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Govt comes out with SOP for child helpline 1098The Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD) said the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) will provide necessary tech...
Smriti Irani asks Meta to sync with child helpline for quick response during emergencySpeaking at Digital Surakhsa Summit, Irani expressed concern over videos being made in unsafe circumstances by social media users and asked...
Child Helpline 1098 to remain in operation: WCD ministryThe Ministry of Women and Child Development has clarified that distress calls landing on Child Helpline 1098 will soon also connect the cal...
Govt integrating emergency helplines for children, womenThe Emergency Response Support System (ERSS) - 112 - is a pan-India number for providing emergency support such as police, fire and ambulan...
Government asks private TV news channels to display four new Covid helpline numbersIn a letter to all private TV news channels, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting said the national helpline numbers should be run ...
High Court asks Delhi government to publicise COVID-19 helplines in newspapers on daily basisIt added that helpline numbers don't register in people's mind immediately and they might forget so they should be publicised daily so that...
Karnataka to take care of children orphaned due to COVID second waveWoman and Child Welfare Minister Shashikala Jolle said the government has set up a helpline '1098' and a senior IAS officer Mohan Raj has b...
Covid leaves orphaned children vulnerable to trafficking; authorities wary"Over the last week especially, contact details and addresses of children orphaned by Covid have been shared widely across social media. Th...
86 lakh or 40% of total calls received by CHILDLINE since 2018 were 'silent calls'In a "silent call" the receiver can hear background noise, but the caller, who remains on the line, does not speak, the official, who is wi...
Kerala government launches WhatsApp number to report domestic violence during lockdownThe 24-hour helpline has been started by the Directorate of Women and Child Development with the help of the technical cell of the National...
Govt helpline receives 92,000 calls on abuse and violence in 11 daysAccording to Walia, the number of calls after the lockdown, which started after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's speech on March 24, has incr...
Centre notifies new POCSO rules making law for sexual offences against children more stringentSome of the significant additions in the new rules include provision of mandatory police verification of staff in schools and care homes, p...
Government child helpline appears in pornographic content search results, lewd calls receivedThe National Commission for Protection of Child Rights officer said an alternative number has been launched, even as the commission tries t...
1.36 crore 'silent' calls received by child helpline in 3 yearsSilent callers are likely to be children or even adults who may call back again and can indicate a troubled child or one in distress.
Ministries come together to curb child trafficking at railway stationsThe railway and the women and child welfare development ministries have joined forces in a bid to rescue abducted and lost children and put...
Maneka Gandhi's mantra: Tap the trains to track runaway childrenManeka Gandhi said travelling ticket examiners have to be more vigilant as these children leave homes and take trains to reach major cities.
3 new child helpline centres to cover 500 towns, cities: Maneka GandhiChildline, the 24-hour helpline started in 1996 and based in Mumbai, currently reaches out to 282 locations across India with the help of 5...