New Delhi: Celebrities are always under scanner for their behaviour in public. There are celebrities who are better known for their public conducts than their actual businesses. The situation becomes complex when the common mass starts to make ideals out of the celebrities. Everything from their dressing sense to their weight needs to be prim and proper. The emergence of new media has given the people a space to express...
11:38 AM, May 03, 2012
Mexico City: A Mexican woman is pregnant with nine babies - six girls and three boys - the country's main broadcaster Televisa reported on Thursday night. The woman was identified as Karla Vanessa Perez of the northeastern state of Coahuila, which borders Texas. She is currently being treated at a hospital in the state capital Saltillo, the broadcaster said in the report. Perez, whose age was not given, had fertility...
11:06 AM, Apr 27, 2012
Muzaffarnagar: A woman gave birth to a child in a jeep after a government hospital allegedly refused to admit her at Uttar Pradesh's Baghpat district, officials said. The incident took place on Sunday when Vikram brought his wife Nilam to a primary health centre in Baghpat after she complained of labour pain. He alleged that doctors at the health centre demanded bribe to admit his wife. Vikram then decided to...
01:49 PM, Apr 09, 2012
Dehradun: A student of Class IX of a government school has given birth to a baby girl in the hill town of Mussoorie, prompting the police to launch an investigation in the matter. The 16-year-old girl, who hails from Arunanchal Pradesh, was living in the hostel of the Central government-run school for Tibetans in Mussoorie and she gave birth to the baby at a hospital on Friday, where she was...
09:33 AM, Feb 25, 2012
New Delhi: There were reports last year that reality TV couple Rahul and Dimpy Mahajan were expecting their first child together. Dimpy confirmed the news, but informed that she suffered a miscarriage. "It is true I was pregnant. But since doctors advise you to not reveal the news until the first three months, we didn't speak about it. But I don't know how this news leaked. Unfortunately I suffered a...
02:55 PM, Feb 10, 2012
New Delhi: A study has revealed that usage of birth control pills puts one at a greater risk for developing clogged veins and arteries. Popular birth control pills, Yaz and Yasmin, may leave one at a higher risk of clogged veins and arteries. In the US, the FDA has asked for new warning labels, which is something pharma major Bayer has said it will do. Yaz and Yasmin are the...
10:06 AM, Dec 19, 2011
Hyderabad: A pregnant woman was allegedly transfused with HIV positive blood in Nellore after she underwent a caesarean operation. Angry relatives staged a day-long protest against the hospital and the Red Cross society. An inquiry has now been ordered. "She was healthy throughout her pregnancy. Even her baby is healthy. After her delivery, the hospital said she is HIV positive. How is that possible? It is obviously because of the...
07:41 AM, Dec 14, 2011
Mangalore: The much publicised baby showers and then the birthday celebration of mother-to-be Aishwarya Rai, has hardly kindled the gambling instincts of punters in Mangalore. But punters in Mumbai and New Delhi bet heavily in crores on Aishwarya's baby, expected in the second week of November. Punters in her birth place Mangalore are hardly breaking knuckles. The indifference of bettors in this port city with a long history of entrepreneurship...
10:58 AM, Nov 08, 2011
New Delhi: Eight months and expecting, the Bachchan bahu Aishwarya is going to have her god bharai or baby shower today, according to media reports. Aishwarya and Abhishek are expecting their bundle of joy in November. Amitabh Bachchan had announced the pregnancy news to the Bollywood fraternity and fans over Twitter in June. The tweet send the whole industry in to a tizzy for not only was the first family...
10:59 AM, Oct 18, 2011
Los Angeles: R&B star Beyonce's pregnancy news took Twitter by storm, shattering the micr-blogging site's record of the highest number of sent tweets per second. The 29-year-old singer smiled and clutched her burgeoning belly to announce the big news at the MTV video music awards on Sunday and said "I have a surprise" as she posed for photos on the red carpet. "Last night at 10:35pm, Beyonce's big MTV VMA...
12:41 PM, Sep 01, 2011
New York: Babies born to snuff-using mothers were more likely to have breathing problems than those whose mothers smoked while pregnant, according to a Swedish study. Snuff -- ground tobacco that is high in nicotine but doesn't generate the same additional chemicals as cigarette smoke because it's not burned -- is generally assumed to be safer than cigarettes, said lead researcher Anna Gunnerbeck, from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. That's...
12:23 PM, Sep 01, 2011
New York: Children whose mothers smoked while pregnant were more likely to end up on medications such as antidepressants, stimulants and drugs for addiction, according to a study from Finland that hints at smoking's effect on a baby's developing brain. While the findings don't prove that cigarette smoking during pregnancy causes changes in children's brains or behaviour, they offer one more piece of evidence that should encourage women not to...
01:58 PM, Aug 29, 2011
New Delhi: Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan's child is due to be born in November this year and already speculations are rife about the sun sign of the newborn and the stars governing its future. If a new Zodiac sign Ophiuchus, star sign No. 13, is recognized, there is a good chance that Aishwarya and Abhishek's offspring may well be born under the sign. Ophiuchus is a rarely used astrological...
07:10 PM, Aug 01, 2011
Mumbai: The stalling of Madhur Bhandarkar's Heroine after it became known that lead actress Aishwarya Rai was expecting has stoked a debate on introducing a pregnancy clause in film contracts. Some feel it should be there, while others like Sushmita Sen and Ram Gopal Varma oppose it. Aishwarya's pregnancy came as a big blow to Bhandarkar's ambitious project and he said he was "shocked" and "depressed" after the film was...
03:18 PM, Jul 07, 2011
New Delhi: After a grand first look release at 64th Cannes Film Festival, Madhur Bhandarkars self proclaimed magnum opus " Heroine " has been stalled due to Aishwarys Rai Bachchans pregnancy. The announcement from the first family of Bollywood came through a tweet from the Big B and Bhandarkar was reportedly in jitters. After apparently spending four crores on the project already, the director now must either stall shooting till...
04:55 PM, Jun 29, 2011
London: Move over dads! A happy mother makes a greater contribution to her child's overall happiness than the father, a study suggests. In a survey of 6,441 women, 5,384 men and 1,268 children aged between 10 and 15 years, from 40,000 households, 60 percent of young say they are 'completely satisfied' with their family situation. But in families where the child's mother is unhappy in her partnership, only 55 percent...
11:55 AM, Apr 04, 2011
London: A 12 year-old Dutch girl, who did not realise she was pregnant, delivered a baby girl when she was on a school trip. "Neither the girl nor her family had realised she was pregnant, and there were no external signs to show it," the Telegraph quoted a spokesperson for health services as saying. The girl is from Groningen in the north of the Netherlands. She felt violent stomach pain...
03:19 PM, Mar 30, 2011
Jaipur: Fifteen women have died so far after childbirth, in a Jodhpur government hospital. Even after three weeks, authorities are still clueless about the cause of deaths. Preliminary reports have suggested contaminated IV fluid behind cause of the deaths. A panel sent by the Central Government to probe the deaths has also pointed towards other factors. The factors include untrained doctors administering IV fluid and lack of hygiene in operation...
09:18 AM, Mar 11, 2011
15 women have died so far after childbirth, authorities are still clueless about the cause of deaths. ...
08:28 AM, Mar 11, 2011
Jaipur: Rajasthan Government has announced a compensation of Rs 5 lakh each to the families of the women who died after being allegedly administered contaminated intravenous fluids at two hospitals in Jodhpur. At an high-level meeting in Jaipur on Saturday night, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot also directed the Jodhpur Divisional Commissioner to probe the deaths and submit a report within 15 days. At least 13 women have died and three...
12:45 PM, Feb 27, 2011
