-The Times of India BENGALURU: From growing divorce cases of parents to dysfunctional families to a changing atmosphere in schools and colleges, children aged below 18 in India are increasingly finding it difficult to cope with situations and are straying, reveals an analysis of the latest crime statistics. Raising questions on the belief that children without parents and those living on the streets are more prone to committing crimes, data from the...
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Mobile screens worse than TV, says study -GS Mudur
-The Telegraph New Delhi: Schoolchildren who spend seven hours or more a week gazing into computers or mobile phone screens appear to be at highest risk of worsening myopia, India's largest study to progressively track children's eyesight has suggested. The study by ophthalmologists at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, has found that six hours or more per day of reading or writing or four hours or more...
More »Police's Continued Victimisation of 'Denotified' Tribal Communities Can No Longer Go Unchallenged -Sujata Gothoskar
-TheWire.in Years of stigmatisation and harassment have pushed members of the Pardhi and other Adivasi communities in Bhopal to come together and protest police impunity. Fed up with police harassment, Indramal Bai committed suicide in the Gandhi Nagar basti of Bhopal on November 20, 2017. Nothing has changed over the last decade since Tanti Bai, a 14 year old, committed suicide for the very same reason on January 19, 2007. Both were...
More »India's Millets Makeover: Set To Reach Poor, School Meals -Charu Bahri
-IndiaSpend.com So far, only a few states such as Karnataka and Tamil Nadu had made available millets and that too only in certain pockets. The union government proposes to include coarse grains such as jowar (sorghum), bajra (pearl millet) and ragi (finger millet) in the mid-day meal programme in schools and also distribute it through the government subsidised food programme, the public distribution system (PDS), agriculture secretary SK Patnaik said recently. This announcement...
More »Can students with mental, visual and hearing impairment be clubbed with others, asks SC -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court was in for a surprise on Monday as it found that Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016, mandated no special educational techniques for students suffering from different kinds of impairment and to make them part of mainstream education. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud said it defied common sense that students with...
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