How Roth IRA helps you leave tax-free money to your familyRoth IRA is a smart way to pass money to family with less tax. It allows tax-free growth and easy transfer to heirs. There are simple rules...
07 May, 2026, 12.26 AM IST
SC asks Centre to consider amending law on terminating pregnancy of rape survivorsThe Supreme Court strongly criticized AIIMS for challenging an order allowing a 15-year-old rape survivor to terminate her 30-week pregnanc...
30 Apr, 2026, 11.56 AM IST
Family pension denied to daughter over divorce timing; Tripura High Court ruling explainedA daughter has been denied her father's family pension by the Tripura High Court. She divorced her husband after her father's passing. The ...
26 Apr, 2026, 07.00 AM IST
'Dad should not even touch my body, I hope no one gets...': 23-year-old UP lawyer blames father in his WhatsApp suicide noteA young lawyer who allegedly jumped from the fifth floor of a court in Kanpur blamed his father for his extreme step and blamed him for atr...
25 Apr, 2026, 01.01 PM IST
Social Security for children: Who qualifies and how to claim benefitsSocial Security benefits can help children if a parent retires, becomes disabled, or dies. Rules depend on age, school status, and disabili...
06 Apr, 2026, 06.51 PM IST
Panel to examine medical grievances in adoption casesThe Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) has constituted a medical grievance committee to address recurring complaints about the heal...
05 Oct, 2025, 01.42 PM IST
Parents of two disabled children can adopt a third child: Bombay High CourtThe Bombay High Court has instructed authorities to re-evaluate a Mumbai couple's request to adopt a third child. The couple has two disabl...
14 Apr, 2025, 02.09 PM IST
Right to adopt child not fundamental right: Delhi High CourtThe court's decision came on a batch of petitions by several PAPs with two biological children who applied for adoption of a third child as...
20 Feb, 2024, 04.02 PM IST
Govt launches anganwadi protocol to track, help children with disabilitiesThe government has launched a national protocol to provide for training of anganwadi workers to track and help children with disabilities. ...
28 Nov, 2023, 03.42 PM IST
New rules speed up adoption process; tighter deadlines for child care institutionsTill the rules were notified, nearly 905 adoption orders were pending with courts but as on date the pendency has come down to 644, an offi...
06 Dec, 2022, 11.36 PM IST
COVID-19 pandemic severely affected education system: Dharmendra PradhanPradhan also said that under the inclusive education component of the 'Samagra Shiksha' scheme, financial assistance is provided to states ...
21 Mar, 2022, 04.40 PM IST
Dearth of special teachers who alone can impart education & training to CwSN: Supreme Court"As of today, there is a dearth of rehabilitation professionals or special teachers recognized and registered by the council, who alone can...
28 Oct, 2021, 07.20 PM IST
Centre must forthwith notify norms of teacher-pupil ratio for special schools: Supreme CourtThe 2019 recommendations said that number of special education teachers in a particular disability should be determined based on the genera...
28 Oct, 2021, 06.55 PM IST
Literature for children and young adults are just not the same anymoreTill the 1990s, literature for children and young adults -think JK Rowling or Amar Chitra Katha -was largely didactic, with generous doses ...
14 Nov, 2016, 11.49 AM IST
Government planning new inclusions under Disabilities Bill, mulls including dwarfismThese include proposal for admission of special children in govt-recognised educational institutions; specific learning disability to be in...
26 Jan, 2016, 05.28 AM IST
Children to be adopted through State governments: Mother Teresa orphanagesMother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity are running 18 orphanages across India for the past more than 50 years, which will soon be de-recog...
22 Oct, 2015, 02.40 PM IST
- Path from euphemism to outcast is a short one
Too many words should not be allowed to tread the short path from definition to euphemism to outlaw.
18 Dec, 2012, 06.28 AM IST