A study conducted by British researchers on 2645 pregnant women, with average age 30 and with low risk pregnancies revealed that even low amount of caffeine could lead to low weight babies. 

It was found that the average caffeine intake during pregnancy was 159 milligrams a day which is much lower than the 300 mg/day recommended by the U.K.'s Food Standards Agency. Tea was the main source of caffeine (62 %), followed by coffee (14%), cola (12%), chocolate (8%) and soft drinks (2%).

According to a British study conducted on more than 22,000 adults, including 517 with diabetes, it was revealed that eating fish twice a week can reduce the risk of kidney damage in diabetics.

The subjects answered questionnaires about their diet habits. This also included how much fish they ate in a week. The urine samples of the participants in the survey were analyzed for the presence of a protein called albumin. Presence of albumin in urine is an indicator of kidney damage.

The prevailing stiff global financial conditions have impacted the export business of the country. Exports growth remained less at 10.4 percent in September 2008. However, import business has grown by 43.3 percent for the same period.

India's export stood at $13.74 billion during September 2008 as per the provisional figures released by the Department of Commerce. It was $12.45 billion in the same period last year. Exports grew by 36.7 per cent at Rs 4,05,118 crore during April-September 2008 in terms of Indian currency. It was Rs 2, 96,423 crore in the same period of last year. 

US credit card and banking giant, American Express is likely to start retrenchment drive in India and other locations. It would retrench about 10 percent workforce, cutting around 7,000 jobs. The staff would be eliminated in all business units, including markets and staff groups. Some staff in its Indian operations is also likely to be laid off.

SBI Card would release a financial package for defaulting clients. SBI card is the joint venture company of State Bank of India and GE Money. SBI card intends to help those customers who have been good at repaying in the past, but have failed to repay following the turbulent global financial conditions. The company said that it would restructure its card-portfolio to check further defaults.

The South Korean steel giant, Posco is committed to complete Posco's Orissa project, despite global financial crisis. The director of Posco-India project, Mr Sung said that the global slowdown would not affect the project and company would go for Rs 51,000 crore projects in Orissa. He also reviewed the work of the project during a meeting called by the chief secretary Mr Ajit Tripathy.