NEW DELHI: AS the government works to improve quality of education and learning outcomes at school, it can draw some comfort from the dwindling number of out-of-school children. A Educational Consultants of India/HRD ministry-sponsored survey…

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's rapid economic growth has failed to cut alarmingly high malnutrition rates, leaving it "two generations" behind China, a leading expert said on Wednesday.  India is home to one-third of the…

Observer investigation uncovers link between dramatic rise in birth defects in Punjab and pollution from coal-fired power stations. Their heads are too large or too small, their limbs too short or too bent. For some,…

New Delhi - Indian police Saturday arrested a television actress in Mumbai for allegedly beating and injuring her 10-year-old maid, news reports said. Urvashi Dhanorkar was accused of brutally assaulting Rameshwari, locking up the child…

PUNE: On the occasion of the Anti-Child Labour Day,' which is observed in India on April 30, a section of the non-government organisations here demanded revoking of a new government resolution (GR), which confined the…

CHENNAI: The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) will soon write to Collectors across the country, instructing them to hold meetings with all school heads and convey that no form of corporal punishment…

Boston, MA—Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have found a link between a mother's height and the health of her children in a study using national data from India.  according to UNICEF,…