missing children

New Delhi, March 27 The Delhi government will launch a city-wide mapping exercise in April to identify vulnerable children, connect them with welfare schemes, and raise awareness about the child helpline number 1098.The Department of Women and Child Development (WCD), in collaboration with...

Mumbai, March 25 Over the past 13 years, more than 91,000 missing girls have been traced and reunited with their families in Maharashtra, highlighting improvements in tracking mechanisms and enforcement, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis told the legislative assembly on Wednesday.Nearly 60 per...

Washington, March 24. President Donald Trump praised FBI Director Kash Patel, an Indian-American, at a roundtable on the Memphis Safe Task Force, where Patel said the operation had helped law enforcement arrest violent offenders at “record historic levels”.At the event in Memphis, Trump...

Washington, March 24 – President Donald Trump traveled to Memphis to celebrate a reported sharp drop in violent crime, and used the opportunity to argue that aggressive federal intervention can restore order in troubled American cities.At a roundtable on Monday, Trump presented the city as a...

Mumbai, March 19 Maharashtra Navnirman Sena president Raj Thackeray said on Thursday that India should have supported Iran when it was attacked by the US and Israel, but there was no protest from Prime Minister Narendra Modi on this, which "will definitely hurt us in the future".Addressing his...

Jaipur, March 16 A day after a 15-year-old and his younger brother went missing in the Alwar district of Rajasthan, their bodies were found in a water-filled pit, with police suspecting they drowned.The incident occurred in Rasoolpur village, when the two brothers –Manisha (15) and Sandeep...

Mumbai, March 13 The railway police has traced 305 missing children in the last month under Operation Muskan and reunited 247 of them with their families, an official said on Friday.The initiative to locate and reunite missing and vulnerable children found travelling or living alone on railway...

Chaibasa (Jharkhand), March 12 A boy from Jharkhand, who ended up in Kerala after boarding the wrong train, was reunited with his family after 13 years, police said.Raja Gope, now 19, plays for a football club in Kerala and speaks only Malayalam and Hindi, while he has forgotten his native...

Panaji, March 11 The Goa government has blocked 512 escort service websites and intensified action against illegal online activities that damage the state's image, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant told the assembly on Wednesday.Responding to a calling attention motion moved by Leader of Opposition...

Gandhinagar, March 9 – The Gujarat government on Monday informed the state Assembly that 196 out of 198 children reported missing in the Junagadh and Gir Somnath districts over the past two years have been traced.Responding to a question on missing children and women, Minister of State for Law...

New Delhi, March 3: In a major humanitarian initiative under 'Operation Milap,' the South-West District Police successfully traced and reunited 118 missing persons, including 31 missing or kidnapped children and 87 adults, with their families between February 1 and February 28, the Delhi Police...

Bengaluru, February 26 – Karnataka Home Minister G. Parameshwara stated on Thursday that the state government had launched a special drive to identify illegal immigrants, particularly those who have overstayed their visas or are living without valid documentation, amid claims by the opposition...

Bengaluru, February 26 Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara distanced himself from slogans raised by his supporters in Tumakuru, which promoted him as the next Chief Minister, and asserted that he would not fuel speculation or lobby for the post, as any decision rests with the party high...

Patna, February 25 Of the 14,699 children reported missing in Bihar last year, 7,772 have been located, while efforts are ongoing to locate the remaining ones, officials said.The state police announced these figures after multiple instances of misleading information related to alleged...

Dahod (Gujarat), February 24 Two young siblings were found dead in an open well in a village in the Dahod district of Gujarat, police said on Tuesday.Ronak (5) and his three-year-old sister, Aradhana (3), had been missing since Monday evening, and their family had been searching for them in...

Mumbai, February 24 – The Maharashtra government informed the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday that a total of 45,662 women were reported missing in 2024, of whom 30,877 have been traced. In 2025, 48,278 women were reported missing, with 36,581 found so far.In addition, a total of 11,313 minor...

Mumbai, February 21 The Mumbai police achieved a 99% success rate in tracing missing children in the city last year, officials said on Saturday.In 2025, the city police solved 2,165 out of the 2,182 cases of missing minors, reuniting the traced children with their families, they said.So far...

New Delhi, February 18 The Delhi High Court on Wednesday reprimanded the Delhi government for "attempting to justify" the delay of over two and a half years in appointing the chairperson and members in the Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR) and said the matter would be...

Dehradun, February 11 Uttarakhand Congress president Ganesh Godiyal on Wednesday demanded an investigation into whether the state's high rate of missing children, particularly girls, is linked to the provisions regarding live-in relationships under the Uniform Civil Code (UCC).Citing data from...

New Delhi, February 11 The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought the response of the Centre, the city government, and the police on a public interest litigation (PIL) expressing concern over the "increase" in the number of missing persons in the capital.A bench of Chief Justice D K Upadhyaya...