NEW DELHI: Instead of initiating a fresh tendering process, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi has decided to extend its contract with eight voluntary organisations providing mid-day meal in its schools by another two years after reviewing their performance after one year of awarding the contract in April 2008.

NEW DELHI A 14-month-old has become the second victim to be detected with polio in the city this year. However, the reason of the infection is yet to be known.

Half of the country

High child mortality rates and resurgence of communicable diseases that were more or less eradicated, should be a matter of grave concern

New York: Researchers in the United States have suggested that exposure to pollution during pregnancy could harm babies.

ASIT JOLLY
CHANDIGARH

The startling discovery of Uranium in the hair of children suffering from cerebral palsy in southwestern Punjab has prompted a broad-based scientific investigation involving Amritsar

Guru Nanak Dev University has claimed that high uranium content have been found in water samples collected from Bathinda and its suburbs and it is the main reason of a high incidence of cancer among local people.

Sources from university

Gurgaon: Nearly 12 kids were taken to various hospitals of the city after they consumed seeds of Jetropa plant here today. Children of Basai Enclave colony were playing in the garden of their colony and swallowed the seeds by mistake. They are between seven and 10 years of age. The kids started vomiting and were taken to different hospitals.

The Campaign for Right to Education in Jharkhand (CREJ) asked political parties to make child rights a part of their election manifesto.

The Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Faridkot, on orders of the Deputy Commissioner, Faridkot, today went to the Baba Farid Centre for Special Children and forcibly cut hair of children who cannot speak. The CMO, along with a team of doctors, was at the centre to take blood and hair samples of children.