Actor-politician Shatrugan Sinha is fine but he will have to have to stay in the hospital till his discharge date is finalised, his son Luv Sinha said Friday.

Ailing Nelson Mandela's wife on Monday thanked people from across the world for their love that helped lighten the ‘burden of anxiety,’ as the 94-year-old anti-apartheid icon spent his tenth day in hospital.

Brushing aside as "a closed chapter" the developments in the party following elevation of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha on Wednesday said it would not affect the prospects of the party in elections.

Nelson Mandela's health has improved but his condition remained serious, South African President Jacob Zuma said.

Researchers have claimed that literacy has a greater impact on public health in India than income. The researchers from Cambridge's Department of Sociology, accepted that it is mostly true that "wealthier is healthier" across the roughly 500 districts in India's 'major states,' accounting for 95 percent of the total population, but found that poverty and, more crucially, illiteracy are much stronger indicators of poor public health than low average income.

Actor-politician Shatrughan Sinha, one of the best known Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders from Bihar, has reportedly thrown his weight behind BJP patriarch L K Advani, who relinquished all party posts after Narendra Modi was named the lead campaigner for the 2014 general elections.

Fewer than 50 percent of primary school aged boys and fewer than 28 percent of girls meet the minimum levels of physical activity required to maintain health.

According to eminent Indian physicist Bikash Sinha, Indian students must come forward for dark matter research, the big thing right now following the discovery of the elusive God particle.

BJP leader Yashwant Sinha on Sunday slammed reports that he was "anti-Modi" and said that he was the first in the party to speak for the Gujarat Chief Minister.

Nelson Mandela continues to recover in hospital from a lung infection but remains in a serious condition, South African President Jacob Zuma said on Sunday.