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Empowering the Disabled

Organisations strive to show that the world of a spastic child is no different than the one we all live in

Tough nut to crack

Union budget 2015: Children left asking for their dues, as ever

The most drastic cut in child budget so far has occurred in the 2015-16 budget

Working children find a home in Bangalore

A voluntary group helps street children by organising them into associations and building a home for them.

Shaken innocence

The widely reported case of Matthew Eapen's death has highlighted the ignorance regarding the "shaken baby syndrome"

High on Chinese demand

Rampant illegal iron ore mining in Karnataka's Bellary district

No chapattis

For some young children, wheat is like poison

Duty free

Uttar Pradesh can't deliver vaccines to its children. But it wants to import vaccine

Size does matter

Children's toilets are a breed apart from the everyday adult toilet

Women SHGs run mid-day meal schemes in Orissa schools

How rural kitchen pays

Local procurement for anganwadis can revive rural economy in a big way

Waking up to the horrors of child labour

Several groups are working among child workers in India, seeking to improve their working and living conditions

Will milk fortification benefit the poor?

How the state fails its little ones

Jyotsna Singh visits anganwadis to find out why a large number of children suffer from malnutrition despite welfare programmes for them

Fever still a mystery

Authorities yet to identify cause of deadly disease prevalent in Muzaffarpur for a decade

Left to quacks

Unauthorized medical practitioners find business where Bihar’s health machinery deserts polio victims

Dying in stages

Thirty million HIV-infected people in the world live in developing nations. With no cures in sight, all they can do is wait for death. And lack …

Heavy metal

Vaccines with mercury can cause autism, but removing the metal is uneconomical for developing countries such as India

Knowledge of medicines by indigenous communities receding

Is social sector revenue or capital expenditure?

The beauty & beast of malnutrition

Endgame begins

Experts say India needs to move beyond oral vaccine to battle vaccine-generated polio

Prickly issue

Will the inclusion of Hepatitis B vaccination in the Universal Immunisation Programme help?

Consumed by hunger