New Delhi: A recent study conducted by doctors at AIIMS and Maulana Azad Medical College has shown a startling increase in the number of celiac cases in the country. The study reveals that undiagnosed celiac or allergy to wheat may be a major cause of malnutrition in the country. Three-year-old Gudiya has body of a one year old, all because of a condition that is increasingly prevalent across India. Gudiya's...
08:48 AM, May 28, 2012
New Delhi: Taking a serious view of child marriages in the country, the UPA government has decided to hold a national consultation on the issue with the states. A core group has been constituted by the women and child development ministry to organise the first national consultation this year to prevent child marriages, a ministry official said. "National consultation will be held soon. A core group has already been constituted...
06:27 PM, Apr 29, 2012
A UNICEF report on adolescents (between 10 and 19 years of age) titled 'Progress for Children' has revealed that nearly one out of every three girls in countries like India and Pakistan are likely to be married. South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa has the highest percentage of adolescent married girls. Secondary school enrolment among adolescents is between 50 and 60 per cent in India. India figures in the lowest rung...
07:26 PM, Apr 25, 2012
Kolkata: Amid regular reports of crib deaths in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday claimed there has been a fall in the number of infant deaths in the state. "The reported infant deaths in the state in 2010 was 30,793 which came down drastically to just 18,671 in 2011. The infant mortality rate has come down by 1 percent to 31 percent in the year," Banerjee said while...
08:32 PM, Apr 20, 2012
Mumbai: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who is Unicef's brand ambassador against polio, says he will be honoured for his contribution to the cause. "And the organisation that acknowledges social work for a cause, will honour yours truly for the work done as UNICEF ambassador for the fight against polio, which as you know has had some rather encouraging achievements," Amitabh wrote on his blog bigb.bigadda.com. In February, the World Health Organisation...
04:38 PM, Apr 06, 2012
Mumbai: Major Gopal Mitra (41) may desire to borrow vision for few moments to salute the Indian tricolour flying high at the UNICEF headquarters in New York on his first day of a new job tomorrow. A former Indian Army officer, Mitra is the first disabled person from India to be appointed at the headquarters of a major UN agency. Mitra is joining the UNICEF as programme specialist, and his...
04:47 PM, Mar 26, 2012
Male: The first democratically elected president of the Maldives resigned on Tuesday and was replaced by his vice president after the police and army clashed in the streets of the island nation amidst protests over the arrest of a top judge. Mohammed Waheed Hassan, who previously worked as a top UNICEF official, was sworn in as the new Maldivian president in the afternoon. Soon after, the judge was released. In...
09:45 PM, Feb 07, 2012
New Delhi: India has marked a significant milestone, with no new polio cases reported for one year. It's a result of a massive health programme,the routine pulse polio immunisation program. In the last few years India has mobilized 24 lakh volunteers and 1.5 lakh front line workers in an effort that's cost a 1000 crore rupees every year. "It's a big milestone - considering that there was a time when...
06:06 AM, Jan 13, 2012
UNICEF wants Aamir Khan to spread awareness about the malnutrition and children. ...
12:11 AM, Dec 01, 2011
New Delhi: Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan was today appointed the national brand ambassador of UNICEF to promote child nutrition and the actor said he takes his new job as a responsibility and not as a burden. Aamir is the third Bollywood celebrity after Amitabh Bachchan and Priyanka Chopra to represent United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund in India. The 46-year-old actor, who will be working towards solving the problem of...
07:34 PM, Nov 30, 2011
Vaishali: A group of children in Bihar have found a unique way to highlight their everyday problems. They have turned reporters to create awareness about child marriage, child labour and other issues. All of 12, Kajal's awareness about issues is exemplary. The child crusader, part of the child reporter brigade in Bihar's Vaishali district, has been taking on the cause of child labour, child marriage, environment protection and civic consciousness...
08:58 AM, Nov 30, 2011
New Delhi: After Amitabh Bachchan and Priyanka Chopra, superstar Aamir Khan is the latest celebrity face of UNICEF in India. The 46-year-old actor will be appointed the national ambassador of United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) on November 30. The actor-producer, known for his films like 'Taare Zammen Par', 'Ghajini', '3 Idiots' and 'Dhobi Ghat', will support Unicef's work in promoting child rights and nutrition of children under two...
06:45 PM, Nov 24, 2011
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05:25 PM, Oct 27, 2011
New Delhi: India's seen only one case of polio in the past year - in West Bengal about seven months ago. Not a single case of polio was registered in more than a year in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, the traditional trouble-spots. Anuradha JS, MoH said, "When polio program started there were estimated 50,000 cases or so in the whole country. Say about 10 years ago there were about 1500...
09:59 AM, Sep 14, 2011
Abuja: A large explosion struck the United Nations' main office in Nigeria's capital on Friday, flattening one wing of the building. A UN official in Geneva called it a bomb attack. "I saw scattered bodies," said Michael Ofilaje, a UNICEF worker at the building. "Many people are dead." He said it felt like "the blast came from the basement and shook the building." The building houses about 400 employees of...
04:25 PM, Aug 26, 2011
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