
Thiruvananthapuram: In a horrifying act, a 24-year old hospital canteen worker killed her newborn girl and stashed the body in a handbag on Thursday, intending to dispose it, police said. The woman gave birth to the girl in the bathroom of the hostel where she was staying and choked the infant to death, the police said. She kept it inside the bag intending to dispose off the body. The incident...

11:52 PM, May 03, 2012

New Delhi: Despite a significant increase in women and child healthcare in India, more than nine lakh children in the country still die every year before becoming one-month-old, says a new global report. The study, conducted by experts at the World Health Organisation, Save the Children and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, is said to be the most comprehensive estimate to date, covering all 193 WHO member...

06:13 PM, Aug 31, 2011

The average weight of a newborn in India is 2.5 kilograms to 3.5 kilograms. ...

11:22 AM, Feb 10, 2011

One child of a twin pair was born in late hours of Dec 31, 2010, while the other was born at midnight, when 2011 started. ...

11:06 AM, Jan 05, 2011

The woman was identified as Amandeep Kaur Mann, a resident of Punjab's Hoshiarpur town. ...

09:09 AM, Jul 08, 2010

Hospital authorities have been denying the allegation. ...

05:26 PM, Jan 23, 2010

Parents allege that faulty incubators was the reason. ...

08:58 PM, Nov 16, 2009

Parents can now get their newly-born babies enrolled in schools in advance. ...

01:48 AM, Apr 29, 2009

The recent figures in the report on the State of the World's Children are dismal. ...

02:18 AM, Jan 19, 2009

A 10,000 new born babies are snatched from their families every year. ...

03:01 PM, Sep 09, 2007

Bipin didn’t have money to perform his wife’s last rites so he sold his son. ...

09:33 AM, Jul 11, 2007