"This scheme will enable the celebration of the girl child from the time of her birth," she said. The 'Sumangla Kanya' scheme has been designed in a way that parents will have to take care of girl child's health and education to avail its benefits.
Girls from underprivileged backgrounds stepped into the roles of ambassadors and high commissioners of 20 countries for a day on the occasion of 'International Day of the Girl Child' to spread the message of equality and freedom.
Patel said it would be the responsibility of the staff concerned to ensure that these children get nutritious food, medicines and proper education. All the children are from an area near the Raj Bhawan and this will make their monitoring easy.
The Delhi High Court has upheld the 10-year jail term of a man for raping and sodomising a four-year-old girl known to him, observing that perpetrators of sexual offences on innocent children are "psychosocial deviants" who do not deserve any leniency.
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The judgment brings the focus on this crucial shortcoming in our society that has been accentuated both by societal mindsets as well as State apathy.
Some even digged Sunny Leone's past when she shared the picture of the child on her Facebook.
Sunny Leone and husband are being lauded by many from film fraternity for breaking the stereotypes.
Aamir Khan has always been known to support girl child campaign in “Satyamev Jayate” or even his recent blockbuster “Dangal”, which highlighted the love and bonding between a father and his daughters. Now, the superstar
In a disgraceful case of gender discrimination, a pregnant woman in Andhra Pradesh’s Nellore district was allegedly attacked with acid by her in-laws after an astrologer reportedly told her mother-in-law that the woman was carrying a girl.
Chandigarh: Bollywood actress Parineeti Chopra has been roped as the brand ambassador for the 'Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao' campaign by the Haryana government to promote the cause of the girl child.Parineeti was chosen for the
New Delhi: In a country where incidents of female foeticide, child marriage and widening sex-ratio are everyday flooding the newspapers, here comes a ray of sunshine.A village in southern Rajasthan's Rajsamand district celebrates the birth
India's child sex-ratio (below six years) is now the worst in 70 years, possibly the worst ever. The latest decline was from 927 (girls per 1,000 boys) in 2001 to 918 in 2011.The child sex-ratio,
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday spoke about a number of social issues in his monthly radio address but chose to avoid any reference to the political storm that has been generated by
Madurai: Upset on coming to know her fifth child also was a girl, a woman abandoned the infant at Tirumangalam Government hospital after cutting its umblical cord around midnight, but came back again today to
New Delhi: To help channelise small savings, government has launched a special deposit scheme for girl child -- Sukanya Samriddhi Account-- which can be opened in banks and post offices and half of the funds
New Delhi: Indian parents' fear of their inability to find a suitable groom for their daughters along with the societal pressure to pay huge sum of dowry adds to the feeling of the girl child
New Delhi: Public sector general insurer, New India Assurance, has launched an exclusive health insurance cover, New India Asha Kiran, for a family with girl children. The family floater health insurance, gives a 50 per cent
New Delhi, Oct 9 : In an alarming trend, girl child numbers in India have shown a sharper decline than the male children in the decade beginning 2001, leading to a skewed child sex ratio.Ahead
Jodhpur, Jul 7: Body of a newborn girl, surrounded by dogs who were trying to feast on it, was today found in a garbage dump behind the Umaid Hospital here. Police found the body inside
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