ISLAMABAD: The first National Immunisation Days (NIDs) campaign of 2022 successfully reached more than 43 million under-five children with life saving vaccines. Over 339,521 trained and dedicated polio workers were engaged in the vaccination drive to inoculate children at their doorstep. Dr. Shahzad Baig, Coordinator of the National Emergency Operations Centre, Polio Eradication Initiative (PEI), […]
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Shakira’s children are not allowed to listen mother’s songs at home: here is why
Children of the famous globally renowned singer Shakira are not allowed to listen to the songs of their mother at home. Famous Columbian singer, mentioning it in her recent interview at Entertainment Tonight, “I don’t make them listen to my music”. She said, “I try to avoid playing my own music in my house, in […]
UN calls for Covid-closed schools to reopen ASAP
Schools closed due to the coronavirus pandemic must reopen as soon as possible, the United Nations insisted Tuesday, estimating that the education of more than 600 million children was at stake. “This cannot go on,” James Elder, spokesman for the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), told reporters in Geneva. While acknowledging the difficult choices that governments […]
75 children killed, around 1,000 detained since Myanmar coup: UN experts
Dozens of children have been killed and hundreds arbitrarily detained in Myanmar since a coup more than five months ago, UN rights experts warned Friday. The UN child rights committee said it had received “credible information” that 75 children had been killed and around 1,000 arrested in Myanmar since February 1. “Children in Myanmar are […]
Children murdered in Faisalabad
A 9-year-old boy and a 15-year-old housemaid were allegedly killed in two separate incidents in Faisalabad. A 9-year-old boy was hit in the chest with a brick during a children’s argument, while the body of a 15-year-old housemaid was found in a room. Police have arrested two teenage boys, their father, allegedly involved in the […]
Two children die under train in Sukkur
In Sukkur a freight train crushed two children to death and injured two others. The tragic accident occurred on Monday. According to police, four children were grazing their cattle near Mando Dero railway station when the accident took place. The bodies of the deceased and those injured were shifted to a nearby hospital, the police […]
Indian baby found in box floating on Ganges
Indian police said Thursday they have launched an investigation after a newborn baby was found alive and well in a wooden box floating on the Ganges river. The inside of the box was lined with red cloth and contained images of Hindu gods as well as a horoscope giving the date and time of the […]
German mother on trial for killing five of her children
A 28-year-old woman went on trial in Germany on Monday accused of smothering five of her six children in the bath, in what prosecutors called a particularly “malicious” case. The accused, identified only as Christiane K., faces a life sentence if found guilty of the murders by the district court of Wuppertal in western Germany. […]
Body of girl snatched by father found off Spanish island
The body of a six-year-old girl has been found off Tenerife island six weeks after she and her sister were snatched by their father in a discovery that has shocked Spain. Olivia and her one-year-old sister Anna were reported missing in the Canary Islands on April 27 after their father made a phone call “with […]
Families appeal for aid freeing kidnapped Nigerian schoolkids
Relatives of scores of schoolchildren kidnapped by gunmen from an Islamic seminary over the weekend have appealed to the government to help free them, after the latest mass abduction to target a Nigerian school. Some 200 children were at the school in Tegina, central Niger state, when it was raided on Sunday, the local government […]