Lost childhood: COVID-19, floods trigger child trafficking in Bihar

State’s battered economy provides fertile ground to human traffickers

Why India remains malnourished

Despite a fast-growing economy and the largest anti-malnutrition programme, India has the world’s worst level of child malnutrition. The …

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Uranium traces in Punjab children

The search for the source has just begun

Unicef ranks India poorly in child mortality

Bhutan, Nepal and Bangladesh fare better

Breathing uneasy

Threat from occupational exposure to pollutants, especially to young children and pregnant women, is growing rapidly. There is no time for …

Malnutrition count up in Orissa

Debate over mobile towers close to hospitals

ICDS gets packaged food for the malnourished

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

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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 …

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When McDonald’s ate crow

The UK’s longest case was a PR disaster for the fast food giant

Can business be responsible

Children of endosulfan

Several unusual diseases afflict a Kerala village. Residents blame aerial spraying of the pesticide endosulfan by the Plantation Corporation of …

The new obesity

A growing number of people are unable to shed those extra pounds despite strict diet regimes and long hours of workout. Evidence shows that the …

New financing facility to help poor countries reach 2015 development goal

Additional funds will speed up progress on women and child health in developing countries

Now healthy ads sell junk food

Commercials mislead consumers by shifting the focus from poor nutrition to physical exercise

What it takes to deliver midday meal

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