The King and the Queen of Belgium, King Philippe and Queen Mathilde, who are on a week-long visit to India, on Friday played cricket with Mumbai children and cricketer Virender Sehwag to advocate for children's right to play and learn.
Walk without your shoes for a week and feel how the world's less fortunate children live. That is the appeal UNICEF Ambassador Bilaal Rajan, 12, issued. To celebrate National Volunteer Week, Bilaal spearheaded an initiative in Toronto where he lived' life without shoes for the entire week' to empathise with children in poorer countries who can't afford footwear.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown launched a 3.6m pound initiative to develop Indian athletes for the Olympics.
Deane De Menezes hopes to reduce the awkwardness and stigma around menstruation.
An estimated 80,000 pregnant women and new mothers die each year in India from preventable causes, including haemorrhage, eclampsia, sepsis and anaemia, making it an average of 301 deaths for every 100,000 live births annually, a new UN study has said.
The World Health Organization has given five more months to the Drugs Controller General of India to upgrade its performance to international standards. The extension of the current deadline of October-end came after a visiting WHO team found the modernisation programmes of the Indian drug regulator on track.
Loud applause and cheers rang out as the first jabs were administered to frontline workers at hospitals and healthcare centres across the country on Saturday at the start of the gargantuan COVID-19 vaccination exercise, hailed as a 'momentous' occasion in India's fight against the pandemic.
Cricketer bats for girls rights on International Day of the Girl Child
Consulting Conclave at Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi
Nandana Sen reveals all for Maxim magazine.
Panacea Biotec Ltd said on Wednesday it has received pre-qualification accreditation from the World Health Organisation for the supply of recombinant Hepatitis B vaccine to UN agencies.
Cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar has thrown his weight behind the ICC Women's World Cup 2017, saying one who doesn't watch the women's game is not a true cricket fan.
From the boys who used to hand out tickets to people on the streets and invite them to their concerts free of charge to the men selling out Wembley Stadium in less than a day, having about 20 songs on Billboards #1, BTS have come a long way, says Maya Dominic, a fan of the Korean pop band.
'It is a sad day when social activists, environmental campaigners, anti-corruption workers are singled out as anti-nationals and then criminalised.'
Statistics reveal that in 1979 only 9 per cent of the children were affected with asthma, but the figure rose to almost 30 per cent in 2007.
News of all that transpired on and off the cricket field
Attempting an image makeover from being calorie-rich to health-conscious, PepsiCo India is working towards launching a nutritious beverage within three years.
A section of teachers and student outfits have come out against the handbook on sex education prepared for children studying in ninth and eleventh standards, alleging the content it discussed bordered on pornography.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
India alone accounts for more than one-fifth of deaths worldwide of children under the age of five, according to a new UN report released today, which said nearly 6.6 million kids died globally, last year, before reaching their fifth birthday.
The Queen of Jordan, considered one of the world's modern royals, is in India.
Nepal has been hit by heavy rainfall since Thursday. More than 25 districts and 10,385 households have been affected.
India has made substantial progress in reduction of child mortality, but still accounts for almost 50 per cent of the world's malnutrition and neonatal deaths, a new UNICEF report stated.
The Bihar government has launched a massive programme to bring over 23 lakh out-of-school children to educational institutions in the state.
A dipstick survey covering 30 villages in Rajasthan threw up some worrisome numbers. About 250 children missed their regular vaccination schedule in March alone. These numbers are alarming, since India has around 600,000 villages according to the 2011 census. Sohini Das reports.
Teamwork, critical thinking, networking, collaboration and adaptability are among a few soft skills that will enable our students to tackle challenges in life as well as at their workplaces, says Rustom Kerawalla.
Yuvraj Singh has no qualms in conceding that he has been 'failing' but the out-of-favour Indian cricketer says he won't give up on his career at least till 2019.
Oscar-winning producer Lord David Puttnam in an exclusive interview with Raja Sen.
The eight-member team has been selected from 63 teams in the US to represent the country. One J8 team from each of the eight countries was chosen through an international process developed by Morgan Stanley and UNICEF.
With more than 300 sexual assault cases filed in Chennai under POCSO Act in the last three years, the Tamil Nadu government has decided to maintain a register of child sexual offenders. A Ganesh Nadar reports.
Roger Federer swapped his tennis racquet for a cricket bat to the delight of scores of tsunami survivors.
World number one Roger Federer visited the Tsunami survivors in Tamil Nadu as Unicef ambassador.
Birth histories and census data reveal an unusually high proportion of male births and male children under five in Asia.
The haunting images of four-year-old Omran, sitting in an ambulance after the attack, have reverberated around the world, becoming a symbol for the suffering of children in Syria.
Jyotirmayee, who was chosen team leader of the UNICEF-sponsored 'Meena--the girl child' project, was the lone Indian to receive this year's International Youth Action Net Award instituted by International Youth Foundation, USA.
Forty per cent of population will have no access to drinking water by 2030 and 21 cities, including New Delhi, Bengaluru and Hyderabad, will run out of groundwater by 2020.
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