Three members of the same family survived the horrific train accident in Odisha's Balasore and returned to their home in West Bengal.
Poonawalla wished the country and Prime Minister Narendra Modi success for the vaccination programme.
"There has been a 0.05 percentage points decline in the share of allocation for child budget to the Union Budget from 2.35 per cent (2022-23 BE) to 2.30 per cent (2023-24 BE).
China on Friday said about 90 million couples will qualify to have a second child after it scrapped its controversial decades-old one-child policy, raising the number of people in the world's most populous nation to 1.45 billion by 2030.
'Rhetoric and chest-thumping are running high on India's recent growth record.'
'But will the giant waves developing elsewhere allow us to sail smoothly into fair winds?' asks Debashis Basu.
Breastfeeding lowers chances of being a victim to cancer and circulatory diseases. Among children, it prevents diarrhoea and pneumonia.
A new study from the Child Development Laboratory at the University of Maryland shows that shyness in kids could relate to the manner in which a stress-related gene in children interacts with being raised by stressed-out parents.
Dharmesh A Patel of Pasadena, California, will be booked into San Mateo County Jail after he is released from a hospital, the highway patrol said in a statement.
Fadnavis said the 'minute details' will be gone into before an inquiry is ordered.
Edtech firm Byju's has rolled out a 4-tier tech-driven internal sales process replacing its existing direct sales process to check mis-selling, the company said on Monday. The development comes against the backdrop of summons issued to the company by child rights body National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) over allegations that the edtech firm is indulging in malpractices to lure parents and children to buy their courses. Under the new sales model, interested customers having minimum monthly income of Rs 25,000 will be eligible to buy courses from Byju's and will need to give consent for placing the order and before closing of the sales.
The child was apparently carrying a packet containing some food item when the dogs pounced on him, a Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) official said.
Kanti Singh is alleged to have blessed the couple -- Pinki Kumari (14) and Ashok Kumar Giri (15) -- after their marriage was solemnised on December 12.
A sixth world title added to her cabinet, ace Indian boxer MC Mary Kom, on Wednesday, said she is now aiming for a gold in the Olympics.
Most south Asian nations will fall short on the Millennium Development Goals, a set of eight globally agreed development goals due to be achieved by 2015, a study by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund said.The report has warned that developing countries stand to suffer the most from climate change and the degradation of natural resources.
The BJP had attacked him and the AAP after a video went viral showing him attending the event on October 5 where hundreds took a pledge to convert to Buddhism and not consider Hindu deities as gods.
China's population in 2022 -- 1.4118 billion -- fell by 850,000 from 2021, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said.
The Group of Ministers will examine the existing legal and institutional frameworks for dealing with matters of sexual harassment of women at workplace and recommend action required for effective implementation of the existing provisions, as well as for strengthening the existing legal and institutional frameworks for addressing issues related to sexual harassment at workplace, the statement said.
The case was being investigated by the state Criminal Investigation Department (CID) earlier.
Child labour is an issue in India which must be tackled soon.
Birthday greetings poured in for him from all quarters, with his supporters and Bharatiya Janata Party workers offering prayers for him and organising events to mark the occasion.
The single judge bench of Justice S Rachaiah in its judgement recently said, "Once PW.1 (complainant woman) is considered as second wife of the petitioner, obviously, the complaint filed against the petitioner for the offence under Section 498-A of IPC ought not to have been entertained."
Reacting sharply to the Global Hunger Report 2021, the Women and Child Development Ministry said it is 'shocking' to find that it has lowered the rank of India on the basis of FAO estimate on proportion of undernourished population which is found to be 'devoid of ground reality and facts, and suffers from serious methodological issues'.
Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, Ram, Laxmi, stories from the Hindu epics are seen in carvings, paintings and murals, as well as recognisable figures from mythology, like Garuda, Sheshnag, Nandi and Apsaras, notes Deepa Gahlot, savouring the beauty of Cambodia.
FDCI x Lakme Fashion Week is back with a promising line up of models.
Kane was confirmed as a Bayern Munich player on Saturday after weeks of wrangling between the clubs.
If gender disparities are eroded with more women being better-educated, that pool also becomes smaller.
Hockey India President Dilip Tirkey on Thursday confirmed the appointment of Indian former field hockey player Sardar Singh and Rani Rampal as the chief coach
It's normal to want to protect children from the pain of making mistakes, but children need to make mistakes to grow, become resilient.
More than 70 per cent of Indian youth aged between 15 and 29 can't!
Share a warm bond with your sibling? Then you are more likely to end up with the same level of education.
What's more shocking is that the 15-year-long study by international researchers has found that exposure to mobile handsets can also affect the heart rate of an unborn child to some extent. The study concluded that the use of mobile phones by pregnant women -- even as little as two or three times a day -- was enough to up the risk of hyperactivity and behavioural problems in kids.
The Centre's programmes of maternity benefit and Child Protection Services also got a major boost in the Budget.
Women politicians bring to politics and policy a sensitivity that most of their male counterparts, at least until a generation back, lacked.
An official statement said the commission has used its helpline to undertake various well-being surveys and identification of children who have lost their parents due to COVID-19 using data provided by the Delhi government's health department.
An increasing number of overweight and under-exercised children are staring at serious heart problems if parents don't step in
If your child is spending too much time online, an Internet de-addiction clinic can help him or her use technology in a healthy manner, reports Indulekha Aravind.
'The minute I tell couples to use condoms or suggest permanent birth control, they ignore it or just change the topic.'
Karanjit Singh signs one-year contract extension with Kerala Blasters FC
Targeting the Congress, the PM said those who ruled Madhya Pradesh for a long time did nothing else other than corruption and crime.
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