Women in the corporate world are often being penalised for being perceived as too intimidating aggressive or bossy a new study revealed on Wednesday adding that women in the US still hold staff roles rather than positions that will lead to CEO titles.

The quot;Women in the Workplace 2016quot; study by LeanIn.org — an organisation founded by Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg — and McKinsey amp; Company surveyed 132 companies that represent over 4.6 million workers.

In addition 34000 employees completed a survey designed to uncover their attitudes on gender job satisfaction ambition and work-life issues.

According to the findings for every 100 women promoted to manager 130 men are promoted and very few women are in line to become CEO.

quot;By the time women reach the SVP senior vice president level they hold just 20 per cent of line roles and line roles lead more directly to the C-suite: In 2015 90 per cent of new CEOs in the Samp;P 500 were promoted or hired from line rolesquot; said the study.

Women and men both view sponsorship by senior leaders as essential for success.nbsp;

quot;Yet women report fewer substantive interactions with senior leaders than their male counterparts do — and this gap widens as women and men advancequot; the study added.

However it found that for the first time women are negotiating for salaries and promotions at the same rate as men.

quot;When women negotiate they are getting better outcomes. You’re not going to get what you don’t ask for so it’s good they are askingquot; Sandberg was quoted as saying in cbsnews.com.

quot;Women are not getting that very critical first promotion to manager at the same rate as men. Men are 30 percent more likely to get that first promotion into leadership and that’s why we continue to see women underrepresented at all levelsquot; Sandberg added.nbsp;

The study also found that women get less credit for their ideas than do men and are more often interrupted by their bosses.

The quot;Lean Inquot; author said that while we have things have certainly gotten better since her mother’s time progress has stalled in the last decade. She said this can be traced back to society’s stereotypes and expectations.

The report also found that between just 4 and 10 percent of men are full-time caregivers and women are still doing most of the work at home.nbsp;

quot;More women are leaning in – and we’ll all go farther when the workplace stops pushing backquot; Sandberg was quoted as saying.

Two more deaths due to dengue including that of young boy have been reported in Delhi which took to 21 the number of fatalities due to the vector-borne disease in the national capital.

The total number of dengue cases in Delhi has gone up to to 1692 with 921 of them being reported this month according to a municipal report.

Both the deaths occurred recently one at Safdarjung Hospital and the other at Lok Nayak Jaiprakash LNJP Hospital.

quot;A young boy from Delhi died due to dengue at our hospital on Fridayquot; Medical Superintendent of Safdarjung Hospital A K Rai said.

Authorities at LNJP on Wednesday also confirmed the death at the hospital saying quot;a person recently died of dengue here.quot;nbsp;

This is the third dengue death at LNJP Hospital the biggest hospital under the Delhi government.

The first dengue victim this season was a 17-year-old girl from Jafrabad in northeast Delhi who had died on July 21 at this hospital. Another person had died over a month later.

Safdarjung Hospital has reported three dengue fatalities this season.

At least 314 cases of the vector-borne disease haven been reported between September 18 and 24 South Delhi Municipal Corporation said in the latest report.

Out of the 21 deaths nine at AIIMS and rest at other city hospitals the SDMC has only acknowledged four of them.

AIIMS in a report released on September 15 had said among the dengue and chikungunya patients visiting the hospital 70 per cent belonged to Uttar Pradesh 10 per cent to Bihar and rest to Delhi.

Out of the total cases August alone accounted for 652.

The number of houses where mosquito-breeding have been found till September 24 are — 51598 in NDMC areas 71227 SDMC and 18681 EDMC. The number of prosecutions launched in these areas are 4277 6955 and 1937 respectively.

Last year the city saw a staggering 15867 dengue cases –the worst in 20 years–with the disease claiming 60 lives as per municipal reports.

In 1996 a severe outbreak of dengue had occurred in Delhi when about 10252 cases and 423 deaths were reported.

The 19th Saarc Summit to be held in Pakistan in November has been postponed.

With India’s decision to pull out from the summit on Tuesday followed by Bangladesh Bhutan and Afghanistan the November 9-10 summit automatically stands postponed or cancelled.

The formal announcement of the postponement will be made later by the Kathmandu-based Saarc Secretariat in accordance with and suggestions from Nepal the current chair of the regional grouping.

Nepal as current chair of Saarc has received letters from India Bhutan and Bangladesh where they have categorically expressed their inability to participate in the summit due to tension in a part of the region.

Diplomatic sources said that another member Afghanistan has also expressed its inability to attend the summit but Nepal has not received a formal letter in this respect yet.

quot;We will make our position public soonquot; said a senior Nepal foreign ministry official adding that as the Foreign Minister is travelling to the US to attend the UNGA it will take some days for Nepal to come up with its position.

After India decided not to attend the summit in Pakistan it is now Sri Lanka that is likely to host the summit.nbsp;

The 12-hour bandh called by the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha in three hill sub-divisions of Darjeeling district on Wednesday failed to evoke much response even as over 200 GJM supporters were detained for trying to enforce the shutdown.

Government buses arrived at Darjeeling with tourists escorted by security personnel.

Private vehicles were however off the roads.

Around 98 per cent of attendance was recorded in government offices and private schools were open. Shops were mostly closed.

Bank ATMs were found to be open also.

At around 11 AM two toy trains plied with domestic and foreign tourists to Ghoom station from Darjeeling.

This was the first time in the DHR history that a toy train operated during a bandh.

Darjeeling District Magistrate Anurag Srivastava told reporters that more than 200 hundred GJM supporters were detained.

Three Gorkhaland Territorial Administration GTA members were arrested during the bandh.

Three state ministers — Gautam Deb Rabindra Nath Ghose and James Kujur monitored the situation in the three hill sub-Divisions.

Opposing the bandh Chief Minister Mamata Banjeree had on Tuesday stated that there should be no more shutdown and blockades.

quot;Bengal’s economy was affected by bandhs. There was enough bandh politicsquot; she said.

Gorkha Janmukti Morcha GJM called the shutdown alleging the state government has failed to give details of Rs 4000 crore which the chief minister has claimed to have given to the GTA.

GJM chief Bimal Gurung however claimed that the shutdown was quot;successfulquot;.

quot;People in the Hills have observed a peaceful bandhquot; he said adding TMC has unleashed an autocratic rule.

State tourism minister Gautam Deb who camped at Kalimpong said GJM supporters damaged three cars of TMC activists and the police is taking action.

On the closure of shops he said there was a fear among shop owners and that the state government has taken all steps to maintain normalcy.

Actor Jay Bhanushali was on Wednesday discharged from hospital where he was admitted for dengue fever.

quot;I was down with dengue and was hospitalised for five days. Today Wednesday I have been discharged from the hospital and hope to get better soonquot; Jay who is seen co-hosting the popular children singing reality show quot;The Voice India Kidsquot; alongside Sugandha Mishra said in a statement.

quot;Owing to my illness I couldn’t attend lsquo;The Voice India Kids’ shoot and especially couldn’t be a part of singer Shaan’s birthday celebrations. Hope all of them are having a blastquot; he added.

Shaan is seen as a coach on the amp;TV show alongside Neeti Mohan and Shekhar Ravjiani. His birthday is on Friday.

A team of Indian-American engineers has devised a way to send secure passwords through the human body using smartphone fingerprint sensors and laptop touchpads — rather than over the air where they’re vulnerable to hacking.

Sending a password or secret code over airborne radio waves like Wi-Fi or Bluetooth means anyone can eavesdrop making those transmissions vulnerable to hackers who can attempt to break the encrypted code.

Now computer scientists and electrical engineers from Seattle-based University of Washington have devised a way to send secure passwords through the human body — using benign low-frequency transmissions generated by fingerprint sensors and touchpads on consumer devices.

quot;Fingerprint sensors have so far been used as an input device. What is cool is that we’ve shown for the first time that fingerprint sensors can be re-purposed to send out information that is confined to the bodyquot; said senior author Shyam Gollakota assistant professor of computer science and engineering.

These quot;on-bodyquot; transmissions offer a more secure way to transmit authenticating information between devices that touch parts of your body — such as a smart door lock or wearable medical device — and a phone or device that confirms your identity by asking you to type in a password.

quot;Let’s say I want to open a door using an electronic smart lockquot; said co-lead author Merhdad Hessar an electrical engineering doctoral student. quot;I can touch the doorknob and touch the fingerprint sensor on my phone and transmit my secret credentials through my body to open the door without leaking that personal information over the air.quot;

The research team tested the technique on iPhone and other fingerprint sensors as well as Lenovo laptop trackpads and the Adafruit capacitive touchpad.nbsp;

In tests with 10 different subjects they were able to generate usable on-body transmissions on people of different heights weights and body types.nbsp;

The system also worked when subjects were in motion — including while they walked and moved their arms.

quot;We showed that it works in different postures like standing sitting and sleepingquot; said co-lead author Vikram Iyer electrical engineering doctoral student. quot;We can also get a strong signal throughout your body. The receivers can be anywhere — on your leg chest hands — and still work.quot;

The technology could also be useful for secure key transmissions to medical devices such as glucose monitors or insulin pumps which seek to confirm someone’s identity before sending or sharing data.

The new technique was described in a paper presented at the 2016 Association for Computing Machinery’s International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing UbiComp 2016 in Germany this month.

Fourteen persons Tuesday surrendered before a West Midnapore district court which sent them to judicial custody till October 25 in a two-year-old murder case of a Trinamool Congress leader.

The 14 surrendered before the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Prasun Ghosh and prayed for bail.

However the CJM rejected their bail plea and remanded them to judicial custody till October 25.

Trinamool Congress leader and Zilla Parishad member Kakali Bardolui was hacked to death on October 22 2014 in Keshpur.

An FIR was lodged against 28 people.

While two of them had been arrested others were at large.

Fourteen of them came to the court and surrendered on Tuesday.

The two who had been arrested earlier were now out on bail.

Twitter India and digital video network PING Network are launching a live video interview series with business and technology leaders over Twitter’s live streaming app Periscope.

Govindraj Ethiraj veteran journalist and founder of PING Network will roll out the first episode of this Periscope series titled MegaBites on Wednesday read a statement.

The first show themed ‘Will India Remain A Fast Growth Economy’ will see Ethiraj in conversation with Adi Godrej Chairman Godrej Group in a live programmed chat show.

The first episode will be streamed live on Periscope HD via BOOM.

MegaBites will focus on issues at the confluence of business and technology and bring a unique leadership perspective on how businesses and captains of industry are gearing up for and responding to the challenges of tomorrow.

This interactive show will invite a new business and technology leader every fortnight and will draw in India’s mobile audiences and engage in issues that go beyond the 24-hour news cycle.

Social media users can join the Periscope show live leave their questions by commenting in real time and participate in the conversation by tweeting with the hashtag MegaBites.

Keya Madhvani Media Partnerships Twitter India said: quot;The idea behind a programmed Periscope show is to foster a new format of digital storytelling via live video that is thought-provoking conversational substantive and distinct from mainstream content.quot;

Entrepreneur and politician Nandan Nilekani and Founder and CEO of FutureGroup Kishore Biyani are slated to be the next guests on MegaBites in the coming weeks.

Royal Bank of Scotland on Wednesday said it had agreed a fine of 1.1 billion 982 million euros with US authorities over the alleged mis-selling of mortgage securities ahead of the 2008 financial crisis.

It comes a week after US authorities said they would seek 14 billion from Deutsche Bank over similar allegations.

quot;The Royal Bank of Scotland Group has reached a final settlement with the National Credit Union Administration Board to resolve two outstanding civil lawsuits for 1.1 billion 846 million poundsquot; the British bank said in a statement.

RBS said the quot;settlement amount is substantially covered by existing provisionsquot; although the bank noted it may need to set aside additional funds awaiting the outcome of other similar claims faced by the bank.

US authorities have accused major banks of misleading investors about the values and quality of complex mortgage-backed securities sold before the 2008 global financial crisis.

Much of the underlying lending was worthless or fraudulent delivering billions of dollars in losses to holders of the mortgage bonds when the housing market collapsed bringing down numerous banks.

The substantial fine for RBS is meanwhile the latest in a long line of financial blows for the lender since it was rescued with British state funds in the wake of the financial crisis.

On the eve of the World Heart Day a leading cardiologist has warned that air pollution can adversely affect our heart and vascular system suggesting preventive measures for cardiovascular diseases.

Dr Upendra Kaul Executive Director and Dean Cardiology at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute in New Delhi said that medical studies have shown that air pollution can trigger heart attacks abnormalities of rhythm of heart and paralytic strokes with very small particles found in smoke and haze the culprits of greatest concern.

These pollutants which are inhaled pass through the lungs. The larger particles are caught by the alveoli in the lungs and get deposited there causing irritation to respiratory pathways and leading to bronchitis and other respiratory illnesses Kaul said on the eve of World Heart Day which is observed on September 29.

The fine and tiny particles pass through the filters of the lung and enter blood and can lead to excessive clotting and damage to the walls of the arteries supplying the heart and brain. This can lead to unstable angina heart attacks and brain strokes with their catastrophic consequences he said.

Air pollution is killing nearly eight lakh people annually in the South East Asian Region with India alone accounting for over 75 per cent of the casualties caused by cardiovascular diseases and lung cancer according to a new WHO report published on Tuesday.

Kaul said that people over 45 years of age or with a family history of heart disease and those suffering from high blood pressure diabetes smokers obesity and are physically inactive are at a higher risk of heart ailments caused due to air pollution.

Also people with an existing heart disease having undergone angioplastystenting and bypass surgery are vulnerable to the negative effects of air pollution.

Those with a previous history of strokes cardiac arrhythmias like atrial fibrillation ventricular tachycardia and those suffering from chronic lung disease are also at a higher risk he said.

Kaul suggests that regular exercise is an important preventive measure of heart disease.

It is also very important Kaul said to know when and where the particle pollution levels are high. People should avoid exercising in environments polluted with smoke in the air burning vegetation and forest fires in the hilly areas.

He has advised people to plan activities at times when the pollution levels are lower like early mornings and in areas surrounded by green trees. People should delay their activities until the air is cleaner or move to indoor activities when particle levels are high with haze smog etc.

In addition people should reduce the levels of activities if air is not clean and go for a walk instead of a jog so that the amounts of pollutants they breathe are reduced.

Kaul said that it is important to know warning symptoms during exercise. Even if they go away a note of the symptoms should be taken. Chest discomfort breathing difficulty cold sweat nausea or giddiness may be initial symptoms of a pending serious problem he said.

Sustained financial hardship early in life may put youngsters at risk of developing worse cognitive functions as well as premature ageing a study has found.

quot;Income is dynamic and individuals are likely to experience income changes and mobility especially between young adulthood and midlifequot; said lead investigator Adina Zeki Al Hazzouri from University of Miami.

quot;The study places economic hardship as the pathway to cognitive ageing and as an important contributor to premature ageing among economically disadvantaged populationsquot; Hazzouri added.

The researchers found strong and graded associations between exposure to economic hardship and worse cognitive function especially in processing speed.

In the study individuals with all-time poverty performed significantly worse than individuals never in poverty.

Similar results were observed in persons with perceived financial difficulty the reseachers said.

Previous research has shown that exposure to poor socio-economic conditions during childhood adulthood or cumulatively is associated with cognitive deficits.

However most of these studies involved older adults and so there is little data on whether economic adversity influences cognitive health much earlier in a person’s life.

For the new study the team examined the effects of sustained poverty and perceived financial difficulty on cognitive function in midlife using income data for about 3400 adults in US aged between 18 to 30 at the start of the study in 1985-86.

Sustained poverty was defined as the percentage of time the participants’ household income was less than 200 per cent of the federal poverty level.

Participants were divided into four groups: never in poverty less than one-third of the time from one-third to nearly 100 per cent of the time or always in poverty.

In 2010 at a mean age of 50 years participants underwent three tests that are considered reliable to detect cognitive ageing.

quot;It is important to monitor how trends in income and other social and economic parameters influence health outcomesquot; Hazzouri said in a paper published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Actress Emily Blunt says her husband John Krasinski is the perfect man.

The Girl on the Trainnbsp;star has praised her husband whom she wed in 2010 for empowering her supporting her and making her laugh reported ET online.