At a time when they should be going to school, weavers' children are helping their parents to make ends meet. Since able-bodied adults are mostly busy with loom work, and elderly people are unable to perform fine work due to failing eye sight, children are roped in for making new wefts by joining threads to a piece from the old weave.

ON January 15, the production licences of three vaccine-manufacturing public enterprises under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoH&FW) were cancelled, and they were ordered to suspend production forthwith by the then Drug Controller General of India (DCGI), M.

WWF holds conservation carnival Our Staff Reporter Karachi - World Wild Fund (WWF)-Pakistan's Nature Carnival in collaboration with Global Conservation Organisation (GCO) organised an annual event on Sunday to create awareness among school children by practically involving them in fun-and-learn activities. A large number of School children along with their parents and teachers thronged to the PAF Museum in Karachi to participate in the event.

Slum-dwellers in Dar es Salaam pay the equivalent of

The Consumers International (CI) battle against marketing of unhealthy food to children has gathered support from domestic groups as well. The London-based CI is an independent consumer network with over 220 member organisations in 115 countries. Ahmedabad's Consumer Education and Research Centre (CERC) and Chennai's Consumers Association of India have joined CI's international research on the subject. Other than these, participating organisations are from the Philippines, Fiji, Malaysia and Korea.

The cashier counts the currency notes carefully, makes an entry in the passbook and hands it over to the waiting customer through a tiny window.

It seems the state Government has made a total mess of the Central funds meant for children under the Supplementary Nutrition Programme (SNP).