NATA SAHA joined hands with American Diabetes Association (ADA) and participated in Tour de Cure and Step Out: Walk to Stop Diabetes on June 26, 2016 at Novo Nordisk, Princeton NJ.

Over 1500 people participated in the event along with NATA SAHA members who came in big numbers. This was more than just another fundraising event, it’s a day packed with excitement and energy where walkers and riders of all levels joined forces in the fight to Stop Diabetes® and raised over $300,000 during this event for diabetes research education and advocacy in support of the American Diabetes Association.

NATA-SAHA event is coordinated by the Rajeshwar Gangasani (President-Elect), Srinivas Ganagoni (Joint,Secretary), Anjan Karnati (Chair:Community Services) and Dr. Meena Murthy (SAHA-Advisor).

SAHA (South Asian Health Ambassadors) is formed by NATA at Dallas Convention 2016 by our top leaders to promote "Health and Wellness" Programs to educate and bring awareness to all our NATA Members and South Asian population.

It is important to highlight the serious problem of Diabetes, nearly 30 million children and adults in the U.S. have diabetes and the 86 million have pre-diabetes and in South Asians specifically Asian Indians knowing Hyderabad is the Diabetes capital of the world.

We as NATA SAHA team are committed to educate and help reversing the trend by engaging our community in such events and with many other awareness programs in the coming months.

NATA formed the following SAHA committee to take these initiatives forward and spread the message:

Advisors: Dr. Meena Murthy, Dr. Venkamma Reddy, Rajeshwar Gangasani, Dr. Raghavareddy Ghosala, Dr. Stanley Reddy and Srinivas Ganagoni.

Core Committee Members: Anjan Karnati, Sarath Veta, Ramesh Anthony, Hari Velkur, Anna Reddy, Dwarak Varanasi, Sarath Mandapati, Rami Reddy Alla, Satya Pathapait, Sudhakar Reddy, Surya Reddy, Srinath Palavala, Nageshwar Mukkamalla, Sreekanth Penumada, Siva Meka, Arun Sriramineni, Vamsi Koppuravuri, Krishna Siddhada, Naresh Chintalacheruvu and Venkat Sunkireddy.

About Diabetes:
Diabetes is a disease in which the body does not produce or properly use insulin. Insulin is a hormone that is needed to convert sugar, starches and other food into energy needed for daily life. The cause of diabetes continues to be a mystery. Both genetics and environmental factors such as obesity and lack of exercise appear to play roles in the cause of type 2 diabetes.

Type 1 Diabetes:
Results from the body's failure to produce insulin, the hormone that "unlocks" the cells of the body, allowing glucose to enter and fuel them. It is estimated that 5-10% of Americans who are diagnosed with diabetes have type 1 diabetes.

Type 2 Diabetes:
Usually results from insulin resistance (a condition in which the body fails to properly use insulin), combined with relative insulin deficiency. Type 2 diabetes accounts for about 90-95% of all diagnosed cases of diabetes.

Symptoms of Diabetes:
Diabetes often goes undiagnosed because many of its symptoms may seem harmless. Recent studies indicate that the early detection of diabetes symptoms and treatment can decrease the chance of developing the complications of diabetes.

Some diabetes symptoms include: frequent urination, excessive thirst, extreme hunger, unusual weight loss, increased fatigue, irritability and blurry vision. If you have one or more of these diabetes symptoms, see your doctor right away.

Diabetes Complications:
1. Increased risk of heart disease and stroke
2. Leading cause of kidney failure
3. Nervous system disease and non-traumatic lower-limb amputations

After scoring several super hits in Telugu, Tamil and her native language Malayalam, Kerala beauty Amala Paul tied the knot with popular Tamil director AL Vijay when she was at the top of her game.

Even after her marriage, Amala continued to act in films such as Mili, Memu and the recently released Amma Kanakku in which she played the mother of a teenage girl. In one of the promotional interviews for Amma Kanakku, Amala was asked if she will only continue to act in mother roles.

Amala replied saying that it is sad to brand a married actress as a proper fit for only mother or sister roles and said that even married actresses can play heroine roles just like any others.

Ram Gopal Varam is silently completing the shooting of his latest film ‘Vangaveeti’, which is based on the real life faction war between the Devineni and Vangaveeti families of Vijayawada. The movie’s shoot is reportedly coming to an end.

Ram Gopal Varma is planning to release the movie in the second half of this year and the film is bound to stir up controversy in the run up to the release, as the subject is still quite sensitive in Vijayawada. The film is supposedly Varma’s last in Telugu

After the super duper happening of ‘Bahubali,’ one name that buzzed equivalently with main leads Prabhas, Rana is of Kattappa Sathya Raj. The ultimately talented Tamil actor was although made familiar in Telugu with ‘Mirchi’ from Koratala Siva, definitely ‘Bahubali’ has done a major change for his career at least in Tollywood. One question of Nation importance was… Why Kattappa Killed Bahubali?

This time it’s a different game for Kattappa because his new movie ‘Dora’ is releasing tomorrow in theaters dubbed from Tamil movie ‘Jackson Durai’ is hitting Telugu and Tamil states in parallel tomorrow. With Sathya Raj’s son Sibi Satrhya Raj also playing a crucial main lead and Bindu Madhavi as female lead, ‘Dora’ can grab good openings in Kattappa fame.

Of late Sathya Raj’s characterization in ‘Brahmotsavam’ flopped big time and he needs to get back strongly which can happen with ‘Dora.’ Already, the scary getups of Sathya Raj and remaining casting team have created some excitement. Let’s see, how far ‘Dora’ stands on Sathya Raj brand?

After acting in nearly 300 films, senior comedian Krishna Bhagawan is taking a new route. Yes, he is all set to write story, dialogues for Allari Naresh new movie to be directed by Anish Krishna of ‘Ala Ela’ fame. On the eve of Naresh’s birthday, makers have officially announced the commencement of regular shooting from September.

Krishna Bhagawan’s peculiar comic timing made him one of the star comedians, beginning the career long back under Vamsy direction. Later on, he grew step by step becoming an integral part of every film released in last few years. Although Krishna Bhagawan’s career showed a downfall in 2016, his picking of a new job as writer hopefully should make him busy again.

Boppana Chandrasekhar who earlier produced ‘Kevvu Keka’ with Naresh is producing this untitled flick on Jahnavi Creations banner. Let’s wait for more details.

Veteran director K. Raghavendra Rao is going to make a film with Akkineni Nagarjuna very soon and this movie is going to be based on the life of saint Hathiram Baba. The film has been tentatively titled ‘Om Namo Venkatesaya’.

Since Nagarjuna and Raghavendra Rao teamed up successfully in the past for ‘Annammaya’, ‘Sri Ramadasu’ and ‘Shirdi Sai’, there are good expectations on this movie as well. But members belonging to the Hathiram Baba religious sect raised some objections about the movie, stating that they were not consulted.

Sources say that Raghavendra Rao will be meeting the sect members soon, to allay their fears and apprehensions.

Trisha Krishnan, who is currently busy shooting for Tamil horror film "Mohini", is still the strongest contender to reprise Kangana Ranaut's role in the Tamil version of critically acclaimed Hindi blockbuster "Queen", said a source close to the actress.

"The makers have once again initiated talks with Trisha. The project requires bulk dates and Trisha already has two projects in her kitty. She is figuring out how she can set aside dates that will require her to shoot abroad for a long schedule," the source told IANS.

Veteran actress-filmmaker Revathy, known for directing films like "Mitr, My Friend" and "Phir Milenge", will helm the yet-untitled remake.

"Queen" is the story of a young Punjabi girl, played by Kangana Ranaut, who embarks on her honeymoon to Paris alone after her fiance calls off the wedding.

Actress Suhasini Mani Ratnam has been roped in to pen the dialogues for the project. The remake will be bankrolled by produced Thiyagarajan.

Long legged lass Pooja Hegde who made quite the buzz when she forayed into Tollywood with Naga Chaitanya's film Oka Laila Kosam was later seen in Varun Tej's Mukunda.

Although Pooja got many offers from Telugu cinema at that time she picked Bollywood epic drama Mohenjo Daro over everything that came her way.

Pooja Hegde didn’t want to miss out on once in a lifetime opportunity and signed up Mohenjo Daro by consenting to all their conditions.

As per agreement Pooja was not supposed to take up any other film until Mohenjo Daro hits the screens. That film is finally gearing up for release on this August 12th and Pooja is once again being chased by top filmmakers.

If the sources are to be believed, Pooja Hegde is going to be signed up for Allu Arjun’s next film directed by Harish Shankar.

She was considered for Allu Arjun’s film earlier but couldn’t bag it because of Mohenjo Daro clause. If Pooja Hegde is zeroed in for Allu Arjun’s film then she could be the next big thing in Tollywood for sure.

All the hype surrounding Niharika Konidela's first film "Oka Manasu" got punctured after the movie bit the dust. Before the release of the movie many rumors floated that Niharika is dating the movie's handsome hero Naga Shourya.

Like the movie, the rumors are also busted now. N

Buzz in the industry is that Naga Babu's elder brother, megastar Chiranjeevi got angry with the rumors about Niharika and Naga Shourya and reportedly expressed his displeasure to Naga Babu. It was then that Niharika told the media that there is nothing between them and they are just speculations.

So for the benefit of his career, Naga Shourya has moved on and working on his next movies.

Everything is cleared for the marriage of Naga Chaitanya and Samantha as even Nagarjuna has given his consent.

Naga Chaitanya and Samantha have already sought the blessings of Chaitu’s mother who resides in Chennai. Then they took the matter to Nagarjuna who reportedly was in two-minds initially has now given green signal.

“Amala and I are very happy for Chaitanya, who has found someone who makes him happy. We’ll be making the announcement soon,” Nagarjuna told this to a news agency. Hence, all is set for grand marriage of Naga Chaitanya and Samantha very soon.

Naga Chaitanya and Samantha have been dating from last year. They decided to take their relationship to the next level early this year and Samantha told the media that she is in love with a Tollywood hero during the promotions of her recent movies.

It was GreatAndhra.com which broke the news that she is dating Naga Chaitanya and all the media picked it up later. Now, the news is almost official. A formal announcement is needed and Nagarjuna says he will be making it pretty soon.

On the other hand, Nagarjuna’s younger son Akhil has also revealed that he is in love with Hyderabad based fashion designer and Nagarjuna told the news agency that he is happy with Akhil’s choice too.

Pawan Kalyan’s creative urge to work on difference concepts made him to open a new banner Pawan Kalyan Creative Works. At the same time, Pawan also knew a fact that he is very bad at managing the financial and budget handling aspects which are pivotal in film making. Then, he came across old friend Sharat Marar and North Star Entertainment banner drove into existence.

Till now, Sharat Marar played a decisive role in Pawan Kalyan signing fresh projects. From ‘Gopala Gopala’ till the ongoing pre production works for a movie in Dolly direction, Sharat is a key personality. However, his role is learnt to be restricted only to business area without interfering into creative aspects.

Even now when Pawan is set to move on a foreign trip, alone Dolly and his team is given the sheer responsibility to complete the script. Sharat Marar is just meant to provide financial clearances and looking after management activities at office. That’s a better way of limiting producer’s role only for trade purpose. Hmmm… this theory doesn’t apply for hero Pawan Kalyan because he is all in one and one in all.

London: Men are more willing to resort to unprotected sex when they find their partners hot, reveals a new scientific survey.

The study sought to better understand the relationship between perceived attractiveness and condom use intentions in a heterosexual male population between ages 18-69.

The researchers found that more attractive a woman was judged to be on average, the more likely participants would be willing to have sex with her and the less likely they were to intend to use a condom during sex.

"Male perceptions of attractiveness influence their condom use intentions,” the study said.

"Such risk biases could profitably be discussed during sex education sessions and in condom use promotion interventions,” the researchers noted.

The research, led by Anastasia Eleftheriou, a graduate student in computer science at the University of Southampton in England, was published in the journal BMJ Open.

In the study, 51 men were asked to rate the attractiveness of 20 women on the basis of facial photographs, to estimate the likelihood that each woman had a sexually transmitted infection (STI) and to indicate their willingness to have sex with or without a condom with each woman.

The more attractive a man considered a woman to be, the less likely it was that he would intend to use a condom during sex with her, even if he thought the woman had a sexually transmitted infection, the findings showed.

The researchers also found that when a man judged a woman to be less attractive, he was more willing to use a condom.

The risk of unprotected sex also goes up when a man considers himself to be attractive, the study suggests.

The more attractive a participant judged himself to be, the less likely he was to intend to use a condom, the results showed.

Aalia Ebrahim daughter of yesteryears sex symbol Pooja Bedi is super hot and looks all set for debut in B town.

Aalia is posting a lot of candid images of her posing in bikinis on her instagram page and is already a hit on the internet.

Aalia who is just nineteen years old doesn’t mind flaunting her curves. However Aalia is sensitive and cannot take rude comments on her skin show.

“If my cleavage is visible, it does not mean I am giving consent, it does not mean I am “asking for it. I am more than my breasts and it is unfair to let them define me.” Aalia responded to negative comments on her exposing.

Pooja Bedi was known as a controversy queen during her prime and her daughter too seems pretty bold going by her statements and pictures.

We bet you cannot take eyes off this eternal beauty. Can you? Amy Jackson, the British beauty is one of the most happening actresses in Indian cinema industry now.

We don’t need any reasons for that. She is a cynosure for all eyes and is a riot both on and off screen.

Here is a picture from her personal collection where Amy is enjoying her time off in Ibiza. I’m in love with this place said Amy, but we are in love with you Amy J!

New York: Americans are not generally an unhappy people but parents in the US generally are not as happy as those without children, new research suggests.

The reason? The relative lack of workplace "packages'' of policies such as paid sick time, paid vacation, flexible work hours and paid maternal or parental leave, said co-researcher Matthew Andersson, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.

The US also has the largest "happiness gap" among parents compared to nonparents in 22 industrialised countries, according to the report.

"The United States, without any standard paid leave available to mothers or parents -- or any standard vacation or sick leave to support raising a dependent child -- falls strikingly behind all the other countries we examined in terms of providing for parents' happiness and overall well-being," he said.

In countries in which such policies are mandated by the government or industry, a smaller gap exists between parents and non-parents. 

"In fact, in those places, parents might be slightly happier," Andersson said.

The findings will be published in a forthcoming issue of the American Journal of Sociology.

The research examined comparative data from the US, European countries, Australia, Russia and New Zealand, which was gathered from the International Social Surveys and the European Social Surveys. 

"Another striking finding was that giving money to parents in child allowances or monthly payments had less effect on parental happiness that giving them the tools -- such as flexible work time -- to combine employment with parenting," the report said. 

Besides gathering policy information of the countries, researchers took into account each country's gross domestic product and fertility rate to ensure the findings did not simply reflect economic status.

Researchers tested a number of hypotheses, among them whether more unexpected births and larger families might be associated with parents being less happy than child-free people. But those factors were relatively unimportant, the study showed. 

The research also found that Americans are not generally an unhappy people. On a scale from one to 10, they hover in the eight to 10 range, compared with, for example, France, where people tend to rate their levels from 5 to 7.

Actor Shahid Kapoor says he is "very disappointed" with a vegetarian not getting many options on flight menus. 

Shahid, who was flying back to India from Madrid, Spain, after attending the 17th edition of of International Indian Film Academy (IIFA), shared his disappointment over Twitter.

"Tired of vegetarians never having options on flights. Really something wrong fundamentally with it. Emirates, very disappointed," he wrote.

On the work front, Shahid was recently seen on-screen in Abhishek Chaubey's controversial film "Udta Punjab". He will next be seen in the upcoming film "Rangoon".

Kriti Sanan, who got introduced to Telugu audiences with 'One-Nenokkadine' starring Mahesh Babu has shed all the inhibitions.

She is now said to be dating with Sushant Singh Rajput who shot into national limelight with biopic Dhoni.

It was evident from the selfie photographs she has been posting on Instagram in the recent past. At present, both of them are acting together in the film Rabta and it is learnt they are maintaining live-in relationship.

Though Kriti Sanon has rubbished the rumours about being romantically involved with her Sushant, apparently her actions speak otherwise.

She has been a frequent visitor at the actor's new bachelor pad. Last week the duo left together for Thailand to train in martial arts for their upcoming film. After the training was over, they reportedly decided to stay back.

Let us wait and see how long Sushant will maintain his relationship with Kriti.

Sydney: Jasvinder Sidhu, a lecturer at a college in Melbourne, has helped expose a large visa scam involving Indians moving to Australia.

"Some of the fake visa-holders had gone on to be exploited, and in some cases raped, by their bosses," according to a report by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation or ABC.

Mr Sidhu was allegedly approached on Facebook by a local "visa fixer" who sought introductions to Indians looking to migrate to Australia. The fixer, who was then filmed on hidden camera, claimed that he could line up corrupt employers who would create fictitious jobs. The fixer wanted a fee of $50,000 per case.

Mr Sidhu, according to the report, was told he would be paid $5,000 for every "applicant" he was able to deliver from India. The fixer said he could organize student and IT visas.

His revelations are part of a large investigation that includes examining corruption among government officials.

The ABC reports: "Mr Sidhu said he had personally met at least 40 Indians who had paid for fake visas, only to be ripped off by fixers or exploited by unscrupulous bosses who were part of the corrupt schemes...we have seen girls being raped by their employers, we have seen people with other major injuries at work, and they don't complain."

WASHINGTON: A top American Senator has asked the Obama Administration to discontinue issuing immigrant and non-immigrant visas to citizens from 23 countries, including India and China, while alleging them of being non-cooperative in taking back illegal immigrants from the US.

"Dangerous criminals, including murderers, are being released every day because their home countries will not cooperate in taking them back," Republican Senator Senate Chuck Grassley said in a letter to the Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson.

In fiscal year 2015 alone, 2,166 individuals were released in the US because of this decision and the non-cooperation from recalcitrant countries; more than 6,100 were released in the preceding two years, Grassley, who is the Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman, said.

Currently, 23 countries are labelled by the US as uncooperative, with the top five most recalcitrant countries being Cuba, China, Somalia, India, and Ghana, Grassley said.

In addition, US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement is monitoring another 62 nations where cooperation is strained, but which are not yet deemed recalcitrant.

In the letter to Johnson, Grassley reminded him that, Congress addressed this problem when it enacted section 243(d) of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

"Under section 243(d), the Secretary of State is required to discontinue granting immigrant or non-immigrant visas to a country upon receiving notice from you that the country has denied or is unreasonably delaying accepting a citizen, subject, national or resident of that country," he said.

"This tool has been used only once, in the case of Guyana in 2001, where it had an immediate effect, resulting in obtaining cooperation from Guyana within two months," Grassley said. (PTI)

Here is a real scoop. Why Anushka has gained weight again although she underwent for rigorous fitness training to be fit for the shoot of “Baahubali 2”. Buzz is that she is facing low metabolism issues and has gained weight recently again. 

As she needs to look slim like queen Deva Sena in Rajamouli’s conclusion part, she is now taking weight reduction treatment.

She is not going for liposuction or other such treatments, she reportedly taking regular medication to improve her metabolism. At the same time, she is reportedly doing yoga and other fitness exercises.

She has crossed 34 years and it has becom

Her weight issue is reportedly worrying Rajamouli. The “Baahubali 2” team is hoping that she gets into shape very fast.

There is unprecedented craze and hype around Rajinikanth's Kabali in Kollywood trade. The film has done sensational pre release business over there.

Kabali Telugu dubbing rights were bought for a bomb. The pr

This looked absolutely ridiculous as a dubbing film cannot be able to recover that much money if it goes wrong.

Rajini’s previous film Lingaa was a huge flop in Telugu and the investors have lost more than half of their investment. Despite that Kabali rights have fetched fancy offers from Telugu producers.

Looks like their blind faith in Rajinikanth’s superstardom is paying off. Kabali has been getting mind-boggling offers from the third parties and exhibitors from small towns. Kabali teasers have multiplied the expectations on the film.

Everyone believes that Rajini is going to set box office on fire. Although Kabali isn’t a regular commercial film from Rajinikanth, trade believes that it could work wonders if the film lives up to expectations.