Various studies have established health hazards of exposure to second-hand smoke. Recent research has revealed one more health hazard faced by women due to exposure to second hand smoke. The study showed that women, who are exposed to second hand smoke, either as children or as adults have 68 percent more risk of fertility problems and miscarriage.

Researchers analyzed data collected from 4,800 non-smoking women. The study participants were asked to give details of their pregnancies, attempts to get pregnant, and miscarriages, as well as their history of smoking and breathing second-hand smoke. 

According to WHO, taking 10 mg melamine a day is not harmful for a person who weighs 50 kg. International experts added that melamine is a contaminant that should not be in food. However, sometimes it is unavoidable. 

Chen Junshi, a senior researcher with the National Institute for Nutrition and Food Safety said that WHO's daily limit is a guideline for all countries to control their melamine standards.

DOH(Department of health) spokesman Wang Je-chau said the WHO’s suggestion [of a melamine TDI] is important for us. But to set up a TDI in Taiwan, we need to take into consideration the eating habits of Taiwanese ... and the quantity of food consumption.

With the Congress appearing set to make a hat-trick in the Delhi assembly elections, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Monday said the people of the national capital voted for the party's development agenda.

"I congratulate the people of Delhi and many many thanks to them for their support and affection for the Congress," the 77-year-old leader said.

"We went to the polls on the development ground with honesty and unity, and people have voted for that," Dikshit said.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national President Rajnath Singh described the Delhi poll results as "quite unexpected" and "shcoking" on Monday.

In Delhi the results were quite unexpected and shocking," Rajnath Singh told at the BJP headquarters. He said the BJP also considered the loss of Rajasthan "unexpected".

He said the BJP wins in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, which it has ruled since 2003, "were as expected".

As many as 55 percent voters exercised their franchise in the fourth phase of Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections on Sunday.

Stray incidents of violence were reported from some areas of 18 assembly segments in four districts that went to poll in the fourth phase.

The voting was spread over Baramulla, Udhampur, Budgam and Reasi districts.

Minutes after the start of polling in Baramulla district, militants exploded a hand grenade on Sopore- Sangrama road but there was no report of loss of life or damage to property.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Malda on Sunday was cancelled due to bad weather at Purnea and he has returned to Delhi from Kolkata.

He left the NSC Bose International Airport in Kolkata at 9.30 am.

West Bengal Chief Secretary Amit Kiran Deb told that, the Prime Minister was to fly to Purnea from Kolkata and reach Malda from there in a helicopter. "As the weather is bad in Purnea he has left for Delhi."

The district Congress leaders of Malda had requested the PM to contest the Parliamentary elections from the North Malda constituency created after delimitation