School Children

Four in ten schools around the world lack basic soap and water hand washing facilities during COVID-19, UN says

818 million children were affected with the virus and 355 million went to schools which had facilities with water but no soap.

Current outrage over #BoisLockerRoom tells us that nobody is counting on a systemic change

If you are as outraged as I am over the leaked screenshots of #BoisLockerRoom — an Instagram handle where teenage boys (and a few girls) shared obscene messages and screenshots of underage girls — but found any of the other instances above "ok" or "just harmless fun yaar", then, yes, you live in the locker room.

28 children injured after school bus overturns in Rajasthan's Dausa district; one child critical

At least 28 school children were injured when their school bus turned turtle in Rajasthan's Dausa district on Saturday, police said.

School bus overturns in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar; five children injured

At least five school children were injured after their bus overturned on Monday on the Thanabhawan road in Muzaffarnagar, police said. The children were students of the Nalanda Public School

Kushinagar accident updates: Dozens of protesters throng mishap site; Yogi Adityanath blames van driver

At least 13 school children died on Thursday after the vehicle carrying them collided with a train at an unmanned crossing in Uttar Pradesh's Kushinagar.

Speeding vehicle kills 9 children in Bihar: Police, Tejashwi Yadav say car belonged to BJP leader; party denies charge

RJD said the speeding vehicle that killed nine school students and injured 24 in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district belongs to BJP leader Manoj Baitha from Sitamarhi district

Hyderabad's tryst with LSD: Undercover operation reveal city minors falling prey to psychedelic drugs

Recent raids and seizure of psychedelic drugs like LSD, Molecule and MDMA or ecstasy has shown that not just metros but even cities like Hyderabad are rising in the drug map with several consumers being teenagers

China kindergarten blast: At least eight killed in explosion, 65 critically injured

Eight people were killed and 65 injured on Thursday in an explosion at a kindergarten in eastern China that police have described as a "criminal" act

Three lakh school children in Kerala will come to form ICT Club under IT@School Project

Three lakh schoolchildren in Kerala will, in two years time, come under the ICT Club, the largest students' IT network in the country managed by the state-owned IT@School Project.

Google announces Doodle4Google 2016 finalists

The company earlier announced the competition some time back giving a chance for students to draw doodles that can be featured as the official Google Doodle.