BELGAUM - In a rare instance in the medical field, an Ayurveda (traditional Indian medicine) doctor in this north Karnataka city Saturday dissected the embalmed body of his father to teach anatomy to his students.

NEW DELHI - President Pratibha Patil Saturday termed women's education as the most important determinant for good health of women and children.

NEW DELHI - They are chirpy, confident and full of the energy - like all children are - but for one difference. They are HIV-positive, and some are even afflicted with AIDS.

NEW DELHI - Five curable diseases accounted for nearly 1.5 million child deaths in India in the year 2005, a study said Saturday.

LONDON - Britain's fattest man, who weighed 50-stone, has undergone surgery in India after doctors in the UK told him that he was too fat for the operation to be conducted there.