11th march 2021 On March 11, 2021, a 14 year old boy, after getting thirsty, entered the premises of the Dasna Devi temple Ghaziabad to drink water from the tap there. When he went inside…
Education as Empowerment Tool for Children of Sex…
"May I come in, Miss?" asks seven-year-old Ajmiri Khatun, her face beaming with her radiant smile. Her teacher, Pujo Roy, gladly welcomes her into the eight-square-foot educational facility designed for Indian children like her. "Thank…
Out of School children among Muslims are highest
NEW DELHI: AS the government works to improve quality of education and learning outcomes at school, it can draw some comfort from the dwindling number of out-of-school children. A Educational Consultants of India/HRD ministry-sponsored survey…
One third of world's undernourished children lives in…
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's rapid economic growth has failed to cut alarmingly high malnutrition rates, leaving it "two generations" behind China, a leading expert said on Wednesday. India is home to one-third of the…
21 % of under-five deaths are in India
[caption id="attachment_5993" align="alignleft"]A women begging for cremation funds for her child[/caption]NEW DELHI: First the good news — 10,000 fewer children are now dying every day before reaching their fifth birthday compared to 1990. The bad…
India's generation of children crippled by uranium waste
Observer investigation uncovers link between dramatic rise in birth defects in Punjab and pollution from coal-fired power stations. Their heads are too large or too small, their limbs too short or too bent. For some,…
Actress arrested for burning her 10 year old…
New Delhi - Indian police Saturday arrested a television actress in Mumbai for allegedly beating and injuring her 10-year-old maid, news reports said. Urvashi Dhanorkar was accused of brutally assaulting Rameshwari, locking up the child…
Demand for redefining age of child' labourer
PUNE: On the occasion of the Anti-Child Labour Day,' which is observed in India on April 30, a section of the non-government organisations here demanded revoking of a new government resolution (GR), which confined the…
No form of corporal punishment will be tolerated:…
CHENNAI: The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) will soon write to Collectors across the country, instructing them to hold meetings with all school heads and convey that no form of corporal punishment…