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

Troubled by breath

Those who have had fewer respiratory diseases when young are the ones who are more susceptible to asthma

"Children are affected by lead poisoning"

VEENA KALRA, who is with the department of paediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, is conducting research to …

LEAD ALERT!

Dilution is not a solution for any kind of pollution, says T Venkatesh , professor and head of department of biochemistry and biophysics at St …

Beyond the acceptance level

Children in the US suffer lower IQ levels even at acceptable levels of lead in the blood

For children's sake

Public pressure forces US agency to reconsider proposed move to suspend paediatric drug testing rule

Demand charter from children for education, health sectors

Report>>Ensuring Universal Access To Health and Education in India, Wada Na Todo Abhiyan, Delhi 2007

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 …

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 …

Young Innovators

World Health Assembly: health issues of women, children and elderly in focus

Health facilities available for older people are unequally distributed across the world

Dissent and democracy

Forty years after the Emergency was declared, India must revisit its legacy of dissent

Children's swaraj

Karnataka turns governance into child's play with kids' assemblies

A healthy child, a healthy nation

Our country, our mess

How's India doing in providing basic social services?

Nightmare festivals

There is growing concern over the pollution caused by festivals like Diwali

Dial R for radiation

The government asks schoolchildren in the UK to restrict the use of mobile phones

Where cancer lurks

Incidence of leukaemia is higher among children when both the parents are migrants

Experiments with truth

Innovative science teaching scheme relegated to supplementary status

Perpetually ill-prepared

Inept response as mystery fever grips Uttar Pradesh

Stone-age women killed furry babies, research suggests

As told to Parliament (February 7, 2024): India had over 32 million stunted children as of December 2023

Underweight and wasting levels lower than that projected by National Family Health Survey-5, says Smriti Irani

Balarama Digest: Kid stuff?

If you think free publicity, like 'free lunch', is a no-no in this newly liberalised world of ours, you have got it all wrong. Take a dekko at …

World Food Day: Looking for a new avatar in COVID-19 times

What we now need is smart, systemic action to get the food to those who need it and improve it for those who have it, says FAO Director-…

FSSAI must ensure food regulations at schools are mandatory

Despite directions and advisories, foods high in fat, salt and sugar are easily available in schools; this calls for stricter and mandatory …