A CLINICAL scientist found to have shown a lack of competence in the treatment of teenage cancer patient Lisa Norris was yesterday judged fit to continue to practise.

A MORAY teenager diagnosed with kidney failure is being inspired by her mother's fight back to fitness after a life-saving transplant.

THE United Nations health agency has issued reassurance that swine flu vaccines are safe and only one dose is needed to protect adults and children over ten against the H1N

CHILDREN learn bad drinking habits from their parents and from adverts, research suggests.

THE father of a premature baby accidentally given a glucose overdose said last night he felt "let down" by staff at a leading children's hospital.

A CHARITY is investing more than £3 million in a network it says will transform the way drugs for the rare bone marrow cancer myeloma are tested.

It has been known for long that The Times Group (Bennett, Coleman and Company) is the largest. While the News Corporation-owned Star Group briefly lay claim to number two spot, it is now clear that Subhash Chandra's Zee is way

Shishir Bajaj-promoted Bajaj Hindusthan, India's largest sugar producer, is in talks with its nearest competitor Balrampur Chini Mills to acquire the 36.67 percent stake of the current promoters, the Kolkata-based Saraogis.

Soft drinks and foods major Pepsico India Holdings Pvt Ltd has applied to the Foreign Investment Promotion Board to invest an additional $200 million (around Rs 950 crore) as equity in its Indian operations.

Essar Oil is in talks with Royal Dutch Shell to buy two of its refineries in Germany and one in the UK.

We received an e-mail last week which we passed on to the security agencies concerned. The Bureau of Civil Aviation has also issued an alert. On our part, we are taking all the required security measures," an Air India spokesperson

A highly respected scientist with 35 years of experience in ISRO, 60-year-old Radhakrishnan has played a key role in many of the country's space projects, including Chandrayaan-I.

During Saturday's proceedings, Judge Malik Muhammad Akram Awan declared 14 other suspects linked to the attacks -- including Kasab, the lone terrorist captured alive by Indian authorities during the strikes -- as "absconders," sources said.

His temperature has started coming down and cold and cough is also improving," virologist Atul Patel, one of the five doctors treating Modi, said.

A Delhi court has allowed a plea of the police to conduct a narco analysis test on top Maoist leader Kobad Ghandy as the investigators alleged he did not cooperate with them despite having "thorough knowledge" about banned CPI-Maoist engaged

Two days after a massive fire broke out at the Indian Oil Corporation fuel depot near Jaipur, the flames died down in five of the 11 storage tanks even as three more bodies were recovered from the site on Saturday,

Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that Islamabad saw India's offer of talks "positively," saying solutions to problems between the two countries cannot be found through wars.

You have radical elements in the neighbourhood. Again, you have some people in the northeast who are disgruntled against the state and the system. There is a convergence between the two," Additional Director of Intelligence Bureau R N Ravi told

The Tibetan spiritual leader said he was surprised and saddened by China's criticism of his visit to Tawang monastery in Arunachal Pradesh.

Before Maharashtra assembly commence its first session of Legislature, a political debate has started between the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena and its rival Samajwadi Party with the SP MLA Abu Asim Azmi demanding the House agenda in Hindi.