Child Mortality Rates
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Data check: Uttar Pradesh’s child mortality rate is as alarming as Afghanistan’s
Nearly 60 of every 1,000 children born in the state die before their fifth birthday.
Nushaiba Iqbal, IndiaSpend.com
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In India, 8.8 lakh children under five years – highest in the world – died in 2018, says UNICEF
The report, which was released on Wednesday, pointed out that malnutrition caused 69% of under-five deaths in India.
Scroll Staff
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India accounted for 24% of all newborn deaths in 2016, says United Nations report
The number of deaths among under-five children continued to decline globally, but was still significant at 5.6 million in 2016.
Scroll Staff
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Mauritian Bhojpuri is being dressed in Hindu nationalist robes – and I’m in mourning
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Young professionals are fleeing crisis-hit Pakistan in hope of a better future
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Watch: ‘3 Idiots’ stars Aamir Khan, Sharman Joshi, R Madhavan comically reunite to promote new film
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Toddler says she didn’t like ‘Pathaan’, Shah Rukh Khan posts video with a promise to work harder
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Infant mortality rate drops 8% in 2016, Goa registers least deaths
Madhya Pradesh, with 47 deaths per 1,000 live births, and Assam and Odisha, with 44 each, had the worst figures.
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Infant mortality rate drops 8% in 2016, Goa registers least deaths
Madhya Pradesh, with 47 deaths per 1,000 live births, and Assam and Odisha, with 44 each, had the worst figures.
Scroll Staff
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Watch: How physics helped save millions of premature babies
When a different branch of science came to the help of the medical one.
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Toddler says she didn’t like ‘Pathaan’, Shah Rukh Khan posts video with a promise to work harder
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Watch: TV host Ellen DeGeneres surprised with marriage vow renewal ceremony by wife Portia de Rossi
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Watch: This dog was taking a ride on the roof of a car in Bengaluru
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Eco India: Why are sparrows continuing to disappear from Indian cities?
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Beyond Modi's Somalia jibe: 13 African nations have better infant mortality rates than India
States ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party do worse than Africa’s safest countries for child birth.
Prachi Salve, IndiaSpend.com
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Rural medical staff in India make diarrhoea life-threatening
India’s strategies to reduce child mortality rates, among the world’s highest, need to be reassessed.
Samar Halarnkar, IndiaSpend.com