{"id":999853,"date":"2026-03-28T09:30:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T04:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999853"},"modified":"2026-03-28T11:12:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T05:42:21","slug":"digital-addiction-claims-20000-childrens-lives-a-year-says-trinamool-congress-mp-derek-obrien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/28\/digital-addiction-claims-20000-childrens-lives-a-year-says-trinamool-congress-mp-derek-obrien\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital addiction claims 20,000 children&#8217;s lives a year, says Trinamool Congress MP Derek O&#8217;Brien"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress MP Derek O&#8217;Brien on Friday raised concerns in the Rajya Sabha over 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. He noted that 68 countries have already banned mobile phones in schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress MP Derek O&#8217;Brien on Friday raised concerns in the Rajya Sabha over 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. He noted that 68 countries have already banned mobile phones in schools.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999853","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=999853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}