Geeta Rao Gupta

16,000 children under age of five die every day: UNICEF

Nearly 5.9 million children will die before their fifth birthday this year mainly of preventable causes, a UN report has warned, though the child mortality rate has fallen by more than 50 per cent since 1990.

Sep 13, 2015, 15:52 PM IST

Bangladesh's child mortality rate drops in 25 years

Bangladesh's child mortality rate has dropped by 73 percent in the last 25 years.

Sep 10, 2015, 18:08 PM IST