Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
NEW DELHI: Instead of initiating a fresh tendering process, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi has decided to extend its contract with eight voluntary organisations providing mid-day meal in its schools by another two years after reviewing their performance after one year of awarding the contract in April 2008. However, there …
NEW DELHI A 14-month-old has become the second victim to be detected with polio in the city this year. However, the reason of the infection is yet to be known. The child
High child mortality rates and resurgence of communicable diseases that were more or less eradicated, should be a matter of grave concern The poor progress on the immunisation front, as reflected in the continuing high rate of child mortality and the resurgence of communicable diseases that were once more or …
ASIT JOLLY CHANDIGARH The startling discovery of Uranium in the hair of children suffering from cerebral palsy in southwestern Punjab has prompted a broad-based scientific investigation involving Amritsar
Guru Nanak Dev University has claimed that high uranium content have been found in water samples collected from Bathinda and its suburbs and it is the main reason of a high incidence of cancer among local people. Sources from university
Gurgaon: Nearly 12 kids were taken to various hospitals of the city after they consumed seeds of Jetropa plant here today. Children of Basai Enclave colony were playing in the garden of their colony and swallowed the seeds by mistake. They are between seven and 10 years of age. The …
The Campaign for Right to Education in Jharkhand (CREJ) asked political parties to make child rights a part of their election manifesto. Releasing a document
The Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Faridkot, on orders of the Deputy Commissioner, Faridkot, today went to the Baba Farid Centre for Special Children and forcibly cut hair of children who cannot speak. The CMO, along with a team of doctors, was at the centre to take blood and hair samples …
This recent study conducted by Professor David Rich and colleagues from the School of Public Health in Piscataway, New Jersey, found that exposure to traffic pollution could affect fetal development and lead to an increased chance of having a small baby. This study suggest that ambient air pollution, perhaps specifically …
MUMBAI: The Pulse Polio drive on Sunday covered 68% of the 13.25 lakh children below the age of five years, said civic officials. "There has been a drop of 1% to 2 % since the last drive, perhaps because of the heat,'' said Dr M Gomare, who is in charge …
Chandigarh: The curious finding of uranium in the hair and bodies of mentally and physically challenged children in Faridkot has impelled the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) to send an investigative team to Faridkot. S K Malhotra, DAE spokesperson in Mumbai, told TOI,
A polio scare was triggered in Dumka after 181 children with deformed limbs arrived in the district from Soraiyahat block last night. The children, in the age group of 1 to 12 years, were on their way to Ranchi for check-up at a free medical camp. The camp, organised by …
New Delhi: With Anbumani Ramadoss resigning from the Union Health Minister post recently, the plan to introduce pentavalent vaccines from April 1 is unlikely to take off. The pentavalent vaccine
Faridkot: High levels of radioactive element in special children: Experts collect water samples After finding high levels of uranium in the hair samples of differently-abled children, experts have now sent water samples for testing to find the source of this radioactive element. Experts and doctors working at Baba Farid Centre …
Chandigarh: Punjab government ordered a probe into the abnormalities among children in a pocket of Faridkot due to alarming levels of uranium on Thursday. The move comes after TOI
Of the thirty samples collected as part of the study, the samples of three students contained more than 10 microgram per decilitre (mpd). The permissible limit is up to 10mpd. Presence of lead is alarmingly high in the blood samples of children studying in Government Model School in Byramangala in …
Sixteen students were taken ill after midday meals at a school in Ajmer on Wednesday. Nine students fell unconscious while others complained of nausea soon after having their lunch. District midday meal incharge Ashok Sharma said a dead lizard was found in the meals.
