Does it seem like most vegetables you serve your children end up left on the plate, or worse, strewn across the floor? But mention dessert, and your fruit skewers are polished off in an instant. Or maybe the carrot and cucumber sticks keep coming home in your child’s lunchbox untouched, yet the orange slices are nowhere to be seen. If you’re facing these struggles with your child, you’re not alone. Many children prefer fruit to vegetables. So if your child eats lots of fruit but minimal or no vegetables, is that OK? And how can you get them to eat

As record-breaking floods in North Queensland ease and water levels recede, the focus now turns to the mop-up and recovery. Residents have been supporting each other through the flood crisis, such as processing donated goods, conducting welfare checks on neighbours and helping each other clean up homes. Such community resilience in disasters is vital. Successive inquiries have shown we can’t rely solely on emergency services in large disasters. Crews can’t get to every community straight away, or provide support to every household that needs assistance. Our research shows how communities can be supported to respond in a crisis – during

New Delhi, Dec 20 (PTI): ISRO has ben awarded the 2023 Leif Erikson Lunar Prize by the Exploration Museum in Iceland’s Husavik for its successful Chandrayaan-3 mission. The award celebrates the first soft-landing of a spacecraft near the lunar south pole and ”ISRO’s indomitable spirit in advancing lunar exploration and contributing to understanding celestial mysteries,” the Embassy of India in Reykjavik said in a post on X. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman S Somanath sent a ”thank you” video message on the occasion and the prize was received on behalf of the space agency by Ambassador B Shyam. The

Mumbai: India’s drugs regulator has banned the use of an anti-cold drug combination in children aged below four and ordered that drugs should be labelled accordingly, in the wake of the deaths of at least 141 children globally linked to cough syrups. The regulator said concerns raised about promotion of an unapproved anti-cold drug formulation in infants prompted a discussion and a resulting recommendation to not use the combination for that age group. The order comes as India draws lessons from a spate of child deaths since 2019 that authorities linked to toxic cough syrups made in the country, including