London: Just days after release of her first adult novel, famed author JK Rowling has said her next published book will be for children. "I think probably the next thing I write, or the next thing I publish, will be for children," said Rowling, while talking to an audience at the Cheltenham Literature Festival in Gloucestershire, England. She told fans that she had a "number of ideas on my laptop",...
02:17 AM, Oct 08, 2012
Mumbai: Team Yahoo, consisting contestants and choreographers of 'Dance India Dance (DID) L'il Masters Season 2' walked away with the winner's trophy in the grand finale of 'DID Dance Ke Superkids' Sunday night. The five-week series had two teams, consisting of seven kids each from 'DID L'il Masters Season 1' and 'DID L'il Masters Season 2'. It was judged by Geeta Kapur, Marzi Pestonji and Farah Khan with actor Mithun...
12:11 PM, Sep 24, 2012
New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh Minister Shivpal Yadav on Saturday had a miraculous escape when a small plane carrying him skidded off the runway after landing at the IGI airport in Delhi. The incident took place at around 12 noon when the plane skidded off the runway after landing and the nose-wheel got stuck in mud, airport sources said. The plane with six people on board, including Yadav and two pilots,...
02:59 PM, Sep 22, 2012
Hyderabad: Though the drive against drunken driving had been initiated almost 10 months ago by the city traffic police, violation of the rule is still a cause of concern. Thousands of cases have been registered so far, yet the police are having a tough time dealing with those who violate the rule. The police find it surprising as a majority of those who violate the drunken driving rule are either...
01:31 PM, Sep 21, 2012
London: Scientists have developed a new app which will help parents decipher the modern-day text message lingo their kid uses. TextGenie, a new app created by a UK-based software solutions company, DCML deciphers text language and slang from incoming SMS messages and translates them into plain English for confused parents, The Telegraph reported. Research by DCML claimed that 84 per cent of parents with teenagers admit to receiving text messages...
03:40 AM, Aug 27, 2012
Bangalore: The Bangalore Traffic Police has booked a whopping 1,428 cases against errant school cab operators in the past two months. The cases were booked because the cab drivers were ferrying more than the allowed number of children. This drive is the result of a notification issued by the Transport Department on June 16 which framed rules for the carrying of school children in cabs. Some of these rules included...
02:21 PM, Aug 13, 2012
Hyderabad: Issidore Philip is a messiah for the destitute children across Andhra Pradesh. For 25 years, this educationist and his team at 'Divya Disha' have been rehabilitating the children of a lesser God from railway stations, bus-stands and roadside to a better life. "Everyone wants a kid, a drug peddler wants a child, our challenge is to constantly reach to the kid first, else we lose him for good," Philip...
10:34 AM, Aug 03, 2012
Mangalore: I would think twice about enrolling my children in some of the colleges in Mangalore, Commissioner of Police and father of two children Seemant Kumar Singh said on Monday. Making this admission two days after vigilantes attacked young revellers at a birthday party, the Commissioner highlighted what he described as petty politicking and a heavily polarised environment. This is conducive for lumpen elements to repeatedly attack youth and besmirch...
12:26 PM, Jul 31, 2012
Hyderabad: When 10-year-old Mohd. Umar first inhaled a whitener fluid off a piece of paper in the company of his friends, little did he know what he was getting into. Same is the case with nine-year-old Sadiq and 20-year-old Syed Fasi. The trio are among hundreds of such boys addicted to whiteners in the Old City. Whitener is a white fluid containing organic solvents, used to erase errors in handwritten...
01:27 PM, Jul 25, 2012
London: Potty training your kid before the age of three may be harmful for them. Parents, who pressure their children to potty train before the age of three may be hurting them, according to a paediatric urologist. Dr Steve Hodges, a professor at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, said that training too early can lead to more toilet accidents because the bladder may not be strong enough. It can...
03:41 PM, Jul 20, 2012
Washington: Girls as young as six years are already beginning to think of themselves as sex objects, a new study of elementary school-age children in the US has found. It has been found in the past that women and teens think of themselves in sexually objectified terms, but the new study published in the journal 'Sex Roles' is the first to identify self-sexualisation in young girls. In the study, psychologists...
03:55 PM, Jul 17, 2012
Chennai: 12-year-old Pravin (name changed), son of an Air Force officer who lived in Anna Nagar, was spotted by Railway Police standing alone in a phone booth at Central Railway Station, late one evening. The boy was dressed in school uniform and was informing his parents over phone that two persons had kidnapped him from his school. The police picked up the boy and handed him over to his parents....
01:01 PM, Jul 17, 2012
Los Angeles: Pop star Katy Perry was not ready to have kids and this is being cited as the reason of her split from husband Russel Brand. The 27-year-old talks about her marriage to Brand in her new movie Katy Perry: Part of Me. In between snippets of concert performances, the superstar drops hint that differences between her and Brand started with disagreements over starting a family, reported Us magazine....
11:51 AM, Jul 09, 2012
Sweet Dreams: Your baby can catch a quick nap in this cosy Moses Basket from Mother Care which rests on a pine rocking stand. Price: Rs 4,999 (basket); Rs 2,199 (stand). mothercare.com The Writing On The Wall: Jazz up your childs space with wallpaper. Featured here is one with a bird-motif, part of the What a Hoot Collection from Harlequin available at Floor & Furnishings stores. harlequin.uk.com/what-a-hoot-fabric.asp Fantasy Time: Fly...
04:44 PM, Jun 21, 2012
New York: Though Facebook bans children under 13, millions of them have profiles on the site by lying about their age. The company is now testing ways to allow those kids to participate without needing to lie. This would likely be under parental supervision, such as by connecting children's accounts to their parents' accounts. Like many other online services, Facebook prohibits kids under 13 because federal law requires companies to...
08:43 AM, Jun 05, 2012
New Delhi: Over 5,000 children, including newborns, died in the past three years while undergoing treatment at the government-run multi-speciality Safdarjung Hospital, an RTI reply has revealed. While 2,545 children died within 48 hours of admission, of which 914 were neonates (newborn), 1,833 died after that. In reply to an RTI query by Mumbai resident Ajay Marathe, the hospital revealed that in the past three years, starting from 2009, a...
11:49 AM, Jun 03, 2012
Kolkata: Amidst the renewed fight over the custody of two children of an Indian NRI couple in Norway even after their return to India, the country's embassy in Delhi has said they consider the issue closed. In reply to a e-mail by city-based NGO India's Smile, counsellor of the Royal Norwegian embassy in Delhi Laila Tronsdal Moen said, "The Royal Norwegian Embassy in Delhi considers the issue as closed from...
12:50 AM, May 29, 2012
The mother of the Norway NRI children, Sagarika Bhattacharya, claimed that her in-laws abused her. ...
01:42 PM, May 26, 2012
Kolkata: There seems to be a new twist in the custody row of the two Norway children. This time it's a domestic battle and not a diplomatic one. Sagarika Bhattacharya, the mother of the two children, Abhigyan and Aishwarya, has claimed that she was beaten by her husband Anurup Bhattacharya, thrown out of their house and tortured in Norway. Sagarika claims that she has not been allowed to meet the...
09:19 AM, May 26, 2012
