child welfare

Hyderabad, April 10 A 13-year-old girl was "sexually assaulted" by a minor boy, police said on Friday.According to the police statement, the boy, who had befriended the girl on social media, sexually assaulted her shortly after.Based on the girl's statement, a case was registered at the...

Palghar, April 10 A 13-year-old girl from the Palghar district of Maharashtra ran away from home, believing her mother favored her sibling, and was later located by police, an official said on Friday.The incident occurred within the jurisdiction of the Safale police station on Thursday. The...

April 9, Kohima: A one-day orientation and training program on the Adoption Regulations, 2022, for Nagaland was held in Kohima today.The program was organized by the State Adoption Resource Authority (SARA), Mission Vatsalya, Department of Social Welfare, Nagaland, and sponsored by the Central...

New Delhi, April 9 Union Women and Child Development Minister Annapurna Devi said on Thursday that the Poshan Abhiyaan should become a "people's movement" and stressed the need to reduce children's screen time and improve nutrition in the first six years of life.Launching the eighth edition of...

Bulandshahr (UP), April 8 A three-year-old girl died, allegedly after being beaten by her stepmother, in the Bulandshahr district, police said on Wednesday.The incident took place in Surjawali village, under the Pahasu police station area. According to police, information about the child's...

New Delhi, April 7 – The Delhi Police have successfully traced 34 missing persons, including several minors, during a five-day special operation titled 'Mission Safe Return,' conducted by the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU) of the Outer District.Given the sensitive nature of the cases, most...

London/Dhaka, April 3 – As conditions worsen in Bangladesh's overcrowded refugee camps, thousands of Rohingya refugees are struggling to survive due to cuts in food aid, raising concerns about a rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation, a report highlighted.According to a report in...

Indore, April 2 – A young girl, approximately three to five years old, miraculously survived, but suffered severe injuries when a car ran over her in Shanti Niketan, a prestigious residential area located behind the Bombay Hospital in Indore, Madhya Pradesh.According to police, the incident...

Ramban, April 1: The District Task Force, led by Assistant Labour Commissioner Amit Kumar, conducted a campaign against child labour in Ramban Town.Nine children who were forced into labour were rescued, brought before the Child Welfare Committee of Ramban, and later reunited with their...

Mumbai, April 2 A 34-year-old man, working as a security guard, is alleged to have poisoned his three minor children before committing suicide in Solapur district, Maharashtra, police said on Thursday.The incident took place on Wednesday afternoon in Tirhe village in the district. The children...

New Delhi, April 1 The national capital has become a "market" for child trafficking, the Delhi High Court said on Wednesday, and asked the railways and the police to respond to a petition raising concerns about such incidents blatantly occurring at railway stations and surrounding areas.A...

New Delhi, April 1 A new analysis of data collected as part of India's longitudinal survey of older adults reveals a 12 per cent higher risk of depression when adult children are unemployed.Findings published in the journal Social Science and Medicine also show that the link between older...

Berhampur/Bhubaneswar (Odisha), March 31 A 17-year-old girl who had fled sexual abuse by her stepfather in Andhra Pradesh was allegedly drugged and raped by two individuals in Odisha, police said on Tuesday.The Odisha Police arrested two individuals and took a boy into custody in connection...

Palghar, March 31 An autorickshaw driver brutally assaulted a four-year-old boy by lifting him by his legs and slamming him to the ground before smashing his head on an iron rod following an argument with the minor's father in Maharashtra's Palghar district, police said on Tuesday.The incident...

New Delhi, March 30 A 32-year-old woman was allegedly killed after her husband attacked her with a small LPG cylinder during a domestic dispute in southeast Delhi's Pul Prahladpur area, police said on Monday.The victim has been identified as Poonam, while the accused, Suresh Kumar, has been...

Kishtwar, March 30, 2026: The District Child Protection Unit (DCPU), Kishtwar, conducted a workshop on child rights and the role of the Child Helpline 1098 at PAALASH, a government-run Boys Child Care Institution (CCI).The Chairperson of the Child Welfare Committee, Sheetal Nain Sharma...

New Delhi, March 30 A 32-year-old woman was allegedly killed after her husband attacked her with a small LPG cylinder during a domestic dispute in the southeast Delhi area of Pul Prahladpur, police said on Monday.The victim has been identified as Poonam, while the accused, Suresh Kumar, has...

Mathura (UP), March 29 A woman narrowly escaped an explosion of a gas cylinder in her house in the Bhogaon village, under the Chhata area here, on Sunday morning, police said.The explosion damaged the structure, although no casualties were reported, they added.Manoj, a local and a relative...

Guna, March 27 – An Anganwadi center, which had been operating for several years in an old and dilapidated building in a remote village of the Guna district of Madhya Pradesh, has now been moved to a new structure, ensuring the safety of the children enrolled at the facility.This much-needed...

A review meeting on activities conducted under the Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan (NMBA) was held in Ampati, chaired by Raymond D. Shira, Project Director, DRDA, Government of Meghalaya. The meeting assessed ongoing efforts to combat drug abuse and reviewed various welfare schemes being implemented...