One in every 3 southern African children are stunted: Report

Major drivers of malnutrition include lack of diversity and sub-optimal infant feeding practices prevailing in the region

'We need better awareness to stop this trend of old age pregnancies'

Jaideep Malhotra, president of the Indian Society for Assisted Reproduction (ISAR) and director of Rainbow IVF, talks to Down To Earth about the …

Africa’s children need help coping with a myriad of stresses, not just HIV

The global health community has made significant progress over the past 15 years to understand how to keep HIV-positive children alive and …

No kidding

Mr SUN TAKES A HOLIDAY IN SEARCH OF WATER MADAME AIR WANTS A CHANGE MEET THE SOIL FAIRY Dilip M Salwi Publisher: Ratna Sagar P Ltd, New Delhi …

The economics of teenage pregnancies

A study finds teenage pregnancies occur more frequently in socially backward areas than affluent areas, but the opposite holds true for abortions

Education must boost unity, end superstition

Learning in the present social context should lay more stress on inculcating social and ethical values that would bring Indians closer to each other.

Who will help her learn?

Merely providing schools is not enough to educate the more than 197.34 million illiterate women in India. Far too often, girls have to drop out …

Early education is the key to reducing birth rate

Every rupee invested on four years of primary education for girls would yield returns worth Rs 10 of investment on advertising contraceptive …

Harsh reality goads Nepal NGOs into action

Environmental degradation in Nepal has spurred several non-governmental organisations into working on conservation measures, including teaching …

When science is fun

Children are more likely to develop the spirit of scientific inquiry when they treat science like a game than when they have to study it.

Projecting a distorted reality

A documentary for British children presents an inaccurate and oversimplified image of India.

SPOTLIFGHT

Come hither ye men; come hither ye women; come one come together" is a cry often associated with Indian villages, but this one emanates from …

Under the umbrella

A residential school in Chamtagora has relieved the anxieties of migrant workers native to the area, who spend most of the year away from their …

Necessary evil

Otherwise considered vital for human health, vitamin A is now believed to endanger the well-being of new borns, if consumed in excess

Dirty RIVER blues

Children of Delhi rediscover Yamuna. And see how everything is being done to reduce it to a drain

Direct to home

Where would homeless children broadcast their view of the world? The streets, of course, says SOPAN JOSHI

‘Need to be accompanied biggest reason for girl student drop outs’

New study says 90 per cent of over 3,000 girls in 1,604 households across four states claimed this to be the reason

TV teacher

Infectious and wholesome

COVID-19: More than 28,000 children died of cancer in sub-Saharan Africa in 2020

Travel restrictions mean children with cancer can’t seek hospital care in time

Africa: We must go beyond singular responses in the fight against child poverty

Policies need to address in all the complexities of child poverty

Fetching water from miles away increases risk of death: UK study

'Children of women who fetch water in this manner are especially disadvantaged'

Children of a lesser god

Short-shrift to environment

A recent festival of short films bombed -- by and large

Cheaper than wine or beer