Tag: Children

London: Removing displays of tobacco products from shops may have reduced the proportion of children buying cigarettes by 17 per cent, claimed a new research. The findings, based on the analysis of the impact of the 2015 tobacco display ban in England, revealed that the percentage of children who smoked regularly fell to 40 per […]

United Nations: Over 300 million children globally between the age of five and 17 years of age were not in school, the Unicef said in a news report. More than one-third of them, or about 104 million, are in countries affected by conflict or disaster, the report titled “A future stolen: young and out-of-school” revealed […]

Paris: Fashion designer Victoria Beckham told her children her marriage is solid amid false rumours of her husband David cheating. She revealed all to Vogue magazine as the couple holidayed in the South of France. The couple sat down with seven-year-old daughter Harper, and her three teenage brothers to reassure them their marriage was solid […]

London: The growth of children in the first three years of their life affects the development of their lungs and the risk of asthma at 10 years of age, says a study. According to recent studies, excessive weight gain in the first years of life can be associated with lower lung function and a higher […]

New York: Parents, please take note. The frequency of brain tumours has been underestimated in children with the common genetic syndrome — neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), a new study has found. According to the researchers, this disorder is characterised by birthmarks on the skin and benign nerve tumours that develop in or on the skin. […]

Seoul: Parents, please take note. A new study has found that smoking and depression in parents may increase the risk of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in their children. According to the researchers, the results illuminate the need to increase awareness of parental factors that have the potential to contribute to ADHD in children. The study, published […]

Jerusalem: Be cautious while planning fertility treatment as it may increase the risk of autism in your child, a new study has found. The researchers found that the odds of having a child on the autistic spectrum for those who underwent fertility treatments were 1.5 times higher than those who opted out of it, in […]

  New Delhi: Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) Chairperson Swati Maliwal on Sunday ended her nine-day fast after President Ram Nath Kovind approved an ordinance to provide death penalty to those convicted of raping girls below 12 years. Maliwal, 33, went on an indefinite hunger strike at Rajghat and refused to break it despite failing […]

Los Angeles: Former adult film star Sunny Leone, who adopted girl child Nisha in 2017, has surprised everyone by extending her brood with two more children — sons Noah and Asher. Sunny, who is currently here, took to Twitter and posted a photograph of herself along with husband Daniel Weber and their three children. Sunny captioned […]

Kendrapara: Bereft of bridge connectivity, students of a far-flung village in Kendrapara district are forced to wade through waist-deep water in a crocodile-infested creek to reach their school everyday. It’s a dangerous journey for the children of Burudia village under Rajkanika tehsil as threat of crocodile pouncing upon them is quite imminent. The village does […]

  Peshawar: A 5.5-magnitude earthquake today jolted northwest Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, injuring at least nine children and causing panic among the residents, media reports said. The epicenter of the earthquake was Northwestern city of Bannu located at a depth of 12 kilometre. The temblor was felt in the Swat Valley and Peshawar, the capital […]

  New Delhi: The Union Cabinet today approved an ordinance to allow courts to award death penalty to those convicted of raping children up to 12 years of age. Official sources said that the criminal law amendment ordinance seeks to amend the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the Evidence Act, the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) […]

Jajpur: The Odisha Food Commission chairman today lauded the Jajpur district administration for laying a motorable road to Nagada village, where about 21 children had died last year allegedly due to malnutrition. The children of the tribal-dominated village had died last year in the absence of medical facilities. The incident had hogged the headlines causing […]

Cuttack: Scouting different places within the state for last 11 days, joint teams of the Odisha Women and Child Development department and police have rescued at least 626 children, the police said today. These children were away from their families either working as child labourers or begging at railway stations or bus stands. This was […]

Gurgaon: Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar on yesterday said the state government has started the process to set up a “State Nutrition Commission” and formulate a “State Nutrition Policy” to address malnutrition among children. The chief minister was speaking at an event organised for the ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao” programme here. He said the […]