India has made no progress on anaemia, childhood wasting: Global Nutrition Report

India ‘off-course’ in meeting 7 of 13 global nutrition targets, according to this year’s report on global nutrition  

Villages inside forest near Guwahati struggle for basic amenities

Lack of health infrastructure and medical personnel in inaccessible areas is a perennial problem in Assam

Extreme weather impact: 20,000 children displaced every day in last 6 years

At least three of every 10 persons displaced across the world due to weather-related disasters was a child

Paediatric beds fill up in West Bengal as adenovirus spreads, 3 deaths recorded

Doctors have seen an at least 50 per cent increase in cases this year compared to usual

World Mental Health Day: WHO-FIFA installs friendship benches to promote mental-health awareness

Project focuses on sports’ role in promoting mental well-being

Child trafficking in Odisha continues unabated: 20 teenagers rescued

The children, mostly girls, were rescued from a railway station 

As told to Parliament (March 25, 2021): Centre shares guidelines for imposing green tax on old vehicles

All that was discussed in the House through the day

Reversal of gains: Haryana, a state with historically poor sex ratio, is fast losing its hard-won gains in recent years

Latest sex ratio numbers, accessed by DTE through the Right to Information Act suggested the situation has again started to worsen in …

Odisha’s Ganjam district is now free of child marriages

Ganjam, known to be severely affected by child marriages, is Odisha’s first district to be declared child marriage free

‘One in three couldn’t afford food year-round in 2020’

Pandemic-induced poverty and rise in food prices keep healthy diet out of reach of three billion people

International Women’s Day: 10 million more girls at risk of child marriage due to COVID-19, warns UNICEF

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, as many as 100 million girls were at the risk of child marriage in the next decade

Children with cancer: WHO estimates 55-85% in low- and middle-income countries get no treatment

Nearly 69% of southeast Asia’s cases of acute lymphoid leukemia, the most common cancer in children, were in India

Africa Union Commission calls for acceleration of efforts towards malnutrition-free Africa

Experts at the meeting called to strengthen school feeding programmes to alleviate hunger, reap psychological benefits like increased …

Mid-day meal price hike less than Re 1 as food inflation hits record level

The annual rise of material price came after a pause of 2 years because of the pandemic

More harm than good: New study scans global treaties on environment, rights

Kyoto protocol was not not as successful as finance and trade treaties

No school can be without a playground: Supreme Court

SC gives a year’s time to encroachers to vacate Gram Panchayat land meant for school

What makes one poor in India

Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2022 shows lack of access to nutrition, fuel, housing and sanitation keeps millions in poverty

Climate change will cause more African children to die from hot weather

There were between 12,000 and 19,000 heat-related child deaths per year in Africa from 2011 through 2020

India’s monkeypox outbreak may not be linked to European superspreader events

NIV-Pune finds evidence of another lineage in Kerala samples; it suggests a distinct cluster of human-human transmission, possibly unrecognised …

Nearly 10 million children in Horn of Africa in ‘greatest danger’ due to drought, says UNICEF

UNICEF has sought $250 million to help children facing drought in the region  

Union Budget 2021-22: India's nutrition programme put on a diet

The budget has proposes Mission Poshan 2.0 to improve nutritional status of the country but has reduced funds  

World Bank study reveals high temperatures linked to lower exam scores in Ethiopia

Students exposed to higher temperatures during the school year, particularly on exam days, tend to perform worse than their cooler-climate …

A new child needs to be enrolled in school every 2 seconds to meet 2030 target: UNESCO

There are now 250 million children not enrolled in school, compared to 244 million in 2021

Ground report: Climate disasters in Bihar, UP make children more vulnerable to trafficking

Trafficking rackets use climate disasters as opportunities, say experts

Investment in girls’ education critical to arrest child marriages in Jharkhand

In Jharkhand, child marriages account for 7.3 per cent of marriages in rural areas and 3 per cent in urban areas