He was a mechanical engineer with a cushy job in Delhi when one da y, after work, he saw a nine-year-old drug addict begging on a street in a place called Rohini. So moved was Ashish Sharma, now 29, t...

Mothers of 130-odd students of classes I and II were given lessons on child safety, rights and trafficking at a city school on Friday.The students, too, attended the workshop at Young Horizons School,...

With folded hands, 11-year-old Raman (name changed) said he had not eaten for three days and appealed to authorities to provide at least drinking water, if not food, to him and his three younger sibli...

Staying at home during a highly contagious global pandemic can save a number of lives. But what about the lives that such confinement will inevitably endanger? This has been a growing concern ever sin...

Twice in less than a year, the federal government has lost track of nearly 1,500 migrant children after placing them in the homes of sponsors across the country, federal officials have acknowledged.Th...

Jharkhand will be building a shelter home for orphans above 18 years to fulfil a provision in the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act- 2015.Named Place of Stay, the shelter will be ...

Thirty slum children in Tiljala are using rainwater to do their washing in the monsoon, reusing laundry water in toilets and encouraging others in the neighbourhood to save water. The children, all f...

Gousia Bashir, 17, sobbed that she had been orphaned for a second time.Her 14-year-old brother, who had dropped out of school to become the family’s breadwinner, was arrested under the draconian Pub...

The Union government has proposed to set up a total of 1,023 fast-track special courts for expeditious trial of over 1.66 lakh pending cases of crime against women and children across the country.Each...

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