Asia-Pacific unlikely to meet hunger, child mortality goals
February 17th, 2012 - 8:54 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 17 (IANS) The Asia-Pacific region has made big gains in reducing poverty, but is unlikely to meet the targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on eradicating ... Read more...
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Half of Indian kids under five underweight: NGO
February 15th, 2012 - 11:24 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Feb 15 (IANS) Around 48 percent of children under five years of age in India are underweight, ranging from 20 percent of the child population (under-five years) in Sikkim ... Read more...
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Shortage of health workers increases child deaths: NGO
September 20th, 2011 - 8:00 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) Facing a shortage of 2.6 million health workers, millions of children below the age of five in India are at risk of dying every year ... Read more...
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India, others making efforts to save children, women: UN
September 20th, 2011 - 1:04 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) Countries around the world, including India, are making significant progress in efforts to save the lives of women and children who die of preventable causes, ... Read more...
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Mum who fails to toilet-train kids loses custody
July 15th, 2011 - 2:30 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, July 15 (IANS) An overprotective Australian mother who did not toilet-train her two kids, has lost their custody to their father.The woman kept her son in nappies until well ... Read more...
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Parton launches free book scheme
March 7th, 2011 - 6:34 pm ICT by IANS
London, March 7 (IANS) Country music superstar Dolly Parton has reportedly launched a project to provide free books to children in foster care across Scotland.The 65-year-old has initiated it ... Read more...
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Armed conflicts rob 28 million kids of education
March 2nd, 2011 - 9:13 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 2 (IANS) Calling it a 'hidden crisis', a UN report has found that armed conflicts are robbing 28 million children of their right to education while subjecting ... Read more...
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Child mortality rate drops by a third since 1990: Unicef
September 17th, 2010 - 7:42 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 17 (IANS) More and more children are now living to see their fifth birthday as the child mortality rates have dropped by a third since 1990, the latest under-five ... Read more...
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Pakistani cousin marriages in UK behind genetic disability baby birth boom
August 24th, 2010 - 6:03 pm ICT by ANI
London, Aug 24 (ANI): A study has found that more than 700 children are born with genetic diseases every year in the UK due to the prevalent cousin marriage system.The research showed ... Read more...
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Chandigarh hit and run: Girl arrested, bailed out (Second Lead)
August 18th, 2010 - 10:41 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, Aug 18 (IANS) A teenaged girl, accused of causing a fatal accident in which a youth and a child were killed, was bailed out just two hours after she surrendered before ... Read more...
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Chandigarh hit and run: 19-year-old girl arrested (Lead)
August 18th, 2010 - 7:59 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, Aug 18 (IANS) A teenaged girl, one of the two accused of causing a fatal accident in which a youth and a child were killed, surrendered before police here Wednesday evening. ... Read more...
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Katy Perry Buys Russell Brand Ticket to Outer Space
August 2nd, 2010 - 11:13 pm ICT by Angela Kaye Mason
Aug 02 (THAINDIAN NEWS) According to reports from ‘E!Online’, Katy Perry has bought her fiance a thirty-fifth birthday present that is really out of this world. She purchased a Virgin ... Read more...
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115 mn widows live in poverty: Loomba Foundation study
June 30th, 2010 - 9:16 pm ICT by IANS
By Venkata Vemuri
London, June 30 (IANS) At least 245 million women around the world have been widowed with India alone accounting for 42.4 million. And more than 115 million widows live in ... Read more...
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The 10 most viewed YouTube videos
May 19th, 2010 - 2:33 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, May 19 (ANI): Video sharing website YouTube has released the list of its 10 most viewed videos.The site marked its fifth birthday by announcing that viewers now watch more than ... Read more...
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YouTube, age 5, is just getting started
May 18th, 2010 - 3:01 pm ICT by IANS
By Andy Goldberg
San Francisco, May 18 (DPA) It's spawned scandals, spoofs and sensations and is probably the biggest time waster on the planet.But as video-sharing internet site YouTube celebrated its ... Read more...
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Growing breast feed has saved 1.7mn Assam kids
March 22nd, 2010 - 9:29 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 22 (IANS) Assam is doing much better than the rest of India in exclusive breast feeding to infants and has saved 1.7 million kids from slipping into under-nourishment, ... Read more...
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Age two is obesity tipping point
February 12th, 2010 - 3:20 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Feb 12 (IANS) The tipping point in obesity often occurs before two years of age, and sometimes as early as three months, when the child is learning how much and what ... Read more...
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Born again. 39-year-old to celebrate ‘fifth’ birthday Dec 26 (Five years after tsunami)
December 24th, 2009 - 6:00 pm ICT by IANS
By Venkatachari Jagannathan
Chennai, Dec 24 (IANS) Thirty-nine year old Raghupathy Vaidyanathan, an executive in a city-based software company, will celebrate his "fifth" birthday along with his wife and two children Dec ... Read more...
Posted in Environment |
Keep children out of political activities: Sheikh Hasina
October 6th, 2009 - 1:59 pm ICT by IANS
Dhaka, Oct 6 (IANS) Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has vowed to take measures to keep children out of political activities.
Deploying children for political rallies, particularly during agitations and elections, is ... Read more...
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Children, adolescents ‘most vulnerable to malaria’
October 1st, 2009 - 1:42 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Oct 1 (ANI): Children as young as five and teenagers are at an increased risk of developing life-threatening malaria, says a new study.Lead researcher Abdisalan M Noor, from the Kenyan Medical ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Jack Lalanne’s 95th Birthday
September 24th, 2009 - 7:39 pm ICT by GD
By Madhuri Dey
San Francisco, Sep 24 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Jack LaLanne is still fit and will be celebrating his ninety-fifth birthday. Jack LaLanne is famous as a fitness freak who has performed all ... Read more...
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Unseen pics reveal MJ’s life with kids
July 27th, 2009 - 12:05 pm ICT by ANI
London, July 27 (ANI): Some never-seen-before family pictures of Michael Jackson with his kids have been revealed, giving a peek into the hidden world of the Late King of Pop's relationship ... Read more...
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No poll issue this: child health a casualty in Madhya Pradesh
May 4th, 2009 - 12:58 pm ICT by IANS
By Sanjay Sharma
Bhopal, May 4 (IANS) It was not even an election issue in a state that ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani touts as a model of governance. ... Read more...
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Beckham reveals what he is doing to save people from malaria
April 21st, 2009 - 1:02 pm ICT by ANI
London, Apr.21 (ANI): England winger David Beckham has said that he is horrified to learn that close to 90,000 children are suffering from malaria in Africa, and believes that every one ... Read more...
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Turn words into action, says NGO to G20 leaders
April 3rd, 2009 - 4:15 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 3 (IANS) Although the G20 summit is seen as a "ray of hope" in the global economic gloom, international charity Save the Children Friday said that unless the ... Read more...
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Social networking site Facebook turns 5
February 5th, 2009 - 10:14 am ICT by Amrit Rashmisrisethi
On Wednesday, Facebook celebrated its fifth birthday with 150 million guests but no clear path to profitability.The co-founder ,Chief executive executive Mark Zuckerberg also his two Harvard University roommates five years ago, ... Read more...
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Child mortality rates still high in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia
September 12th, 2008 - 4:57 pm ICT by ANI
London, Sept 12 (ANI): Child mortality rates are falling significantly in many regions, but remains high in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia, according to UNICEF.Its reports shows that more than ... Read more...
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Obesity prevention efforts should begin as early as age two: Experts
August 2nd, 2008 - 12:41 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Aug 2 (ANI): With obesity rates reaching new highs worldwide, a group of researchers has suggested that in order to fight the dangerous condition, prevention efforts should begin as early ... Read more...
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Childhood obesity begins at two
August 2nd, 2008 - 12:20 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Aug 2 (IANS) Obesity prevention efforts should begin as early as the age of two, when children reach a tipping point that could predispose them to obesity later in life, a ... Read more...
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‘India worse than Pakistan, Bangladesh on nourishment’
July 2nd, 2008 - 11:18 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 2 (IANS) India is worse than Bangladesh and Pakistan when it comes to nourishment and is showing little improvement in the area despite big money being spent on it, ... Read more...
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Young lawmakers campaign to root out malnutrition
May 13th, 2008 - 1:47 pm ICT by admin
Muzaffarpur (Bihar), May 13 (ANI): Cutting across party lines, a group of young lawmakers are vociferously campaigning to root out the menace of malnutrition in the country.
Working under the banner of ... Read more...
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Young MPs join hands against malnutrition
May 4th, 2008 - 10:09 am ICT by admin
By Prashant K. Nanda
New Delhi, May 4 (IANS) They are young, educated and mean business. Several Indian MPs, cutting across party lines, have joined hands in rare political unanimity to raise awareness ... Read more...
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Pak to receive 41 million dollars from UK for healthcare
April 7th, 2008 - 10:15 am ICT by admin
Islamabad, Apr.7 (ANI): The Department for International Development (DFID) in Britain will mark World Health Day on Monday by giving the Pakistan Government 41 million dollars for its healthcare needs.
DFID officials ... Read more...
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India worst in cutting child mortality rates despite fast economic growth
February 19th, 2008 - 2:59 pm ICT by admin
London, Feb 19 (ANI): India might be the fastest growing economy in South Asia, but it is having trouble in duly translating the economic growth into improvements in child mortality, says a ... Read more...
Posted in South Asia |
Don’t turn a blind eye to child mortality in developing nations: Becks
January 23rd, 2008 - 2:47 pm ICT by admin
London, Jan.23 (ANI): Former England football ace David Beckham has appealed to the world not to turn a blind eye to "shocking" child mortality rates in developing nations.
Issuing the appeal after returning ... Read more...
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