'We will ensure that every child is protected,' says Priyank Kanoongo, chairperson, NCPCR.
Mentally-challenged children find themselves ignored by India's education system.
Budding RTI activist from Chennai files request with ONGC. Instead of response, police comes asking about her.
'Life has been very stressful and frustrating.'
'The government is not doing anything for the people. They don't know that people foremost need jobs. Where there are no jobs available, you see the youth turning to crime,' says Chennai autorickshaw driver, singer and composer Parthasarathy.
'Amendments in the past have created fear. This will take it further.'
Three young Indians plan to cycle from Kochi in Kerala to Tokyo in time to attend the Olympics there next year.
The DMK has performed well in the general election and will get more seats than its rival, the AIADMK, in the by-elections. But this victory won' help them, reports A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com.
Did the transaction fail? Did you receive your money on time?
'There are 80 million tonnes of foodgrain in our godowns and yet, 200 million people go to bed hungry.' 'So I decided to fight hunger.'
'Kashmir is heaven on earth. I had to come back.'
'I am contesting elections to encourage and start a nationwide debate on the present nuclear policy.'
'Putting your life at stake defending your motherland is the best feeling you can get.'
Oviya swears she won't return to the Bigg Boss house, but in showbiz, anything can happen.
Are prisoners dying in Tamil Nadu jails due to lack of medical attention?
The costs involved in putting together a successful rally are bizarre.
An informal group of volunteers from the same school in Ahmednagar come together to pool resources, prepare food, serve the needy.
'The Tamil Nadu government should ask Andhra Pradesh to speed up the investigation.'
Neetu Chopra, who travelled solo across India on a scooter covering 7,600 km in 42 days, tells Rediff.com's A Ganesh Nadar why girls should not be scared to dream.
'He just said that those who cannot control the violence should go. He did not name the BJP.'
'The food the Sri Lankans gave us was horrible. It used to stink. We used to throw most of it away... In the night my legs used to be in someone's face and his legs used to be in my lap. There was no space... There was no toilet... Both our bathing water and drinking water were salty. We had to beg the guards for clean drinking water.' Rediff.com's A Ganesh Nadar speaks to Indian fishermen just released from Sri Lankan custody.
Legal hitches appear to have cropped up in the plans to set up two new reactors in the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project and a commercial agreement on it is unlikely to be signed at the Annual Summit between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Monday.
When over a hundred fishermen from Tamil Nadu were arrested by the Sri Lankan navy and their boats seized last month, fishermen in coastal Tamil Nadu went on strike. Rediff.com's A Ganesh Nadar visits the coastal towns of Nagapattinam and Rameswaram to discover that the fishermen do not have many choices.
By aligning with the BJP, even if they were arm-twisted into doing so, the AIADMK leadership has yielded their political space in the state to the aunt-nephew duo of Sasikala-Dinakaran, and the parliamentary election to the DMK-Congress combine, says A Ganesh Nadar.
One of the 16 fishermen who have been released from an Iranian jail speaks to A Ganesh Nadar about his ordeal.
'The copying mafia is very powerful. We need to use technology to fight them.'
Senthamarai, 65, and P Shanmugavel, 70, became an Internet sensation after beating back armed robbers.
It had all the makings of a movie thriller. Students who paid a few lakh rupees were supplied with vanishing ink. Answer papers were intercepted on the way and corrected. No one would have been wiser had the perpetrators of the exam scam not gotten greedy.
The OPS camp believes Sasikala's family still calls the shot in the EPS camp.
Cauvery matters to Chennai-ites, but not at the cost of cricket, or its home team, or its favourite captain, reports A Ganesh Nadar after watching Tuesday night's zinger of a game between CSK and KKR.
When the results for the Rae Bareli assembly seat came in on March 11, Aditi Singh (Congress) had won 128,319 votes, Mohammad Shabaz Khan of the BSP had won 39,156 votes and the BJP's Anit Srivastava had won 28,821 votes. It was a stunning victory for the US-educated rookie Congress candidate.
'With the deaths of Jayalalithaa and Karunanidhi, the BJP and Congress thought that they had a chance.' 'They have conceded that power is with the Dravidian parties.'
'With just 2.4 per cent of global landmass, India houses six to eight per cent of planetary biodiversity and hence is a prime target of wildlife criminals.'
President Kalam was loved by the youth of India. Something evidenced by the mass of student volunteers who have arrived in Rameswaram to mourn and to help out other mourners who have arrived in the island town to pay their last homage to India's 'Missile Man.'
'The government says it is trying to improve the institute, but its latest appointments say otherwise.'
'Elections, my friends, are a boon for the Indian people.' 'That is the only time our high and mighty leaders are accessible to the masses.' 'So don't ruin that by agreeing to once-in-5-years elections,' argues A Ganesh Nadar.
The 'Save Heart Initiative' has treated 8,000 patients through unique forms of medical consultation.
A report released by Human Rights Watch states that police regularly disregard arrest procedures and torture suspects in custody to death. The police often blame the deaths on suicide or illness.
'The RSS guides us, never dictates.'
'There is a mafia operating in that area that lends money to these labourers. Loans are paid off with red sandalwood. The actual smugglers don't need to come to the area.'
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