Do We Know What Our Children Want?

"There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place."

J.K. Rowling

Over the last one century or so, ordin...

Children's Health, Privacy At Risk From Digital Marketing

The World Health Organization (WHO) Has Published The Report, Which Calls For Immediate Action By Policy Makers To Recognise And Address The Growing Issue Of Targeted Marke...

Opinion: Tuberculosis Is A Forgotten Priority For Child Health

I was exposed to the plight of children with tuberculosis early in my 32 years of experience as a physician. I was a medical intern in a provincial hospital in Peru’s...

Female Child Has Equal Rights Like Boys: SC

"Female child is entitled to enjoy equal rights that a male child is allowed to have," the Supreme Court observed on Tuesday, passing a slew of directions, including mainti...

Why 10 Million Indian Women Secretly Undergo Abortions Every Year

Millions of women become pregnant because they lack access to contraceptive devices to limit or space their families, or are ignorant about them. In 2008, Arti Chauhan (nam...

When Genetic Screening Goes Very, Very Wrong

Teenagers don't routinely drop dead of cardiac failure. As a cause of death among individuals aged 12 to 19, heart disease barely even rates, staking out a mere 3 perc...

Kind World: 6-Year-Old Devises Plan To Cure Best Friend's Rare Disease

Dylan Siegel was 6 years old when he hatched a plan to cure his best friend's rare disease. He ended up raising more than $1 million. Erika Lantz of the Kind World ser...

A 13-Year-Old Boy Who Trains On Mud Courts In His Village Wins The National Tennis Title

In defiance of the belief that only high-end infrastructure and expensive facilities can produce talented tennis players, a boy from Gohana, who learnt and practised the sp...

No Rights, No Sex: The Powerful History Of Women Going On Strike

Protesting a recent proposal to completely ban abortion in Poland, tens of thousands of women went on strike on Monday, boycotting school, work, and household chores and ma...