Poor understanding of maternal, infant mortality rates & misuse of law behind Assam child marriage crackdown
State’s poor health performance lies in larger developmental issues; Prohibition of Child Marriage and POCSO Acts being misinterpretated
Green lore
Environment has been intrinsic to our oral traditions much before we developed writing. But it is only in the past decade or two that …
Sudan conflict fallout: Over 1,200 children have died in country amid healthcare crisis, says UN
Children died from suspected measles and malnutrition; those under five account for over three-quarters of all deaths
The secret garden
Want to know about a lost variety of rice or a cure to asthma? Answers lie in the notebooks of schoolchildren and women of the Sundarbans and …
COVID-19, poverty may have spurred child marriages in India: Activists
Numbers show one in every four in India is a child marriage, but ground situation may be even worse
Breathing easy
A hundred medicines, a dozen therapies but no cure, that is the story of asthma treatment world wide. Complementary medicine fill the vacuum
Gasping millions
Asthma, the bane of modern life, stalks the young ones and the affluent. It will strike 32 million people in India by 2010. The silent strangler …
A third of world’s children are poisoned by lead, says UNICEF report
India accounts for 275,561,163 of these children; lead levels in blood of Indian children show they can lose four intelligence quotient points …
Less than 500 days left, can India meet its MDG targets?
Going by current trends, the target for reducing infant mortality and improving other human development indices seem near impossible to achieve
India struggles to keep its children healthy, say experts
Lack of credible data and co-ordinated action slow country’s efforts to contain malnutrition
Poor kids rarely get free treatment in private hospitals of Delhi: study
Quota for free treatment of economically weaker sections in private hospitals under-utilised; less than half of the children referred from …
Most infant deaths in India occur on first day of birth
The country accounts for 29 per cent of the global deaths of newborns on their first day of birth
More dreams sans cars
From a loose concept to a concrete movement, the idea of the car-free city has evolved gradually
Child malnutrition is down: survey
Prevalence of underweight children down from 76 to 43 per cent for boys, 74 to 42 per cent for girls over past four decades, says …
Owning the road
Cities without cars, pollution and traffic. A movement is spreading across Europe to drive cars out. People are beginning to say no to cars
Billowing Rage
The Sukruli cauldron threatens to boil over if the Orissa government does not act against the smoke-spewing sponge iron plant in the area.
Major revamp of ICDS recommended
Inter-ministerial report calls for improving infrastructure and facilities at anganwadi centres
Malnutrition: India needs to urgently break inter-generational cycle
Under-nourished women, in all likelihood, became under-nourished mothers with a greater chance of giving birth to low birth-weight babies, …
5 tips to help parents navigate the unique needs of children with autism learning from home
Research shows adapting teaching to incorporate students’ special interests can help students on the autism spectrum learn academic and …
Malnourished, under-weight children in India can increase by more than 4 mln: Study
The COVID-19 pandemic can contribute to food shocks that make children more prone to malnourishment
Could Bhopal gas victims have got more compensation?
A 1988 confidential letter by JRD Tata to Rajiv Gandhi reveals Union Carbide was willing to pay a higher compensation in case of an out-of-court …
Born dead
In the story from the great Indian epic, Mahabharat , the legendary hero Arjun was once telling his wife Shubhadra how to penetrate the …
Elementary failure
Since the Right To Education Act came into force on April 1, 2010, India has been witnessing an experiment that involves parents in enforcing a …