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  1. Niger plans to vaccinate nearly 7 million children against poliomyelitis

    At the launch of these National Immunization Days, Health Minister Garba Hakimi indicated that 6,842,491 children under the age of five are affected by the campaign which ends on Monday.He urged local, administrative, customary and religious authorities to become more involved in the...
  2. 10 school students from Himachal Pradesh to visit ISRO center in Gujarat

    Bilaspur (Himachal Pradesh), July 12 (Language) A group of 10 school students from Bilaspur district got a chance to learn about space science and visit the Space Applications Center (SAC) and Gujarat Science City of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). Will get opportunity. Ahmedabad...
  3. 15 children fall ill after lightning strikes a tree in school premises

    Baharampur (West Bengal), At least 15 children fell ill after lightning struck a tree inside a school campus in West Bengal's Murshidabad district on Thursday, an official said.Students of Bhagirathpur High School in Domkal fell ill when lightning struck a tree adjacent to the institute's...
  4. Delhi: Half of the houses were submerged after the water of Munak canal broke and entered Bawana.

    New Delhi, Shivam Kumar, a resident of JJ Colony, woke up to noise in the early hours of Thursday when his house and neighborhood were partially submerged by the flood.Water from the Munak canal entered parts of Bawana after a breach that caused problems for residents in many areas.Talking...
  5. Court convicts man for 'severe sexual assault' of 3-year-old girl in 2022

    New Delhi: A court here convicted a man of committing aggravated sexual assault on a three-year-old girl in 2022, noting that sexual abuse of children is rarely reported due to shame, guilt and family honour.Arguments on the sentence will be heard later.Additional Sessions Judge Susheel Bala...
  6. World Population Day: Focus on the needs of women, youth and marginalized people experts say

    World Population Day is celebrated every year on July 11 to raise awareness about global demographic issues and their impact on society. This year's theme is "Leave no one behind, count everyone."With a population of approximately 142.86 crore, India has overtaken China to become the world's...
  7. AI chatbots Alexa, MyAI, Bing come with 'empathy gap', may harm children

    Research from the University of Cambridge calls on developers and policy makers to prioritize approaches to AI design that take children's needs more into account.The study, published in the journal Learning, Media & Technology, shows that children consider chatbots to be "lifelike, semi-human...
  8. Delhi: More than one lakh children in class 9 and 50000 children in class 10 failed in Delhi government schools.

    New Delhi: More than one lakh students studying in class 9 in Delhi government schools failed in the annual examination in the academic session 2023-24. Similarly, 46 thousand children in class 8th and more than 50 thousand children in class 11th could not pass the annual examination.The Delhi...
  9. Number of children in non-institutional care to increase four-fold between 2021-22 and 2023-24: Government

    New Delhi, according to government data, the number of children in non-institutional care, including those in foster care, has quadrupled between 2021-22 and 2023-24.In the 2021-22 financial year, 29,331 children were covered by non-institutional care. This number increased to 62,675 in...
  10. Couple and two children found dead in Satna, MP; Police started investigation

    Satna (MP), police said a woman and her two minor children were found dead in their home, while her husband's body was recovered from a railway track on Wednesday.Superintendent of Police Ashutosh Gupta told reporters, prima facie it appears that the woman and children have been murdered.He...
  11. After the death of 6 children, now the boy is missing from Indore ashram; Management accused of kidnapping

    Indore, a 16-year-old boy from an Indore-based ashram, where six children died recently, has gone missing, prompting the management to file a complaint alleging that the minor was mentally weak and was kidnapped by an unidentified person, the police reported. he said Wednesday.Six children...
  12. Noida Police warns that parents will be punished if minors are found driving

    Noida, Gautam Buddh Nagar Police Commissioner has issued a stern warning to parents regarding operation of two-wheelers and four-wheelers by persons below 18 years of age.Police have warned a fine of up to Rs 25,000, possible legal action against parents or guardians of underage drivers...
  13. Clash between ruling party and opposition in Kerala Assembly over atrocities on women and children

    Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala Assembly witnessed scandalous scenes on Wednesday as the opposition attacked the Kerala government over the "rising" atrocities against women and children in the state, alleging that they were protecting the CPI(M) activists and sympathizers involved in such cases...
  14. UK sugar tax cuts daily intake by 5g for children and 11g for adults: study

    More than 50 countries have imposed sugar taxes on soft drinks to persuade manufacturers to reformulate their products. In the UK, the sugar tax, also known as the soft drinks industry levy, was announced in March 2016 and came into effect in April 2018.Researchers from the Universities of...
  15. Head of Kiev children's hospital tells UNSC Russia missile attack was 'really hell'

    "We felt a powerful explosion, the ground shook and the walls shook," he said at Tuesday's briefing about the missile bombardment that hit two hospitals in the capital and other targets in Ukraine."Children and adults screamed and cried from fear, and the wounds from pain," she added."We...
  16. Jharkhand: 11 people rescued from railway station, smuggler arrested

    He said that on-duty Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel saw some children and two adults roaming at the corner of a platform of Pakur railway station at around 1:35 pm."While talking to the children, they admitted that they were being taken to Kalyan in Mumbai for work. With the help of...
  17. PhD scholar sentenced to five life terms for sexually assaulting minors, posting clips on web

    New Delhi: A special court in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, on Tuesday sentenced a doctoral scholar to five life terms, to be served concurrently, for sexually assaulting minors and posting videos of the acts on the Internet to earn money, officials said.Victor James Raja, a 35-year-old PhD from...
  18. Adoption: Supreme Court angry over non-functional SAA in 370 districts, warns 29 chief secretaries of contempt proceedings

    New Delhi, The Supreme Court on Tuesday took note of the failure to set up a Specialized Adoption Agency (SAA), aimed at expediting the process of adoption of abandoned and surrendered children, in 370 of the 760 districts of the country, and directed the Chief secretaries of 29 states and UTs...
  19. Publicize helpline number 1098 to tackle child beggary: Delhi HC

    New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked authorities to make public child helpline number 1098 to address cases of child begging in the national capital.The Delhi government informed a bench headed by Acting Chief Justice Manmohan, while dealing with a PIL against child begging, that...
  20. Peace talks cannot succeed amid bombs, guns and bullets: PM Modi to President Putin

    Moscow, Peace dialogue is not successful between bombs, guns and bullets and no solution to any conflict on the battlefield is possible, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, as the two leaders maintained talks under the specter of Ukraine. conflict.In...