The successful landing of India's Chandrayaan on the Moon has inspired families in Odisha's Kendrapara district to name their newborns afte...

In his monthly radio programme Mann Ki Baat, Modi also hailed the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bhubaneswar, for developing a batte...

The first such sponsorship came from the general manager of the zone, Vidya Bhushan himself who sent Rs 5,000 to the mother of a child born...

In 2014, she was banned from competing due to high testosterone levels.

The global average IMR is 29 and that for low and middle income countries, the category that India belongs to, is 34.

The ambitious project has put India on the verge of understanding all diseases that afflict Indians.

A unique tele-imaging screening model that originated in Karnataka and has been taken to other states offers hope to premature babies at a ...

The Srikurmam temple in Srikakulam, which is the only temple in south India dedicated to the Kurmam (tortoise) avatar of Lord Vishnu, may h...

Child sex ratio, that is, the number of girls in the 0-4 year age group for every 1000 boys in the same age group has declined from 914 to ...

At 71 million, India had the largest number of children under the age of five whose births were not registered between 2000-2012.

They were born at a time when cyclone Phailin hit land close to the Gopalpur coast on the October 12 night.

Goa and Kerala seem to be the best place to be born in India, while Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Odisha are the worst.

"If someone wants some content, who are we to control him or her. Instead, India should have its own locally relevant social networks," say...