Playboy magazine, who held sex parties at the historic LA mansion where he lived from 1971 until his death, would certainly not have survived if he had lived any longer, according to his third and last wife, Crystal Hefner. .

In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, Crystal said her husband died 'just in time' – adding that the mansion would 'absolutely not' have survived the powerful #MeToo movement.

“I've been thinking about this because #MeToo happened literally a month after his death. He left Earth just in time,” said Crystal, who released her memoir Only say good things: Surviving Playboy on Tuesday – said.

“I feel like the mansion was so unique and couldn't be replicated. It was a weird social experiment at the time, but I don't know how he would have held up during the #MeToo,” the former Playboy cover model added.

While Crystal is adamant that the Playboy empire “absolutely would not” have continued after Hef's death, she did not believe her late husband would have suffered the same fate as Harvey Weinstein, the powerful film producer now serving 23 years in prison for rape and sexual abuse.

'I never saw [Hef] like a predator. But I do remember when the Cosby stuff came out, like when I was at the mansion, and Hef knew about it,” Crystal said, referring to the 60 women who came forward in 2015 to accuse actor and comedian Bill Cosby of drugging . and rape them.

In her book, Crystal revealed that during their marriage she “sought girls” for sex orgies with herself and the late magazine mogul.

She described how Hugh liked to have “at least five girls” at a time when they would get intimate in the bedroom.

She told DailyMail.com during the sit-down that she never had sex alone with her late husband during their marriage, which lasted from 2012 until his death.

'I was scared. He was used to some kind of show, some kind of circus up there. So just me? That is not enough. It's easy to feel like you're not enough there,” Crystal painfully recalled.

The former Playmate also admitted that it had been a “relief” to recruit other women to have sex with Hef so she didn't have to have sex with him “all alone” – an admission that has caused some backlash among fans taken care of.

“I feel like people are trying to impose something on me that, you know, doesn't really apply. It's not like we really started liking bars or anything like that. So many girls would come to the mansion and so many girls would be like all of Hef and want to go up there,” she said.

'People just flocked in. So I didn't really have to do anything. It was endless. It was to the point where I was like, “Oh, my god, okay.” It was difficult.'

The blonde beauty, who told DailyMaill.com that she recently decided to change her last name back from Hefner to her maiden name, Harris, wrote in her book that she was “never in love” with her last husband.

She told DailyMail.com that she also didn't believe he was in love with her.

“I think he loved me as much as he could. I think he loved sex, and himself most of all,” Crystal said, laughing.

After years of therapy, which Crystal said was necessary to heal after leaving her ten-year stay at the mansion, she was still able to laugh at some of the madness that took place there.

One of the absurdities was the mirrored ceiling above Hef's rotating bed, where decades of orgies took place.

“I've always wondered, 'What's that mirror on the ceiling? Probably barely,'” she joked to DailyMail.com during her candid sit-down.

In her story she wrote that so many women were vying for the chance to be with Hef under the mirror on the rotating love mattress.

'There were always so many girls eager to have a turn in Hugh Hefner's bed, standing next to me at every party, desperate to be chosen. I felt torn; part of me wanted to reject them for their own good. But I also knew someone was coming, so it might as well be someone who really wanted to go,” she wrote.

“Sometimes they would try to hang around and hold on to Hef and suck on him. There seemed to be an endless stream of women desperate to get into the mansion; it never slowed down.

'And it further reinforced the feeling that I couldn't possibly walk away. The more other people wanted what I had, the tighter I clung to it. If someone stuck around for a while, I tried to find out what they wanted. Female friend? Playmate? What?'

The model, who was married to Hugh until his death at the age of 91 in 2017, made it clear she did not enjoy the group sex encounters with her husband and the other women.

She wrote, “Here I was in the Playboy Mansion, in Hugh Hefner's bed with Hugh Hefner inside me, beautiful naked women around me, and there was nothing sexy about it.

'This wasn't about making love. It was about power, control and influence. It was a performance. I auditioned for a role. I thought it was about my strength.

'After a while he was just done, no climax, just done. Suddenly he waved us away and almost pushed us aside…' she wrote.

Crystal continued that he would “finish the job himself” and while his face was “contorted like he was in pain,” she “freaked out” because he was “having some sort of eighty-one-year-old man fit.” but he was fine.

'It was the strangest five seconds of my life. He gave us each a pat on the back. “You can stay here overnight if you want, and you are welcome to spend the weekend with me and my babies,” she wrote in her book.

In the memoir, Crystal shared more details about life in the Playboy Mansion – famously populated by Hugh's hand-picked Playboy bunnies – including how her husband had a “vicious streak” and was addicted to Viagra and painkillers.

Hugh died on September 27, 2017 at the age of 91 due to heart failure and blood poisoning after contracting a fatal form of e-coli, leaving behind a fortune reported to be $43 million.

Less than a month later, on October 16, 2017, actress Alyssa Milano took a stand against sexual abuse on social media, paving the way for women worldwide to come forward.

The Who's The Boss actress tweeted: “If all women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote #MeToo as a status we might give people an idea of ​​the scale of the problem.”

A-list actresses – including Jennifer Lawrence, Gwyneth Paltrow and Uma Thurman – shared their own experiences and #MeToo was born.

Ozempic is threatening the body positivity movement as Americans told they want to be plus-size have found an easy way to get slim, experts warn.

The drug, originally designed for people with diabetes, is made from a substance called semaglutide. Ozempic and alternatives like Wegovy are part of a class of drugs called GLP-1 RAs, which help people produce insulin and lower the amount of sugar in their blood.

The drugs also slow the movement of food through the stomach, which reduces appetite – and makes people see it as an easy way to shed pounds.

“With Ozempic, obesity can be remedied immediately (albeit expensively),” Raven Smith wrote for Vogue in March.

'Larger people can quickly switch to a more socially acceptable format. Ozempic is a miracle cure, a cure for the fatness we have reluctantly forced ourselves to accept.'

The body positivity movement began in earnest in 1969, when an engineer named Bill Fabrey founded the National Association to Aid Fat Americans, today known as the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance.

In the 21st century, body positivity was embraced by companies looking to reach a broader audience. Brands like Dove ran ads featuring women of different sizes and others embraced the slogan “all bodies are beautiful.”

But after the rise of weight-loss drugs, there seems to be a shift in tone. Weight loss services like Noom, a subscription-based diet app, have embraced them.

And while the app is built on the foundations of behavioral changes and mental wellness, it seems to be taking a shortcut. It was launched last year Noom Med, which offers prescriptions for GLP-1 medications as patients fall within a certain BMI range and meet other requirements.

Similarly, after acquiring the telehealth company Sequence, Weight Watchers came up with WW Clinic, an online portal that facilitates prescriptions for GLP-1 medications.

Data shows interest in these drugs has increased, and the numbers are dramatic: From 2021 to 2022, prescriptions increased 130 percent in Atlanta, 351 percent in Seattle and 481 percent in Cleveland, according to analysis from Trilliant Health.

GLP-1 drugs have also been embraced by the ultra-famous. Oprah Winfrey has been candid about her experiences using weight-loss drugs, telling People in December that she saw them as a “gift.”

“The fact that there is a medically approved prescription to manage weight and stay healthier in my lifetime feels like a relief… and not something to hide behind and be ridiculed for again,” she said. “I'm done with shaming other people and especially myself.”

But the shame goes both ways – even for plus-size people who are open about their decision to use the drug. Gabi Menard, an influencer who rose to fame with the body positivity movement, announced in May that she was using Ozempic simply to be “skinny.”

She faced backlash and immediately deleted the video, but this didn't stop netizens from leaving comments on subsequent posts, including one that read: “How's the Ozempic going?”

Comedian Claudia Oshry has also opened up about her use of the drug. After a user left a comment calling her an “Ozempic skeleton,” Oshry posted a TikTok dancing around in a skeleton costume.

Journalist Constance Grady said in News Nation that body positivity simply doesn't make sense for many companies' bottom lines anymore.

“The way many companies and brands paid lip service to body positivity turned out to be very superficial, and as soon as Ozempic arrived we saw them start to move away from it,” she said.

At runway shows, Grady explained, the number of plus-size runway models dropped from a peak of 5 percent in 2022 to just 0.6 percent in 2023.

“I think what we're seeing is Ozempic giving people the opportunity to embrace a smaller body and companies saying, 'Oh, now that that's a realistic option for a lot of people… then we're just going to lean in.' all the way into this,'' she continued.

The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists published a notice earlier this month about the ongoing shortage of Ozempic and Wegovy.

Novo Nordisk, the manufacturer of both drugs, has taken steps to increase production capacity, but supply is not expected to meet patient demand for certain dose strengths.

The FDA approved Ozempic in 2017 as a treatment for type 2 diabetes with diet and exercise. It is not approved for chronic weight management but is often prescribed off-label.

Wegovy, on the other hand, is explicitly approved for people with severe obesity.

GLP-1 medications have also been embraced by people with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), a hormone disorder. Many people with PCOS have insulin resistance, which affects metabolism and causes people to gain weight or struggle to lose weight.

Ozempic has not yet been approved by the FDA to treat the condition, but this has not stopped people from taking it and using it as a miracle cure.

Dr. Shauna Levy, assistant professor of surgery at Tulane University Medical Center, argued that the body positivity movement is experiencing a shift simply because Ozempic offers an easy way to lose weight.

“I think this movement confused people in a lot of ways because there was an assumption that just because big is beautiful, big is healthy,” she told News Nation.

“And I think it put people off going to the doctor because they felt like it was okay.” People accept me now that I no longer have to deal with this disease.'