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What is normal blood pressure? Prof. B. M. Hegde, hegdebm@gmail.com “When people cheat in any arena, they diminish themselves-they threaten their own self-esteem and their relationships with others by undermining the trust they have in their ability to succeed and in their ability to be true.” Cheryl Hughes I have been wondering about this normal blood pressure for the last sixty years ever since I joined the I MBBS class in 1956. In the physiology class I was wondering what this normal blood pressure was and how did they find out the normal level in the first place? My teacher was not able to answer that to my satisfaction although she did not like my interference. Luckily those days the normal levels were much higher than now. I grew up in medicine and at some stage became a member of the International Society of Hypertension and met some of the “top” hypertensionologists to rub shoulders with them on an equal footing. None of them could quench my thirst. In t...
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FOCUS - JULY 2025

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Presidential Powers vis-à-vis Supreme Court Intervention The problem between the office of the Governor and state governments in India is perhaps as old as the days of independence in 1947. But it became more acute much later due to political compulsions of ruling dispensation at the centre. Governor overstepping his constitutional brief has always been a bone of contention with the state governments, if the state government happens to be of a political outfit not in alignment with the political dispensation at the centre, as it has been happening with the Tamil Nadu government led by DMK with MK Stalin, as the Chief Minister and the Governor RN Ravi, appointed by BJP led NDA government at the centre. Governor Ravi had, in a way, made life difficult for the Tamil Nadu government. He had held back clearance of some 10 legislations since long and was sitting on it. TN government had to take recourse to the options available to it, to break the impasse. So they knocked the door of Supre...
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AUGUST MIP - 2025

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