Child Death Ratio

Six million children worldwide died last year from preventable diseases and other complications, which was about half the number of similar deaths in 2000 when nations endorsed goals to end extreme poverty, the United Nations said on Tuesday

Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh today took a jibe at the Prime Minister Narendra Modi for calling Kerala "God's own country" after he compared it to "impoverished Somalia" in May. The Prime Minister had unfavourably compared Kerala with the African nation by calling attention to the high child death ratio among Scheduled Tribes.

Congress on Friday urged the Election Commission to prohibit Prime Minister Narendra Modi from campaigning in Kerala for Assembly elections for his remarks comparing child death ratio in the state with that of Somalia, saying he has "distorted facts" which amounted to violation of the model code.

India's shameful and sordid story of unwanted daughters continues. In the latest incident, a woman in Amritsar was allegedly strangled to death by her husband after she gave birth to a baby girl for the third time.

Six million children worldwide died last year from preventable diseases and other complications, which was about half the number of similar deaths in 2000 when nations endorsed goals to end extreme poverty, the United Nations said on Tuesday

Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh today took a jibe at the Prime Minister Narendra Modi for calling Kerala "God's own country" after he compared it to "impoverished Somalia" in May. The Prime Minister had unfavourably compared Kerala with the African nation by calling attention to the high child death ratio among Scheduled Tribes.

Congress on Friday urged the Election Commission to prohibit Prime Minister Narendra Modi from campaigning in Kerala for Assembly elections for his remarks comparing child death ratio in the state with that of Somalia, saying he has "distorted facts" which amounted to violation of the model code.

India's shameful and sordid story of unwanted daughters continues. In the latest incident, a woman in Amritsar was allegedly strangled to death by her husband after she gave birth to a baby girl for the third time.