Delhi government will soon launch a campaign to free children from begging. This initiative aims to provide a secure future for vulnerable ...

India achieved its highest adoption numbers in over a decade during FY26. A total of 5,022 children found permanent families, marking a sig...

Parliament will consider and pass the Supreme Court (Number of Judges) Amendment Bill. Opposition MPs will move a statutory resolution seek...

The Supreme Court has asked election officials to address issues surrounding voter data transparency. A PIL points out the challenges of ha...

A preliminary inquiry by the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) into allegations of assault at a Christian worship centre in Pathanamthitta has ...

Union minister Smriti Irani on Sunday said the Childline will be handed over to states so that the distress call gets connected to local po...

The biological parents and adoptive parents of the child had filed a petition before a trial court to declare the latter as the adoptive pa...

These children who have lost family support due to COVID-19 or have been abandoned due to the loss of parents to the disease are in need of...

The amendments intend to empower district magistrates and additional district magistrates to authorise orders of adoption and propose that ...

According to amendments cleared by the Cabinet last month, before becoming a member of the child welfare committee, background and educatio...

As many as 58 cases are under investigation based on the FIR filed by the state child welfare committee.

Until now, the country's adoption agency Child Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) would place siblings with the same family except in rare ...

In its order the bench has asked the Baselisahi police station to submit within 15 days case records, police records and social background ...

Other key measures for street children include health insurance, bank accounts and financial sponsorship for families to help meet medical ...

Justices Madan B Lokur and N V Ramana listed out 16 points like setting up of Juvenile Justice Boards and Child Welfare Homes in every dist...

In the biggest move to investigate suspected child trafficking, the police rescued 190 children, including 30 infants, from beggars in the ...

The court also said as per available records, the issue raised by the NGO appears to be genuine and it cannot be ignored due to the serious...