FOR A young couple in Dholpur district, there was a pleasant surprise from the district collector at a recent public function - an award of Rs 5,000 for ensuring that the mother gave birth to her first child after 21 years of age.

Washington, May 12 : A new study has confirmed that childhood and adolescent obesity negatively impacts vascular endothelial function, which in turn is linked to cardiac health.

If you look hard enough, optimists keep reminding us, there is always a bright side. And it is in that spirit that I detect a possible ray of light in our bloated cabinet, in the newly created Ministry for Public Health and Sanitation.

U.N. Security Council nations demanded on Thursday that warring governments and factions act to halt violence against women, saying rape was no longer just a by-product of war but a military tactic.

LONDON -(Dow Jones)- The U.K. economy is in line for two years of sub-trend growth from 3.1% in 2007 to 1.8% this year followed by 1.5% in 2009, unless the government takes firm and decisive action, according to the Ernst & Young ITEM Club Spring forecast