
New Delhi: Startling facts have come to light on the International Childhood Cancer Day on Wednesday. India records up to 45,000 new cases every year. Experts have said that this is just the tip of the iceberg. Ten-year-old Zube has been trying to come to terms with the word cancer. Ironically, he was was lucky enough to get diagnosed early, but his treatment was stopped midway and his cancer recurred....

10:22 AM, Feb 15, 2012

Just yesterday I was looking at some Facebook pictures uploaded by one of my friends. The album was titled 'my first trip to a village'. ...

10:21 PM, Jan 20, 2012

Voiceovers: Matthew Broderick, Jeremy Irons, James Earl Jones Director: Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff Once there was a lion cub who accidentally got dropped amid sheep and grew up believing and bawling like sheep. One day when a group of lions waylaid him and asked what a lion was doing amid sheep, he shivered for his life and said he was a sheep. They told him he was a lion and...

03:59 PM, Jul 30, 2011

Sydney: The way we talk to babies is key to building their ability to understand and create sentences of their own. The exaggerated speech we naturally use with tiny toddlers is special register - often called 'motherese', or mother's prattle. "We use changes in pitch and rhythm when we talk to children, and we emphasise important words. This is what children usually learn and produce first," says Katherine Demuth, who...

01:34 PM, May 09, 2011

Nearly 25 million women who married in 2007 younger than 18. ...

03:50 PM, Oct 06, 2009

Childhood diabetes requires a lot of awareness and a positive attitude. ...

07:42 PM, Nov 19, 2008

Melbourne: India skipper MS Dhoni admitted India must find a way to run through the lower-order quickly, in the aftermath of the 122-run loss to Australia in the first Test at the MCG on Thursday. The visitors' inability to polish off the tail had a telling effect on the outcome of the match. India let Australia make 240 in their second innings from the overnight total of 179 for eight,...

04:22 PM, Apr 04, 2008

Chennai: After his Man-of-the-Match effort in his team's easy win over New South Wales in the Champions League T20 here on Saturday, Cape Cobras opener Herchelle Gibbs said he would look to continue his form to stake a claim in the South African team for next year's World T20 Championship. "I would love to (repeat this performance) in every game but there are not easy games in cricket. I enjoy...

08:05 PM, Mar 03, 2008

It's a modern day town with modern day problems including surging rates of obesity. ...

03:17 PM, Jul 01, 2007

Childhood obesity may cause girls to reach puberty at an earlier age, says study. ...

01:39 PM, Mar 05, 2007