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Mexico City declared an air pollution alert for the second straight day Wednesday, urging people to stay indoors, canceling school and moving the semi-finals of the first-division football league to another city. The capital, whose sprawling...

Over 100 schools in Malaysia have been closed after the dumping of toxic waste into a river caused hundreds of people to fall ill, including many children, authorities said. A lorry is believed to have dumped...

Authorities here have asked Delhi schools to restrict their outdoor activities as stubble burning in neighbouriung Punjab and Haryana blackened skylines of the Indian capital. Officials and media reports today said the Delhi government overnight issued...

1 in 3 children and young people between 5 and 17 years old living in countries affected by conflict or disaster – 104 million – are not in school, a figure that accounts for more than...

early 23 million children are out of school in Pakistan. 23-year old social activist and educationist, Rohayl Varind set up two branches of Slum School in Faisalabad, around 323 KM south of capital Islamabad, offering night...

News Hour A school assembly and prize-giving ceremony to present awards to the most sanitized schools in Khulna was held in Shahid Hadis Park, Khulna yesterday. The event was held under the Sanitation Month and World...

News Hour: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and United Nations Children Funds (UNICEF)–Mongolia signed a cooperation agreement to improve water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) in schools and dormitories located in rural remote areas of the western...

News Hour: Shishuder Jonno program of Save the Children in Bangladesh has been working in partnership with the Directorate of Primary Education (DPE) to strengthen the government school monitoring system with an aim to have an...