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State-run Canara Bank has registered an increase of 83% in its net profit, which stood at Rs 1,013 crore during the first quarter (April-June) as compared to Rs 555 crore during the same period of last year (2009-10).

Mr. A. C. Mahajan, Canara Bank chairman and managing director said, "We have posted a record net profit in the first quarter owing to nine-fold jump in income from treasury operations and net interest income (NII) growing by 34 percent YoY to Rs. 1,728 crore from Rs. 1,291 crore year ago."

A plan to offer healthcare at the doorstep of villagers suffering from illnesses such as cancer and water-borne diseases was introduced by the Punjab administration on Saturday.

The state administration along with Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited made announcement about the 'Sanjeevan Swasthya Sewa' by flagging off 10 specially-designed healthcare vans from Mirjeana village adjoining the Haryana border.

Flydubai has commenced its initial flight to Iraq by flying to the city of Erbil, the capital of the Kurdish region.

The low cost airline made this declaration on Saturday.

The FZ201 aircraft finished a three-hour trip to Erbil on Friday after it lifted off from the Dubai International Airport.

Flydubai's chief commercial officer Hamad Obaidalla stated that stability is coming back to Iraq and mainly to the Kurdistan area, and this makes Erbil an important gateway into the country.

Six days after Rekha Gohil (27) gave birth to a baby on the pavement after being turned away by a civic maternity home at Mahim, the municipal corporation suspended a physician and a senior nurse until pending inquiry gets completed.

Rekha's husband, Kishorilal, who works a conservancy worker with the ward office in Dadar, said, "We are thankful to the civic authorities that they took our complaint seriously."

Recently, a treatment is discovered for the deadly disease blood cancer by the researchers from Uppsala University. At present, multiple myeloma, one of the most common blood cancers is incurable but researchers have mange to find out the treatment for this disease.

Researchers have examined several patients suffering from myeloma and discovered that epigenetic mechanisms in the malignant plasma cell put some genes on silence.

In a recent study conducted by a gynecologist, it has been found that the health of the babies of obese mothers is at a risk and such women are more likely to have miscarriages or give birth to malformed babies.

It has been found that almost 50 per cent of overweight mothers give birth through caesarean section, in many cases weeks before the child is due to be born.

The statistics say that twenty five per cent of the babies born to obese women have a weight more than 4kg and this, along with the weight of their mother, can lead to problems during birth.