'I noticed a nine-year-old child hugging another child every few minutes.''The two were sisters and were playing in their village when an armed gang attacked their village and set fire to it.''They......
A total of 1,77,335 cases of crime against children were registered in the country in 2023, showing an increase of 9.2 percent over 2022, according to the latest NCRB report. Illustaration:......
Doubting the correctness of its 2014 verdict that kept minority schools out of the RTE Act's ambit, the Supreme Court on Monday referred the matter to a larger bench for adjudication. IMAGE: A......
Taking a stern view of inter-state child trafficking rackets in the country, the Supreme Court on Monday cancelled the bail granted to 13 accused and said the "cry of the collective for justice,......
'That is why an emotional appeal to the President.''There needs to be a strict law. The accused should be punished immediately.''All cases should be heard in fast-track courts.''In rural areas,......
A bill currently in the Indian Parliament on child labour totally will be a "test" of the new government on how they take the issues of the most exploited children in their political priority, says......
The proposed changes to the child labour law to allow children and adolescents to work for their families would be most retrograde and regressive, say Shinzani Jain and Paranjoy Guha Thakurta.......
'This kind of content will destroy our culture.' IMAGE: Bipasha Basu in Jism, the film that provoked Uday Mahurkar into moving the Supreme Court over vulgar content. The Supreme Court of India on......
'The entire shoot paused after that.''There was a heaviness on set -- a shared recognition of the horror we were portraying.' IMAGE: Abhishek Banerjee, Mia Maelzar and Shubham Vardhan in Stolen.......
'Mrs shows a dark side to the son and the father. I had to do things that I wouldn't dare to do in real life.' IMAGE: Sanya Malhotra and Kanwaljit Singh in Mrs. Kanwaljit Singh, 73, had as many as......
'I'm talking about that predator in your house, and how one should protect one's children from him.' IMAGE: Geetika Tyagi in Yes Papa. Sexual abuse of children by family members is rarely......
''I received many threatening calls and letters.''A fatwa was issued against me.' IMAGE: A young Salma Agha. Photograph: Kind courtesy Salma Agha/Instagram She became a household name in 1982,......
'I think that when a woman becomes a mother, everyone treats it like it's the end of her life first of all. Forget the end of her career.' 'They treat it like, now she's just going to have one or......