Intermediate exams to start from May 5

Controller of Examinations, Rawalpindi Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Hamayun Iqbal said the annual examination for Intermediate would start from May 5.
Talking to APP, the Controller said, “The annual examinations are scheduled to start from May 5 for which all arrangements have been finalized”. He said roll number slips have been issued to the candidates. Board has received around 1, 10,000 admission forms from male and female students. He added that on the directive of the Punjab CM, special teams would be constituted to pay surprise visits to the examination centres to ensure cheating-free atmosphere.
PINDI BISE DISPATCHES ROLL NUMBER SLIPS: The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) has dispatched the roll number slips to the candidates appearing in the annual examination part-II 2012, which would start on May 8.
Talking to APP, Professor Humyun Iqbal, controller examination of BISE said that examination body is dispatching roll No slips to the candidates.He said that this year 112, 000 students has submitted admission forms for part-II commencing while part-I examination will start from May 28, he added. He said examination will not be held on Saturday due to closure of banks.
Meanwhile, the City District Government Rawalpindi (CDGR) has imposed Section 144 around all the examination centres set up for the intermediate annual exams, which will start from May 5.
Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education has made foolproof arrangements for transparent and smooth holding of the annual intermediate exams.Cell phones, textbooks, papers, calculators and other items, which can be used for cheating, would not be allowed in the examination halls and irrelevant persons will not be allowed to enter the premises of the examination centres. On directives of Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif, special teams would be constituted to pay surprise visits at the examination centre, which helped ensure holding the examination in a cheating-free manner.
High salt intake linked to higher stroke risk: Older adults with salty diets may have an increased risk of suffering a stroke, a new study suggests, that the new findings strengthen the case for heavy salt intake as a stroke risk factor. According to Dr. Francesco P. Cappuccio, of the University of Warwick in the UK, who wrote an editorial published with the study in the journal “Stroke Health “news reported. Researchers found that of close to 2,700 older, mostly minority adults, those who got well above the recommended sodium intake were nearly three times as likely to suffer a stroke over 10 years as people who met guidelines recommended by the American Heart Association (AHA). It was well-known that as people’s sodium intake goes up their blood pressure is likely to increase as well.
It is been less clear, though, whether a salty diet may ultimately mean higher risks of heart attack and stroke down the road. Unlike blood pressure, which changes quickly, stroke and heart disease are long-range complications. So studying the relationship between people’s sodium intake and their risk of heart problems and stroke is more difficult. Right now, the AHA suggests that people limit their sodium intake to no more than 1,500 milligrams a day. That’s a bit stricter than some other recommendations; the World Health Organization, for example, advises a limit of 2,000 milligrams.
But people in the current study mainly black and Hispanic New Yorkers typically consumed well above those recommendations.
They averaged 3,031 milligrams of sodium per day. The findings are based on 2,657 adults who were interviewed about their health and lifestyle, and completed dietary questionnaires. They were 69 years old, on average, at the start of the study. Over the next 10 years, there were 235 strokes in the group. And people who’d downed at least 4,000 milligrams of sodium each day at the outset were almost three times more likely to suffer a stroke as those who would kept their daily sodium below 1,500 milligrams. Among the 558 people whose sodium intake topped 4,000 milligrams per day, there were 66 strokes. That compared with 24 strokes among the 320 people who met the AHA guideline.