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India launches pilot project for skills training of girls to boost their presence in labour forceIndia launches door-to-door mobilisation drive to train 3,800 adolescent girls in 27 districts across 19 states in skills like IT and hospi...31 Dec, 2024, 12.26 AM IST- Prime Minister Narendra Modi to hold virtual G20 Leaders' Summit todayIndia will host a virtual G20 Leaders' Summit on Wednesday to address key issues and review developments since the New Delhi G20 Summit in ...22 Nov, 2023, 07.25 AM IST
- Over 400% rise in cyber crime cases committed against children in 2020: NCRB dataIn 2019, 164 cases of cyber crimes against children were reported while in 2018, 117 cases of cyber crimes were committed against children ...14 Nov, 2021, 01.35 PM IST
- Taking all steps to safeguard interest of children affected by pandemic, Centre tells Delhi HCIn an affidavit filed on behalf of Ministry of Woman and Child Development on a PIL raising concerns over the children orphaned due to COVI...19 Jul, 2021, 04.52 PM IST
- Dedicated officials in Indian embassies to monitor safety of children adopted abroadAt present, the Central Adoption Resource Authority works with foreigners’ regional registration office to process over 400 prospective for...18 Feb, 2021, 02.25 AM IST
- Budget 2020: The need for gender budgetingAs education and health outcomes improve, women's barriers to entry in joining the workforce would reduce. This would reverse the worrying ...31 Jan, 2020, 11.12 AM IST
- Sexual abuse at shelter homes: Existing mechanism not adequate to deal with problem, says SCThe bench was dealing with the matter in which 34 girls were allegedly raped and sexually abused in a shelter home run by an NGO at Muzaffa...04 Oct, 2018, 04.49 PM IST
- Facial recognition system helps trace 3,000 missing children in 4 daysThe Delhi Police used the FRS software to track down the missing; the High Court had recently pulled up the Centre over the non-sharing of ...22 Apr, 2018, 08.00 PM IST
- Use technology for welfare of children: Supreme CourtThe apex court also said that the Centre and states needed to look into this aspect and provide necessary software and hardware to JJBs and...14 Feb, 2018, 02.47 PM IST
- Maharashtra government bans junk food in school canteens, cites obesity fearsCBSE also suggested that a school canteen management committee (SCMC) should take charge of menu preparation. It wants 7-10 panel members t...09 May, 2017, 11.27 AM IST
- Maneka Gandhi to Gurmehar Kaur: Complain, you will get a responseManeka has written letters on women’s issues by asking them to tweet to her or post on the ministry’s FB account about gender equality meas...01 Mar, 2017, 05.27 PM IST
- Centre bats for new comprehensive law on human traffickingThe Centre told the SC that instead of amending certain provisions in existing statutes, there was a need for a comprehensive law to tackle...13 Oct, 2015, 09.32 PM IST
- Compliance to sexual harassment law poorResponse to the law against sexual harassment o women has been tepid if action taken by respective state governments and private entities i...18 Sep, 2015, 11.27 AM IST
- CSE backs Centre's recommendations to ban junk food in schoolsThe committee was asked to look into the issues related to growing problems of obesity in children and its relationship with consumption of...22 Aug, 2015, 07.16 PM IST
- UNICEF Rapid Survey on Children commissioned in November 2013: Women and Child Development MinistryThe key objective of the survey was to assess the situation of children and women in the country with special emphasis on access and utilis...10 Jul, 2015, 10.47 PM IST
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