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For the employees of public sector banks (PSBs), 2023 ends on a happy note as the Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) on Thursday inked a 17 per cent annual wage hike agreement with bank unions.

Eating fatty foods during stressful periods can impair the body’s ‘recovery’ from the effects of stress, new research suggests. The study, published recently in Frontiers in Nutrition and Nutrients, showed that consuming foods high in fat before a mentally stressful episode can reduce brain oxygenation and cause poorer vascular function in adults.

 India accounted for 66 per cent of the 5.2 million malaria cases recorded in 2022 – the highest for any country in the South East Asia region of the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations health agency noted November 30, 2023.