JAIPUR: Rajasthan is utilizing only 2% grant allocated for elementary education on children's entitlements and quality of education which is among the minimum in the country, though it is spending

GULBARGA: The neonatal intensive care unit bay at the Gulbarga district hospital has a long line of new mothers.

Researchers have developed a new oral diarrhoea vaccine which in a clinical phase I-study has shown promising results to combat the disease that kills 300,000 children per year in the developing wo

Fatehabad/Sirsa, May 23

The lives of over 150,000 children in the country could be saved by a $5-million-programme launched in India by UNICEF-Canada and Teck under the Zinc Alliance for Child Health(ZACH).

At least 133 schoolchildren have taken ill in Sirsa and Fatehabad districts of Haryana after consuming iron and folic acid tablets.

ALLAHABAD: When it comes to scripting success stories in terms of vaccinating children, Allahabad district tops the chart among all other 23 districts of the state with a record of administering ov

For the fourth consecutive day today, schoolchildren were rushed to hospitals with complaints of nausea and vomiting after they were given iron and folic acid (IFA) tablets supplied by the Health D

The census shows that Kerala has a literacy rate of 94 per cent. The child population in Kerala has shown a declining trend.