India’s Vocational Education 5% Against 95% Of Sk, 80% Japan & 70% Germany
Vocational education percentage in India is at meager 5% of its total employed workforce of 459.10 million as against 95% of South Korea, 80% of Japan and 70% of Germany, which makes a strong case for...
View ArticleA quarter of all neo-natal deaths in the world occurred in India says UNICEF...
New Delhi: Exactly a year ago, the chopped remains of some children of daily wage earners and migrants were recovered from a drain in Nithari, a village on the outskirts of the Indian capital. For a...
View ArticleHigh Growth, Low Development: India in Year 2007
By M H Ahsan HYDERABAD: Even nations that are far below us in the Human Development Index rankings – and which have nothing like our growth numbers – have done much better than us on many counts. The...
View ArticleIndia’s Future May Depend on Eggs and Condoms: Andy Mukherjee
Jan. 8 (Bloomberg) — Children younger than 6 years of age account for a sixth of India’s population, and yet just 1 percent of the federal government’s budget is spent on them. In a country where a...
View ArticleEvery three seconds, one child dies in India: UNICEF
NEW DELHI: In India, over 2.1 million children die annually before reaching their fifth birthday, 50% of them not surviving even 28 days. Globally, the number stands at 9.7 million annually. The...
View ArticleChild mortality: India’s record worse than Bangladesh
NEW DELHI: With two million children under the age of five dying every year, India has a dismal record in child mortality. Now, a new study conducted by Save the Children, which compares child...
View ArticleBaby with two faces worshipped as Hindu god
A baby girl born with two faces in a north Indian village is being worshipped as the reincarnation of the Hindu god, Lord Ganesha. The three-week-old unnamed baby from Saini village in Uttar Pradesh...
View ArticleCross-border child removal issues plague NRI families
There are over 30 million NRIs, PIOs and overseas Indian citizens spread across 130 countries. Accelerated cross-border migration of Indians acts as a catalyst to multi-national matrimonial relationships.
View ArticleMore than 40% of the world’s child marriages take place in India
More than 40% of the world's child marriages take place in India. Worldwide, more than 60 million women between 20-24 were married before they were 18. Child brides become mothers much before their...
View ArticleAll about India’s biggest killer disease of girls and women
Anaemia is the biggest killer of girls and women in India. The latest National Family Health Survey has shown that most Indians have anaemia. The survey’s findings reveal that over 70% of children, 55...
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