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Wednesday, August 6, 2025
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Topic: UNICEF

India to have 31 cr school graduates by 2030 but over half will lack job skills: UNICEF

Kritika Sharma -
Only 47 per cent of Indian school graduates by 2030 will have the basic skills to be employable, says the UNICEF report.

Over 8.8 lakh deaths — India on top in UNICEF report on under-5 child mortality in 2018

Fatima Khan -
Nigeria saw 8.66 lakh deaths & Pakistan 4.09 lakh. UNICEF report says median under-5 mortality rate per 1,000 live births in India is 37, against Nigeria's 120 & Pakistan's 69.

Bihar’s snoozing govt, clueless doctors blame heat and litchis as encephalitis kills 110

Nandita Singh -
Nearly 110 children have died in Bihar this year due to Acute Encephalitis Syndrome, compared to 33 between 2015 and 2018.

UNICEF study shows why India needs to get cracking on becoming open defecation-free

Moushumi Das Gupta -
In villages of Bihar, Odisha & Bengal where open defecation still occurs, even household water is 2.77 times likelier to have faecal matter than ODF villages.

India records most number of New Year’s Day babies

PTI -
At 70,000, India had the highest number of births across the world on New Year's Day, coming ahead of countries such as China, Pakistan, and US.

When future of children is at stake, Modi must learn to share stage than hog limelight

Jyoti Malhotra -
The all-powerful Narendra Modi cannot undertake the task of helping India's children alone. He must involve others.

Nick Jonas lucked out with Priyanka Chopra — not the other way around

Sandip Roy -
Priyanka Chopra has done what no other Indian star has been able to do — cross over without sacrificing her stardom in either Bollywood or Hollywood.

Curbing teen pregnancy can help check India’s anaemia epidemic, study finds

Priyamvada Grover -
An estimated 53% of India’s women in the reproductive age group are said to suffer from anaemia, according to the latest National Family Health Survey.

Indian fathers get no paid paternity leave, despite high infant population

Yoshita Singh -
UNICEF says policy makers in India have proposed a national Paternity Benefit Bill which would allow fathers up to three months of paid paternity leave.

Maternal mortality drops 22%, India meets UN millennium development goal

Rahiba R. Parveen -
According to data released by the registrar general of India, Kerala registered the lowest maternal mortality ratio in 2014-16, at 46, emerging as one of the few states with a double-digit figure.
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Where is Skill India money going? It’s a Rs 48,000 crore mystery

Karti P Chidambaram -
All industries are still facing an acute shortage of skilled manpower despite thousands of crores spent on skilling schemes.

US-Pakistan romance is not new. Why does India feel betrayed?

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Gurugram dog attack is pet owners’ fault. It’s cruel to keep Siberian husky in this heat

Economy

BJP MPs go full throttle against Trump even as govt hails enduring India-US ties amid tariff tension

Shanker Arnimesh -
New Delhi: While the Indian government has made a measured response to the 25 percent trade tariff imposed by Donald Trump, many in the BJP...

Defence

Trump feared India could arm BrahMos with nuclear warhead to target Pakistan in Op Sindoor—WSJ report

Javaria Rana -
New Delhi: During Operation Sindoor, the United States which had received intelligence suggesting that India had launched BrahMos cruise missiles to strike targets inside...

National Interest

Pakistan, Dhaka have played Washington well. Back home, Modi ecosystem has an inner conflict

Shekhar Gupta -
To protect ourselves from Trumpian diplomacy, first we must introspect the bipolarity within our establishment discourse.

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