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‘BJP takes votes with Hindu-Muslim issues… MP govt celebrated festivals as children died’: Congress on cough syrup deaths

October 11, 2025 8:16 pm

State Congress chief says at least 22 children, mostly from Chhindwara district, died due to renal failure after consuming Coldrif cough syrup manufactured in Tamil Nadu’s Kancheepuram district

To combat high rates of child drowning deaths in the Sundarbans, India gets its first pond-based swimming pool

July 25, 2024 11:26 pm

Studies show that three children drown every day all over West Bengal, and the region also has the world’s highest rate of child mortality due to drowning.

Child deaths fall by 12 pc in Nandurbar, Amravati sees 37 pc decline: report

January 11, 2023 7:16 pm

In Nandurbar, the number of deaths of children up to the age of six during 2021-22 was 779 against 883 in 2017-18, a 11.7 per cent drop.

UNICEF warns of more child deaths as food costs soar

May 18, 2022 12:20 pm

UNICEF said 600,000 more children may miss out on essential treatment, which are packs containing high-energy paste made of ingredients including peanuts, oil, sugar and added nutrients.

No longer ‘hidden victims’, children are dying as virus surges in Indonesia

July 26, 2021 6:48 pm

The deaths, more than 100 a week this month, have come as Indonesia confronts its biggest surge yet in coronavirus cases overall.

United Nations: Over 10,000 children killed, maimed in conflicts worldwide in 2017

June 28, 2018 12:12 pm

At least 1,036 children were held in Iraqi detention facilities on national security-related charges, mostly for their alleged association with the Islamic State group.

30 children die in 48 hours at Gorakhpur's BRD Hospital, six due to encephalitis

November 05, 2017 10:07 pm

"Out of the 30, 15 children were younger than one month. Six kids died due to encephalitis, while the others died due to various reasons," said BRD Hospital's head of department of community medicine Dr DK Srivastava

Odisha: 151 infants died in Kendrapara hospitals in 4 months

September 08, 2015 4:54 pm

"While 22 neo-natal death cases of babies less than 28-days old were reported, 34 infant deaths were registered during April-July period," a district health official said.

After SC rap,UP forms panel to probe child deaths in relief camps

December 14, 2013 2:48 am

17 deaths,including that of five newborns,have been reported at relief camps in Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts.

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