Vice Chancellor Singh said, "The initiative will help thousands of children every year. We are coming out of Covid. Many children lost thei...

Vanisha Pathak, the Bhopal topper who wrote a poem ‘I’ll stand tall without you, Papa,’ after scoring 99.8% in her Class X board within mon...

COVID-19 pandemic has caused hundreds of school and college going students to become orphans in the coal region, which falls under the oper...

"Sadly, as high as our estimates of orphanhood and caregiver deaths are, they are likely to be underestimates, and we expect these numbers ...

What the court can do is order an audit of the compensation payouts focusing on recipients, so that the poor are not discriminated against.

Medical complications induced by the virus would go in the medical certificate as the official cause of death simply because there was no C...

The Supreme Court suggested on Tuesday that the PM-Cares for Children scheme be extended to all children in the country who have been orpha...

A bench comprising Justices L Nageswara Rao and Aniruddha Bose directed the the District Magistartes to issue necessary instructions to the...

In an affidavit filed on behalf of Ministry of Woman and Child Development on a PIL raising concerns over the children orphaned due to COVI...

Of 30,071 such children, 26,176 children lost a parent, 3,621 were orphaned and 274 abandoned. The data is for period between April 1, 2020...

At present, there are 162 children in Maharashtra who have lost both parents, at least one of them to the pandemic. Nine such kids are in g...

The move by the UP government comes a day after the Supreme Court observed that it cannot even imagine how many children in this large coun...

"Sixteen children have been identified who lost their parents during the second wave. We have been enquiring about them whether they requir...

The top court asked state governments to understand the agony of children starving on the streets and directed the district authorities tha...

The Centre said it will give high priority to combating of crime against women, children, senior citizens and Scheduled Castes and Schedule...

The Centre has asked states and UTs to "immediately review" existing facilities for such groups, especially for children who have been orph...

Woman and Child Welfare Minister Shashikala Jolle said the government has set up a helpline '1098' and a senior IAS officer Mohan Raj has b...