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    • Posts Tagged ‘children’

    Kashmiri students less cynical than Delhi counterparts

    CHILDREN

    NEW DELHI: Years of violence and strife do not seem to have made the children of Kashmir a cynical and untrusting lot. In a research innovation project initiated by the students and teachers at Delhi University's Lady Shri Ram College for Women where students and teachers from the Valley and Delhi were surveyed, a large number of Kashmiri students had more positive perceptions of their peers than their counterparts in Delhi. The participants of the study sample comprised 13 school principals, 35 teachers, 153 students...

    Posted 129 days ago.

    Now nutrition centre for Kashmir's malnourished children

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    Ishfaq Tantry SRINAGAR: The GB Pant Children’s Hospital, which is the only hospital catering to children of the Kashmir valley, is setting up a special facility for the undernourished children of the region. The hospital will set up a 10-bedded Nutrition Rehabilitation Centre (NRC), where undernourished and acutely malnutritioned children will be treated and rehabilitated. Besides, in the new centre being established within the hospital premises, mothers of such undernourished children...

    Posted 142 days ago.

    Kashmir children hospital to tag babies to prevent infection, swapping

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    Azhar Qadri SRINAGAR, Dec 5: Kashmir’s leading children hospital, which was in news earlier this year over the high number of infant deaths, has initiated tagging newborn babies to prevent infection and avoid the chances of swapping or accidental exchange. The G B Pant Hospital here, which has infant patients coming from across the Valley, has introduced separate colour-coded identity bands for baby-girl and baby-boy patients. “Neonates admitted in the hospital will be tagged with...

    Posted 168 days ago.

    Army's new role: teaching Jammu's tribal children

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    Binoo Joshi JAMMU, Oct 29: The Indian Army has donned a new role in Jammu and Kashmir, with the border state enjoying a period of relative peace. It had adopted a project to educate the children of Gujjars and Bakerwals, tribal goatherds and shepherds who inhabit the Pir Panjal range in the state's Jammu region. The classes were held for a month at Bhattadurian, Chhatral and Poshiana villages of Poonch district, about 260 km northwest of Jammu. The army personnel conducted lessons in...

    Posted 205 days ago.

    Six-year-old sets example of bravery in Kashmir

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    Ishfaq-ul-Hassan SRINAGAR, Aug 12: A six-year-old lost his life when he displayed indomitable courage and jumped into the Dal Lake to unsuccessfully save his two-year-old sister from drowning. Asif Ali set an example of bravery when he tried to save Sakeena who accidently slipped into the lake while playing close to their home at Sheikh Moholla-Mir Bahri. “Two weeks before also Sakeena had accidently slipped into the lake and Asif had managed to pull her off. This time however he failed...

    Posted 283 days ago.

    Kashmir's children of conflict paint 'rage and depression'

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    Naseer Ganai SRINAGAR, July 5:Kashmiri youth have in the past taken up guns to express their anger. But these youngsters have taken up the paintbrush to express the turbulence, suffering, depression and anger that they have internalised over the years. "There is a reflection of anger, rage and depression in Kashmiri art," says Dena Lawrence, an Australian art psychotherapist, who on Tuesday displayed art work by her students in a Srinagar college. Black was the predominant colour in almost...

    Posted 321 days ago.

    Broom-toting Kashmir cops start op clean-up

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    Ashiq Hussain SRINAGAR, May 26: Kashmir's gun-toting policemen took up unusual 'weapons' - brooms and mops - to clean up the beleaguered GB Pant Hospital. The police launched a special cleanliness drive at the hospital, which is reeling under a shortage of manpower and infrastructure. The only paediatric and neo-natal health institution of the valley has been in the news for hundreds of infant deaths this year. In the morning, a large contingent from the Srinagar Police Lines was pressed...

    Posted 361 days ago.

    After infant deaths, a new children's hospital for Kashmir

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    SRINAGAR, May 22: A new state of art children hospital would be set up near Kashmir's main SMHS hospital, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has said on Tuesday, days after protests over 360 infants deaths in the valley. "We are now constructing a new children's hospital near SMHS hospital on modern lines. This will help to dovetail the facilities and reduce the distance of children's hospital from Lal Ded (maternity hospital)," Omar said during an interaction with civil society members here last evening. Omar criticised...

    Posted 365 days ago.

    Two children drown in Kashmir

    SRINAGAR, May 13: Two boys, including a three-year-old, drowned in separate incidents in Kashmir Valley on Sunday. Three-year-old Tajamul Nisar drowned in a stream near Watrigam village in Budgam district while a 13-year-old boy, Faizan Ahmad Chopan died after he slipped into deep waters while taking a bath in a pond at Lassipora village in Kupwara district, police said. Both the bodies had been retrieved and handed over to their families.

    Posted 374 days ago.

    Kashmir new paradise of children’s trafficking

    India - Earthquake Aftermath - Kashmir

    SRINAGAR, March 24: The Valley of Kashmir is becoming a new paradise for child traffickers as Save the Children, a UK-based NGO, has revealed that Kashmiri children are sexually exploited and subjected to child labour. The menace of child trafficking, hitherto unknown to the Valley, came to fore after police arrested two health department employees and recovered a 3-day female infant from them. The incident that took place in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district early this week has triggered a panic among...

    Posted 423 days ago.