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36 lakh Iraqi children at risk, due to surge in violence: Unicef The grievous rise of conflict in West Asian country --   Iraq   has left 36 lakh children, which is one in five of the country’s   children   at   risk   of death, injury, sexual violence or abduction, according to a recent report by United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (Unicef). In a report titled   A Heavy Price for Children,   the UN children's agency said that the number of children in Iraq were at serious risk of   death   or wartime exploitation had increased by 13 lakh in the past 18 months. The report said that 47 lakh Iraqi children --- a third of all, need humanitarian aid, with deteriorating conditions following the fierce military operations in Fallujah and around Mosul. As the scale and complexity of the humanitarian crisis in the country, reeling from nearly four decades of conflict, insecurity and neglect, where the impact on children worsens ev...

Moved by the tragic case of a 17-year- old   IIT   aspirant who committed suicide a day after clearing her exam, the Kota district collector has written an emotional letter to parents of over 1.50 lakh students in coaching institutes, asking them not to force their expectations on the children. The five-page letter by Collector Ravi Kumar Surpur has been dispatched to the coaching institutes in the city and will be forwarded to the parents after translation into Hindi and other regional languages. Referring to suicides by young students, the district collector wrote that for all of them death was a much peaceful and effortless action than going through the dilemma of artificially doing what their parents wanted them to do. "Your solacing words of comfort, asking them to give their best and forget the results could have been the blade of grass" that would have saved precious lives, he wrote, adding, instead, what they got were threats to perform even better. ...