Dark skin can be a bane for people who crave a fair complexion. Though a lot of people have naturally dark skin, darkening of skin could also be due to hyperpigmentation and various other reasons. A dark colored skin has more of skin pigment Melanin, as compared to a fair skin. Unfortunately, increased quantity of melanin can cause the skin to look blemished and patchy. 

Dark Skin Symptoms 

The symptoms for dark skin include a dark brown to blackish skin. This could be coupled with blemishes or dark patches on the skin. 

Dark Skin Causes 

The causes for a dark skin or complexion could be many. Some of the most common ones are - Heredity People who have a dark skin often have children who are dark-skinned too. The genes seem to pass on from generation to generation. 

Hyperpigmentation 

In this condition the skin produces too much of the pigment melanin, causing the skin to become darker than usual. 

Skin disorders 

Conditions such as Lichen Simplex Chronicus is a skin disorder that causes severe itching that leaves the skin thick, dark and patchy. 

Sun rays 

Over exposure to sun causes the skin to tan. This is a natural mechanism, wherein to protect itself from the harmful UV rays of the sun, the skin produces more of the pigment melanin which shields the penetration of UV rays into the skin. 

Home Remedies & Tips for Dark Skin 

Here are some simple home remedies that you can do to lighten the skin tone and get a lighter complexion. However, they must be done regularly and best results are obtained if they are inculcated as a part of daily routine. 

Mix 1 tsp of milk powder, 1 tsp of honey, 1 tsp of lemon juice, and ½ tsp of almond oil. Apply on face and wash off after 10-15 minutes. This pack helps bring shine to the skin and also removes tan. Mix oatmeal with curd and tomato juice and apply on the face. Keep it on for 20 minutes and then wash it off with cold water. It helps remove the tan and lightens the skin. 

Place sliced raw potato on the face. It helps reduce blemishes and other marks. 

Applying turmeric powder along with lime juice removes the tan. Lime juice is a natural bleach. 

Dried orange peels mixed with curd also help reduce blemishes and scars. Wash off this mixture with cold water after 15 minutes. 

Soak 4 almonds overnight. Grind into a fine paste using milk. Apply on face and neck and leave it overnight. Wash with cold water in the morning. Do this daily for 15 days, followed by twice a week. 

A tbsp of gram flour mixed with 2 tsp of raw milk and 2-3 drops of lime juice works well for lightening dark skin. Apply this mixture and leave it for 15 minutes before washing off. Repeat for 4 weeks and follow up with once a week.Apply a paste of fresh ground mint leaves and leave it for about 20 minutes. Wash with cold water, continue for 15 days. 

Apply a mixture of grated tomato with 2-3 drops of lime juice on the face. Leave it for 20 minutes before washing off. Do this twice a day for 15-20 days for best results. 

Balanced Diet 

Although there are no particular foods that will lighten your skin instantly, a balanced diet definitely helps by giving your skin a healthy glow. Drinking an optimum amount of water hydrates your skin and keeps it blemish free. 

Avoid excessive consumption of heavy and oily foods. 

Incorporate whole cereals, pulses, fresh fruits and vegetables in your diet. 

Drink at least 4-5 liters of water every day. Water washes out the toxins from the body

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It is important to pay attention to what we eat to keep our skin clean and not too oily. Acne usually occurs when we are teenagers and ends when we get older. What is worrying now is the fact that acne does not always stop when we start to become mature. Research shows that 50% of adult women are still experiencing acne. And for the men have a lower percentage of 25% only. A woman’s chance to have acne adult continues to increase along with their menstrual period (adult acne). One of the most effective natural way to eliminate acne is the acne diet, so you do not need to buy expensive acne products valuable. 

What is Acne 

Acne is a skin disorder that is caused by clogged pores, they can occur in many places such as face, necks, chest, back, shoulders and upper arms. It is the one of the most common and persistent skin disorder. Pimples or Acne mostly affects teenagers; these groups are most vulnerable as they experience hormone changes in these times. However they are not limited to teenagers, they can also manifest in adults or child alike. 

Causes of Acne

Acne causes can be attributed to many things; here are some things that you can avoid to help you prevent Acne: 

One is sleep deprivation or irregular sleeping habits. This can elevate you’re stress levels and can lead to acne break outs. 

Eating habits, there are a lot of debates about this. But nevertheless it is better to change you’re eating habits since you will benefit from it in the long run. Do not eat a lot of fatty, sugar and starch rich food. 

Chronic constipation, is can also lead to acne break outs. A if waste is not eliminated quickly then your blood stream may suffer from a high level of toxic matter. 

Acne Diet Plan

Foods full of zinc

Zinc is generally suggested through health professionals when designing a good ‘acne free of charge diet’ like a health supplement with regard to decorating your skin. It has been established to possess effective pores and skin recovery qualities and it is particularly efficient within treating acne breakouts. A few meals which are full of zinc tend to be seafood and also the different types of spend seafood, such as oysters. With regard to breakfast every day, consider whole wheat tiniest seed or even whole wheat bran. It’s also wise to consider your own zinc nutritional vitamins frequently. Do not overdo this although, we want just little amounts of the nutritional. 

Limit Your own Consumption Associated with Carbohydrates

Although you should not reduce your own carb consumption significantly, attempt to keep your percentage associated with carbs in what you eat towards the additional nutrition from 50 % for the most part. If you’re able to withstand along with actually much less, a lot the greater. With this issue, it will likely be recommended in order to talk to an authorized nutritionist and perhaps obtain he or she recommendations on which carbs you need to prevent totally as well as those you need to consume small amounts. Keep in mind that a few starchy meals include additional nutrition, as well as these types of nutrition might be much more good for your own acne breakouts compared to carbs these people include tend to be harmful into it. 

Drink Green Tea Extract Regularly

Green teas may come with an inhibitory impact on the actual manufacturing associated with androgens. Should you didn’t understand however, acne breakouts may end up being triggered within puberty through the improve release associated with man the body’s hormones or even androgens. This particular hormone encourages the actual development associated with cells, such as locks, Along the way associated with developing much more as well as heavier strands associated with locks. Your body frequently reveals by itself in order to microbial episodes in the atmosphere. These types of microorganisms key in with the tiny lesions on the skin within the pores and skin brought on by the actual development associated with heavier and much more several fur. Within servings from the entire body exactly where you will find less essential oil glands, the actual germs are often expelled using the perspiration. Nevertheless, within individuals areas of the body exactly where essential oil glands proliferate, these types of germs are usually caught underneath the pores and skin exactly where these people proliferate as well as trigger acne as well as comes to look. 

Stay Away from Junk Food as Well as Restaurants

In your own acne breakouts diet plan, you need to cease completely your own consumption associated with meals which have been prepared along with trans fat as well as greasy fat. Dining places as well as junk food tend to be locations exactly where you will probably consume absolutely nothing which was not prepared as well as overcooked along with individuals kinds of natural oils. 

Increase The Amount of Proteins a Person Eat

Eating much more meats compared to carbs could be contributive in order to managing your own acne breakouts simply because they reduce the actual secretions from the sweat or even essential oil gland as well as reduce the actual clogging of the follicles. 

Eat Meals Full of Chromium

Like zinc, chromium is actually an additional nutrient that’s efficient with regard to fighting pores and skin bacterial infections. Even though such as chromium in what you eat doesn’t really apply any kind of impact on lowering your acne breakouts, performing which will a minimum of recover your own lesions on the skin rapidly. You discover lots of chromium within beef, entire grains, vegetables and fruit. Dark wine, broccoli as well as garlic clove ought to be elements of the normal foods in your acne breakouts diet plan simply because these types of genuinely have higher chromium content material. Desserts as well as starchy meals tend to be lower in chromium. Which means this is actually an additional cause that you should substitute the majority of your own carb consumption the truth that easy carbs tend to be lacking within chromium.

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The 14-year-old Pakistani teenager activist Malala Yousafzai undergoing treatment in a British hospital continues to make good progress, doctors attending her said.

Dr David Rosser, the medical director of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham in a statement last night said that the team of specialists from hospitals had been "impressed with her strength and resilience."     

Her condition on Monday afternoon was described as "stable" and her response to treatment so far indicated that she could make a good recovery from her injuries.

Messages of support and offers of financial assistance for Malala have been flooding in to the hospital. A message board has been set up on the Trust's website to allow well-wishers to leave their messages of support.     

The teenager schoolgirl was shot last Tuesday in the head by a Taliban gunman for her campaign supporting girls' education. Malala was flown to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in an air ambulance from Pakistan on Monday evening for treatment. 

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A leading British daily on Tuesday suggested that Britain and other countries, who have decided to engage with Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, should "make it clear that rehabilitation is not licence for the type of supremacist inspired nationalism that fuelled the 2002 massacres".

In a strongly-worded editorial, The Financial Times said "The timing (of Britain's decision to engage with Modi) is, however, highly questionable. It comes as Gujarat prepares for elections in December which Mr Modi is expected to win.

"His majority could be enhanced by his new-found international acceptance. Recognition may also boost his chances for India's national elections in 2014, where he is being cited as a possible Prime Minister.”

"Mr Modi is now a far more serious contender than he would have been had he still been shunned internationally".

In the editorial headlined 'Gujarat's Shame, Rehabilitation does not absolve Modi's government', the newspaper said "Modi, chief minister of Gujarat, is one of India's most dynamic and business-friendly states. But for 10 years he has also been an international outcast as the Hindu nationalist leader of a regional government accused of complicity in riots which killed an estimated 2,000 Muslims".

The paper noted that Modi has never expressed any remorse or apologised for the killings. 

No change in stand on Modi: Germany

Germany is not going to follow Britain in re-engaging with the Gujarat government led by chief minister Narendra Modi when the state is going to the polls, the country's ambassador to India said.

"Our stand remains unchanged. There is a domestic elections that will start there (Gujarat) and we do not want to make any statements on it," ambassador Michael Steiner said here.

"UK had informed us before making their announcement. However, our stand is not affected by the UK's decision," he added.

The German envoy was commenting on Britain's recent decision to re-engage with the Gujarat government. Britain was among many other countries that had boycotted the Gujarat government after the 2001 communal riots in the state.

On the trade and investment with India, the envoy said the negativity surrounding the investment environment in India has faded a bit due to the recent decision in allowing foreign direct investment (FDI) in retail and other areas.

"The recent decision on FDI has helped improve the image and atmosphere of investments in India."

On the European financial crisis, the envoy said efforts are being made by EU countries to resolve the crisis, including the use of two instruments -- the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and the Fiscal Compact.

The ESM provides for buying up to 780 billion Euros (around $1 trillion) sovereign bonds of euro zone countries which are under financial stress. The Fiscal Compact envisages a singular economic governance policy for the euro zone, including monetary policy and further integration.

Steiner said that despite the current crisis, Indo-German trade will reach the Euro 20 billion-mark by this year-end.

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In yet another incident of crime against women in Haryana, a 30-year-old married woman was allegedly raped in Lakhan Majra village under Meham sub-division in Rohtak, police said.

 

Though the crime was committed on October 13 night, the victim lodged a complaint with the police in this regard on Tuesday.

 

The alleged rapists are close relatives of the victim's husband. The police registered a case of rape under Section 376 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) against two youths and also arrested them.

 

According to the complaint lodged with the police, the accused, identified as Raj Kumar and Subhash, had forcibly taken the victim to the fields on the outskirt of the village on a motor-bike on October 13 night where the duo allegedly raped her.

 

After a couple of days, the victim narrated the crime to her kin who later approached the police.

Rohtak SP Vivek Sharma reached Lakhan Majra village and questioned the victim and her family members about the incident.

 

Later, the police launched a search around the village and apprehended both the accused.

 

"Both the accused have been arrested and will be produced before a court tomorrow. The accused are also being interrogated to get further information about the crime," said the Rohtak SP.

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Activist-turned politician Arvind Kejriwal, who has attacked Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid and Congress president Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra over the issue of corruption, is expected to come out against BJP president Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday.

Arvind Kejriwal had on Saturday declared that "five top politicians", including BJP president Nitin Gadkari, were next in his firing line. "Five more politicians would be exposed very soon," Kejriwal said. "We have received credible evidence against five top politicians, including Nitin Gadkari," he said.

Now it has to be seen who is in the firing line of Kejriwal Wednesday.

On Monday, RTI activist and India Against Corruption (IAC) member Anjali Damania had alleged that Gadkari had tried to approach her through intermediaries last week. Gadkari allegedly wanted Damania to go slow on Maharashtra's irrigation scam.

"I was told that Gadkari wanted to talk to me privately. I got a few calls last week, but they backed off when I said he will have to meet me in public. I will expose him on Wednesday," she said. An aide of Gadkari, however, denied any such claim.

Damania is expected to be in Delhi for a joint press conference with Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday, during which she may lay out evidence to support the claim against Gadkari.

Meanwhile, Kejriwal on Monday said the number of corrupt political leaders to be exposed by his India Against Corruption in the coming days is growing bigger and may be in double digits, with "insiders" coming forward to voluntarily provide information.

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Speculation of an imminent Cabinet reshuffle gained fresh momentum on Tuesday with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi meeting President Pranab Mukherjee separately.

The end of 'pitr paksh', considered an inauspicious period by Hindus, and the beginning of the navaratra season, set abuzz reports that a change in the government was on the cards, possibly this week.

There was no official word on what transpired at the meetings which fuelled fresh speculation about the changes in the Council of Ministers that could take place before Mukherjee leaves on Oct 20 for his ancestral home in Miriti in West Bengal for Durga Puja festivities.

The Prime Minister's meeting for an hour came in the morning before he left for Hyderabad on a day's visit, while Gandhi met Mukherjee in the evening for 40 minutes.       

There was no certainty over whether Rahul Gandhi, who is also likely to meet Mukherjee on Wednesday, would enter the government in the face of strong demands from the party men to assume a "larger" role.

    

There has been speculation about reshuffle in the Cabinet for quite some time now, especially after the exit of Trinamool Congress ministers both at the levels of Cabinet and Ministers of State levels.

There have been berths vacated by DMK representatives A Raja and Dayanidhi Maran in the last two years after their names cropped in the 2G scam.  However, DMK President M Karunanidhi has recently made clear that his party will not not like to reclaim their lost berths.

Congress sources said that the reshuffle and induction could be largely from the party. There is speculation that some young faces, considered close to Rahul, like Manicka Tagore and Meenakshi Natarajan could be inducted into the council of ministers. 

Some among the young ministers like Sachin Pilot, Jyotiraditya Scindia and Jitin Prasada may get promoted to Cabinet rank or get independent charge as Minister of State.

The exercise could see some of the ministers holding charges of two ministries losing one of the portfolios.

HRD Minister Kapil Sibal (Telecom),  Road and Transport Minister C P Joshi (Railways),  Law Minister Salman Khurshid (Minority Affairs)  and Corporate Affairs Affairs Minister M Veerappa Moily (Power) and Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi (MSME, S and T and Earth Sciences).

     

With six ministers from TMC leaving, two to three Congress leaders from West Bengal are expected to be accommodated. The names of Deepa Dashmunshi and Adhir Choudhury, known detractors of TMC chief Mamata Banerjee and West Bengal PCC chief Pradeep Bhatacharjee are doing the rounds.

A reshuffle of the AICC secretariat is also on the cards and Amethi MP Rahul Gandhi is expected to get a larger responsibility in the organisation.

With the death of Vilasrao Deshmukh, there is a vacancy for a cabinet minister from Maharashtra.

Tourism Minister Subodh Kant Sahai and Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaisawal have come under attack from the Opposition on the coal block allocation issue.

Changes in the government and the party could be taking place in tandem as there is a possibility that some of the ministers would be drafted for party work, sources said.

They said the exercise could be a major affair as the team would be leading the party in the next Lok Sabha polls.

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An Australian politician has questioned Prime Minister Julia Gillard's decision to award an Order of Australia to cricketer Sachin Tendulkar for his contribution to sport.

Federal Independent MP Rob Oakshott who expressed his love for Little Master, said the special award should not be used for diplomatic gain, the ABC news reported.

"I love Sachin Tendulkar, I love cricket. but I just have a problem with soft diplomacy as you call it," he said, adding "Getting in on the act of the Australian honours."

Oakeshott said the Order should be focused on recognizing Australians doing community work instead.

"I'm not going to die in a ditch over it...but it's about the integrity of the honours list which should be for Australians," he said.

He said that Tendulkar was an "obvious diplomatic touch point", and further suggested setting up an inter-nation gong, such as an "Australia-India award".

Yesterday Gillard, who is currently on her three day visit in New Delhi, had announced that Tendulkar would receive the special honour.

"This is a very special honour, very rarely awarded to someone who is not an Australian citizen or an Australian national," she said.

"He is away playing cricket - surprise, surprise – but the award will be conferred on him by Minister Simon Crean when he visits India," he said.

ABC also quoted Australia India Youth Dialogue chairman Ruchir Punjabi as saying that approach has worked with the Indian public.

"I think perhaps the Order of Australia to Sachin Tendulkar is probably going to be bigger than the nuclear issue," he said.

"I think the nuclear issue is a trust issue with the Indian government whereas the Order of Australia to Sachin Tendulkar is going to be the headline in most newspapers here. And I think ... things like that play an important role in bringing the two countries closer," he added.

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Bollywood actress Katrina Kaif has six sisters and one brother. Here are some family photos or you can see it very plain with her accomplice and six sisters. Seeing more closely, one can notice that no one is Indian typed, except for Katrina, which caused a small Indian side surely its anchorage in Bollywood (coloring her hair in another). This could call into question the truth of his origins, remember that Katrina's father is from Kashmir and her mother is British: 

Katrina Kaif Sisters

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