The Centre is planning to tighten regulations on paediatric cough syrups, with the health ministry proposing to bar their prescription for children below two years and discourage their use for those under five, Mint reported Saturday. The move, part of the draft National Formulary of India (NFI) 2026 released by the Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission…
INDORE: Alarmed by eight instances of elopement in the past six months, Panchewa village panchayat in MP’s Ratlam district on Saturday issued a decree, calling for total social and economic boycott of the families whose children opt for love marriages.The ‘Khap-style’ decree sparked tension in the village, prompting Jat community members, along with Rashtriya Jat…
At least nine people, including five children, were stabbed to death overnight in Suriname’s capital Paramaribo, police said on Sunday, adding that the suspect was wounded and taken into custody.“During the night from Saturday, December 27, to Sunday, December 28, a male individual killed four adults and five children with a sharp object. A sixth…
Xu Bo, a 48-year-old Chinese billionaire and founder of online gaming company Duoyi, has fathered more than 100 US-born children through surrogacy agencies and reportedly hopes they will one day marry Elon Musk’s children to create a sprawling family dynasty, according to social-media posts verified by the Wall Street Journal.Xu, who calls himself “China’s first…
Roblox implements new age verification for chat features Roblox, the global online game and social platform with more than 150 million daily users, has announced a major update to how users can communicate: a new age-based chat system that uses facial age-estimation and other age-verification methods to limit conversations between children and much older users….