{"id":999769,"date":"2026-03-28T08:28:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T02:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999769"},"modified":"2026-03-28T08:41:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T03:11:23","slug":"digital-addiction-claims-20000-childrens-lives-a-year-says-tmcs-derek-obrien-urges-govt-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/28\/digital-addiction-claims-20000-childrens-lives-a-year-says-tmcs-derek-obrien-urges-govt-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital addiction claims 20,000 children&#8217;s lives a year, says TMC&#8217;s Derek O&#8217;Brien; urges govt action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trinamool Congress MP Derek O&#8217;Brien on Friday raised in the Rajya Sabha the issue of growing digital addiction among children and youth, warning that approximately 20,000 children die by suicide every year as a consequence, and demanded that the government address the crisis urgently. <\/p>\n<p>Raising the matter during Zero Hour in the Upper House, O&#8217;Brien said studies indicate that children and youth are spending up to eight hours a day on screens and mobile phones &#8212; amounting to more than 100 days every year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trinamool Congress MP Derek O&#8217;Brien on Friday raised in the Rajya Sabha the issue of growing digital addiction among children and youth, warning that approximately 20,000 children die by suicide every year as a consequence, and demanded that the government address the crisis urgently. Raising the matter during Zero Hour in the Upper House, O&#8217;Brien said studies indicate that children and youth are spending up to eight hours a day on screens and mobile phones &#8212; amounting to more than 100 days every year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}