Birth
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Planning a safe pregnancy: Expert tips to prevent birth defects in India
Health | Feb 12, 2026, 01:08 PM ISTPreventing birth defects begins even before conception and continues throughout pregnancy. In India, awareness about prenatal care, proper nutrition, timely vaccinations and regular medical check-ups plays a crucial role in ensuring a healthy baby.
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Russia launches scheme to boost birth rate, offers money to schoolgirls for having children
World | Jul 05, 2025, 11:50 PM ISTRussia has launched a controversial scheme offering money to adult schoolgirls to boost birth rates amid a deepening demographic crisis.
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India's health survey links air pollution to 13percent premature births, 17percent low birth weight
Health | Jul 04, 2025, 01:07 PM ISTThe researchers looked at the National Family Health Survey-5 and remote sensing data to analyse how exposure to air pollution in pregnancy impacted the delivery outcomes. They found that an increased exposure to PM2.5 during pregnancy caused low birth weight and premature births. Read on.
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Chinese woman learns she's pregnant just hours before giving birth, here's what happened next
Trending | Jan 09, 2025, 01:32 PM ISTA thirty-six-year-old Chinese woman discovered just four hours before her delivery that she was pregnant. Doctors performed surgery to safely deliver the baby. Read more about it here.
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Delhi records decline in birth rate in post-COVID era, dips from 18.35 to 14.85 per 1000 population
Delhi | Aug 26, 2024, 09:00 PM ISTThe report said the ratio of 67:33 was observed between institutional and domiciliary death events registered last year. The proportion of non-institutional events decreased from 36.28 per cent in 2022 to 33.06 per cent in 2023.
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Haryana: Woman gives birth under mobile phone light in Jind
India | Apr 13, 2022, 10:06 AM ISTThe woman's mother-in-law said she was taken to a health centre in Pegga village on Monday night as she was in labour.
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Woman gives birth to first known baby with antibodies against coronavirus, doctors say
World | Mar 18, 2021, 03:21 PM ISTPediatricians have reported the first known case of a woman, who was given the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine during her pregnancy, giving birth to a baby with antibodies against the novel coronavirus.
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Vastu Shastra: Know your radix from date of birth
Astrology | Feb 10, 2021, 09:31 AM ISTThe relation of Vastu Shastra and numerals is considered very special. If you place an object according to Vastu in the directions related to these marks, you will benefit greatly.
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Baby born on Shramik Special train in Odisha, 37th delivery onboard trains for migrants so far
India | Jun 05, 2020, 01:05 PM ISTA 19-year-old migrant woman, who was returning home in Odisha after being stuck in Telangana due to the lockdown, gave birth to a baby on a Shramik Special train on Friday, railway officials said.
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Qatar plane makes emergency landing after woman gives birth midair
World | Feb 04, 2020, 03:57 PM ISTA Bangkok-bound Qatar Airways flight from Doha made an emergency landing in Kolkata in the wee hours of Tuesday after it was diverted to facilitate the medical treatment of a Thai national in the advanced stage of pregnancy.
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US imposes visa rules for pregnant women on ‘birth tourism’
World | Jan 23, 2020, 11:00 PM ISTThe Trump administration on Thursday published new visa rules aimed at restricting “birth tourism,” in which women travel to the United States to give birth so their children can have U.S. citizenship.
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Quit smoking to lower risk of premature birth
Health | Apr 20, 2019, 10:53 PM ISTThere are plenty of negative health impacts of cigarette smoking during pregnancy.
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Woman in vegetative state for decade gives birth
World | Jan 06, 2019, 07:19 AM IST"None of the staff were aware that she was pregnant until she was pretty much giving birth"
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British man set to become first male to give birth to baby
World | Jan 08, 2017, 11:13 PM ISTIn what may prove to be bizzare, a British man has decided to pause his gender reassignment process so he could give birth and is expected to become the first UK male to do so.
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Thyroid medicine may reduce risk of birth complications, claims study
Lifestyle | Nov 10, 2016, 11:25 AM ISTThe number of pregnant women given a common drug to boost thyroid hormone levels may lead to a reduced number of still-births, early caesarean sections and low-weight babies, according to a new study. Lead author
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SEE PIC! NASA's SOFIA captures birth of new stars from collapse of six interstellar clouds
World | Oct 06, 2016, 03:09 PM ISTAdding another feather to its cap, NASA researchers on board it's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) have detected the collapse of portions of six interstellar clouds on their way to becoming new stars much
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US world's most expensive country to give birth, reveals study
World | Sep 16, 2016, 10:23 AM ISTThe US is the most expensive place in the world for women to give birth, according to a new study The survey comprising of 14 developed countries undertaken by the UK medical journal The
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Woman stuns doctors, gives birth to supersized 6-kg baby boy
India | Sep 05, 2016, 10:44 AM ISTIn a rare incident, a six-kg baby boy was born on Saturday morning at Niloufer Hospital in Hyderabad. As per media report, Shabana Begum, 29, who was diagnosed as diabetic in the first two
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Children having low birth-weight likely to be less active in adulthood, says study
Lifestyle | Sep 04, 2016, 10:42 AM ISTChildren born with a low birth weight are less likely to be good at sports at school, or to engage in exercise later in life, a study has found. The findings showed that those with
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Weight gain during pregnancy may risk premature birth, claims study
Lifestyle | Aug 19, 2016, 01:32 PM ISTWeight gain after a certain point has a big role to play in children being born premature, as per new study. Abnormalities in interval between pregnancies, mother’s body mass index (BMI) prior to pregnancy and