Tuesday, July 2, 2024

Children

Pakistani startup for kids with special needs wins big at US contest

Team of startup WonderTree made Pakistanis proud by winning third prize at the GIST TECH-I startup competition held at Stanford University WonderTree which develops interactive, augmented reality-based games for children with special needs using Microsoft Kinect technology, with a focus on...

Education Rankings 2016: Punjab tops, Balochistan and FATA lag far behind

Only 52% of government schools in the country have access to all four basic facilities which include toilets, boundary walls, electricity and drinking water, reveals the survey ISLAMABAD  - Pakistan District Education Rankings 2016 claims that Islamabad, Chakwal, and Kotli...

UN Committee to review Pakistan’s record on children’s rights

UN Committee on the Rights of the Child will review Pakistan's record on child rights on 25 and 26 May GENEVA – Children’s rights in Pakistan will be reviewed by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child on 25 and 26...

Summer vacations in Punjab schools to begin from May 24

Severe heat wave in Pakistan has prompted the authorities to revisit the timing of summer vacation from June 1 to May 24 in Punjab schools. LAHORE - The Punjab Government has announced to begin summer vacations in schools from Tuesday (24 May) due to ongoing intense heat...

Quetta’s ‘solar kids’ turn to normal life after treatment at PIMS

'Solar kids' who stop moving at night baffles doctors in Pakistan ISLAMABAD - 'Solar kids', the brothers who remained active during day but lapsed into vegetative state, unable to move or walk once the sun goes down, have turned to...

New Strategy discussed to Eliminate Child & Bonded Labour in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD - Over thirty high-level representatives of the Federal and Provincial Governments, Employers and Workers  gathered  in Islamabad to discuss and draw consensus on the goals, components and implementation structure of the draft ”National Strategy on the Elimination of Child and Bonded Labour...

Al Shifa Trust launches first children eye hospital in Islamabad

Services of Al-Shifa trust to save millions of eye sights: President Mamnoon Husain   RAWALPINDI -  Pakistan’s first children eye hospital is a gift to the society which will play a leading role in combating the disease of blindness among...

Pakistani girl wins UN children’s poster competition

“My painting personifies the darkness and confinement within a person’s life and once the person is set free from the pressures and judgement of others, one can freely express their thoughts and imagination in their true colors” Eiza wrote GENEVA...

Kiddle – a safe search engine for kids unveiled

A new search engine – Kiddle – aims to be like a Google Search for children, with results filtered to bring up ‘safe’ sites and sites written in simple language. Kiddle uses Google colours but instead of the traditional white...

Majority of Punjab’s brick kiln child-workers enrolled in schools

Around 18,622 out of 23,000 children working in brick kilns in Punjab have been enrolled in schools LAHORE - “Out of 23,000 working children in brick kilns in Pakistan, 18,622 have been successfully enrolled in schools for education” said Raja Ashfaq Sarwar, Minister for...

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South Korea’s KAI signs $1.4 billion deal to launch mass production of homegrown KF-21 fighter jets

Nine years after the development of South Korea’s KF-21 Boramae began, the Korean government finalized a significant deal with Korea Aerospace Industries for the production of 20 fighter jets