Topic: Children
Government Issues Childhood Diabetes Management Guidelines
India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare launched the first-ever Guidance Document on Diabetes Mellitus in Children on 3 May 2026 at the National Summit on Best Practices...
ITCN Programme
The National Institute of Urban Affairs recently launched the Infant Toddler and Caregiver friendly Neighbourhoods Training and Capacity Building Programme. The Institute is partnered by Bernard van Leer...
Who are conferred with ‘Pradhan Mantri Bal Shakti Puraskar’ award?
Recently, the nominations of the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar for the year 2021 have been invited by the Ministry of Women and Child Development from children, individuals,...
Operation Muskaan launched
On July 14, 2020, Operation Muskaan was launched in the state of Andhra Pradesh. Highlights The operation aims at tracing missing children, prevent child labour and bonded child...
‘A Future for the World’s Children’ report released
A report titled ‘A Future for the World’s Children’ was recently released by a World Health Organization (WHO) Commission, UNICEF and the Lancet journal. The report included a...
February 10: National Deworming Day
Every year National Deworming Day is observed twice on February 10th and August 10th. The event is observed by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The implementing agency...
Prince Charles launches children’s protection fund for India
The Prince of Britain, Charles has recently unveiled a new children’s protection fund for India. This fund is a part of the charity founded by him in 2007,...
World Day against Child Labour
World Day against Child Labour 2019 was observed on 12 June to raise awareness about the plight of child labourers worldwide with the theme ‘Children shouldn t work...
Tackling Anaemia
Even though India has was to dramatically reduce the number of people living in extreme poverty from 306 million people living on less than $1.90 (on a PPP...
Criminal Laws (Rajasthan Amendment) Bill, 2018 Passed in Rajasthan
The Rajasthan Legislative Assembly has passed The Criminal Laws (Rajasthan Amendment) Bill, 2018 providing for death penalty for convicts involved in rape of girls below 12 years of...
