Tag: Teenager

The horrific incident occurred at Durai Shib Bari village under Kamalpur police station in eastern Tripura's Dhalai district.

Bhubaneswar: Police today fished out the bodies of two  teenagers who earlier got drowned in the Mahanadi river near Rahama in Jagatsinghpur district on Thursday. The deceased have been identified as Souri Rout (20) and his friend Siddhu Palai. Both of them had went missing after they were swept in the strong current of the […]

New York: If your teenager or young adult child is obese, he or she can be at four-times the risk of developing pancreatic cancer later in life, new research warns. Researchers from the Tel Aviv University analysed 1,087,358 Jewish men and 707,212 women between 16 to 19 years for the study published in the journal […]

New York: Most parents believe that an excessive late night use of gadgets has significantly hampered the sleep patterns of their teenaged children, leading to poor academic performance, researchers warn. According to them, 56 per cent of parents fall in this category. In the study, published by C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s […]

San Francisco: Google has rewarded a Uruguayan teenager a “bug bounty” of more than $36,000 for disclosing a severe security flaw. Ezequiel Pereira’s sporadic poking around has finally paid off in a big way: Google just awarded the Uruguayan teenager $36,337 for finding a vulnerability that would have allowed him to make changes to internal […]

Toronto: It’s not only junk food, but a combination of unhealthy behaviours like sedentary lifestyle in teenagers that increases the risk of being overweight in adulthood, say researchers emphasising the need to focus on more than eating habits to combat the obesity epidemic. The study found that the calorie intake among adolescents has not changed, […]

Hyderabad: A teenager from Odisha was arrested by the Hyberabad police today on the charge of hacking a toll-free number of a company and causing it a loss of Rs 60 lakh. Himalaya Mohanty (19), a resident of Balasore district of Odisha who studies at an ITI, allegedly learnt computer hacking on a website and […]

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 […]

Patna: In a horror of an incident a teenager in Bihar’s Bhagalpur district was bathed with acid after she resisted an attempt to gang rape by a group of four youths, police said on Saturday. The 16-year-old Class 11 student is battling for her life in a hospital. The police have arrested two suspects in […]