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Prez Droupadi Murmu to confer national award on 11 children Monday

President Droupadi Murmu on Monday will confer the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar (PMRBP) 2023 on 11 children for their exceptional achievements. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will interact with the awardees on Tuesday. Minister of Women and Child Development Smriti Zubin Irani will also interact with the children and congratulate them in the presence of Minister of State for Women and Child Development Munjpara Mahendrabhai, according to an official statement. There are six boys and five girls among the awardees from 11 states and UTs Each awardee of the PMRBP will be given a medal, a cash prize of Rs 1 Lakh and a certificate. The Union government the PMRBP award to children for their exceptional achievements. The award is conferred on children in the age group 5-18 for their excellence in six categories, viz art and culture, bravery, innovation, scholastic, social service and sports, which deserve national recognition. This year, the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar

Learning curves

ASER reflects challenges for govt's education programme

Covid-19 vaccine safe in children, adolescents with MIS-C : Study

Scientists demonstrated that it is safe for children and adolescents to get a COVID-19 vaccine after having multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C). The researchers found that there were no reports of serious complications including myocarditis or MIS-C reoccurrence. About half of participants experienced mild and typical reactions, including arm soreness and fatigue, they said. The multicentre, observational study, the largest of its kind to examine COVID vaccination in this group, helps resolve a lingering question about whether the COVID vaccine can increase the risk of health problems in young people who have had MIS-C. The study appears in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Network Open. MIS-C is a poorly understood condition that affects 1 in about 3,000 to 4,000 children and adolescents who had COVID-19, according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It occurs a few weeks after COVID infection and can lead to organ failure. MIS-C ...

US reports nearly 48,000 weekly child Covid-19 cases, shows report

There is a need to collect more age-specific data to assess the severity of illness related to new variants as well as potential longer-term effects, the report added

J&K approves rehabilitation policy for Children in Street Situation

Jammu and Kashmir Administrative Council which met under the chairmanship of Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, accorded its approval to the Rehabilitation Policy for Children in Street Situation (CiSS)

Byju's allegedly buying contacts of children, threatening parents: NCPCR

The child panel took action based on a news report that the company's sales team was engaging in dishonest behaviour to persuade parents to purchase their courses for their kids

Canada approves first bivalent Covid-19 booster for children aged 5-11

Health Canada previously authorised this bivalent booster for use in individuals aged 12 years and older on October 7

NGOs to refrain from showing 'vulnerable children in deplorable condition'

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has asked NGOs to refrain from showing "vulnerable children in deplorable condition" in their advertisements to raise funds. In a notice to NGOs, the apex child rights body said a Member of Parliament had raised concern with the commission that various non-government organisations -- domestic and international -- were raising funds through advertisements on print media, news channels, websites and social media while showing "vulnerable minor children in deplorable condition". The child rights panel said, "The commission in the said regard observes that such activities is a violation of child rights, which is in contravention of provisions of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015... "...therefore the commission recommends your good offices to refrain from practising any such activities that involves using of pictures, videos or any such material that showcases vulnerable children in deplorable condition

Assam Assembly to discuss child protection issues during budget session

Assam Assembly Speaker Biswajit Daimary on Monday said child protection issues will be discussed in the House during the budget session. A day will be fixed when all MLAs and UNICEF officials and other stakeholders will discuss issues being faced by children and ways to resolve those, he said while speaking at a function to distribute fellowship awards to journalists to commemorate World's Children Day here. An amount of Rs 1 lakh will be earmarked for every legislator to create awareness about child protection and drug abuse in their respective constituencies. Assam State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (ASCPCR) chairperson Sunita Changkakoti said child trafficking is the most inhuman problem faced by children in the state. "We take suo motu cognisance of such cases but most of the accused manage to get bail which is a matter of great concern," she said. UNICEF Northeast chief Madhulika Jonathan highlighted various problems faced by children in the region, particularly

4.8 mn children to get Japanese Encephalitis vaccine from Dec 5: K'taka Min

A special vaccination drive to inoculate an estimated 48 lakh children aged between 1-15 against Japanese Encephalitis (JE) will be held in Karnataka from December 5 for a period of three weeks, State Health Minister K Sudhakar said on Sunday. Encephalitis is the inflammation of the brain caused by either infection or an allergic reaction. "JE is one of the most common causes of Encephalitis in India and a total of 68,000 cases are reported every year. Among these, the death rate is around 20 to 30 per cent. Among those who are cured, 30 to 50 per cent of people end up with sensory and motor weakness, and other permanent physical and mental disabilities," Sudhakar said. "In the first week now (December), vaccinations will primarily be focused on Private and Government schools, following this, in the next two weeks, we will be focusing on vaccination drives in health institutions, Anganwadi centers and among communities," he said. Union Health Ministry will be supplying the Jenvac .

NHRC issues notices to Bihar, TN on alleged abuse of orphaned children

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notices to the governments of Bihar and Tamil Nadu over the alleged abuse of 12 orphaned children in a madrassa in the southern state. The commission has taken suo motu cognisance of a media report that said two persons have been arrested in Chennai for housing and abusing orphaned juveniles from Bihar. Twelve children were rescued from the madrassa located at Ponniammanmedu, the NHRC said. The commission has issued notices to the chief secretaries of Tamil Nadu and Bihar and the Chennai police commissioner calling for a detailed report in the matter within four weeks. The media report published on December 1 claimed that police had got information through the '1098' helpline that some children are being subjected to harassment and physical abuse in a madrassa at Ponniammanmedu near Madhavaram in Chennai, the NHRC said. It was reported that a criminal case has been registered under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Coder a

TikTok's new challenge luring young kids to their deaths: Report

Blackout challenge, also called the 'pass-out challenge', encourages kids to hold their breath until they fall unconscious, sometimes with the help of objects

Inheritance rights of adopted children vary on the basis of religion

Hindu and Christian personal law treat adopted child on a par with natural-born ones

Coronavirus likely to increase risk of stroke in children, claims study

Children may be at increased risk of stroke after COVID-19 infection, according to a small study conducted in the US. The research, published this week in the journal Pediatric Neurology, reviewed medical charts and diagnosis codes to identify 16 hospital patients who had an ischemic stroke between March 2020 and June 2021. Most of those took place between February and May 2021, shortly after the surge of COVID pediatric cases. Of those tested for COVID antibodies, nearly half tested positive. None of the 16 had been severely sick with the virus and some had been asymptomatic, the researchers said. Five patients were not tested for past COVID infection, a limitation of the study, they said. "It may be that hyper-immune response that comes later that's causing kids to clot," said MaryGlen J. Vielleux, a pediatric neurology resident at University of Utah Health and lead author of the study. "Overall, kids have a relatively low risk for stroke, but there is a rare but real risk afte

Parents have crucial role in safeguarding children from drug abuse: Experts

Raja Shanmugam from FWF said the age of a child is a sensitive factor which should be taken into serious consideration by the parents

For 19 months in pandemic, 43% children had no access to education: Study

The socially and economically disadvantaged groups and children with disabilities were worst impacted as compared to more advantaged counterparts: Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy's report

500,000 children face physical assaults every year in Pakistan: Expert

About five lakh children are subjected to physical assaults every year in Pakistan, according to a report released by child experts.The report is a grim reminder of Pakistan's human rights situation and rampant prevalence of child abuse in the country, reported Pak vernacular media, Sindh Express.According to the report, around 46 lakh girl children are married at less than 15 years of their age, and about 1.90 crore children are married even before they are 18 years of age."We think the federal government should go for a crackdown against such malpractices; also those pressurizing children for begging be immediately arrested and be it, parents or guardians," said the report.Further, the report suggested that children found begging on roads should be given safe shelter and strategies be made for making them good citizens by getting them education and skill training, reported Sindh Express.It is an admitted fact that whatever atmosphere a child gets from birth till the age of seven ...

Covid-19 pandemic caused lack of communication skills in babies: Research

A recent study by the Harvard Medical School revealed that children born in 2020 lack the necessary communication skills due to Covid-19 Pandemic

Children aged 8 or younger face higher risk of monkeypox: Researchers

Children aged 8 years or younger should be considered a group at high risk for more severe monkeypox disease, researchers report.

222 mn Indian children face double threat of disasters, poverty: Report

About 51 per cent of children in India are living under the dual impacts of poverty and the climate emergency, according to a new study. There are almost 350 million children across Asia, including 222 million in India, who are gripped by both grinding poverty and climate disaster, the 'Generation Hope: 2.4 billion reasons to end the global climate and inequality crisis' report stated. Developed by child rights NGO Save the Children and climate modelling from researchers at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, it also stated that Cambodia topped the list of Asian countries most likely to face this "double threat", with 72 per cent of children in the country affected, followed by Myanmar (64 per cent) and Afghanistan (57 per cent). However, India was ranked the highest globally in terms of overall number of children facing this "double threat" of poverty and climate disaster, it stated. While 351.9 million children in India are estimated to be affected by at least one extreme climate eve