New Aadhaar card rules 2026: UIDAI expands document list for enrolment; simplifies rules for children; sets Aadhaar validity period for OCI, LTV, foreignersThe Unique Identification Authority of India has updated Aadhaar enrolment and correction rules. New regulations expand accepted documents ...
13 May, 2026, 10.13 AM IST
Nora Fatehi apologises before NCW over 'Sarke Chunar' row, vows support for orphan girlsNora Fatehi appeared before the National Commission for Women regarding the song 'Sarke Chunar', offering an apology and stating no intenti...
07 May, 2026, 04.42 PM IST
Supreme Court orders states to survey orphaned kids denied educationThe Supreme Court has ordered states to survey orphaned children. These children were denied education under the Right to Education Act. Th...
06 Aug, 2025, 03.21 PM IST
DU to reserve PG seats for single girl child from 2025 in gender equity pushDelhi University will extend its single girl child quota to postgraduate courses from the 2025-26 academic session, reserving one supernume...
12 Jun, 2025, 06.17 PM IST
Explore possibilities of extending benefits of COVID-19 schemes to all orphan children: SC to CentreThe Supreme Court of India has asked the Centre to consider extending the benefits of schemes, including the PM Cares fund, to all orphaned...
16 Sep, 2023, 03.15 PM IST
HC irked with Maha govt's persistent stand over no quota benefits for abandoned kidsAfter being slammed by the court, the government had agreed to provide "orphan" certificates to the two girls so that they could seek reser...
17 Mar, 2023, 12.44 PM IST
Thousands of orphans will get opportunity to study at DU free of cost: VCVice Chancellor Singh said, "The initiative will help thousands of children every year. We are coming out of Covid. Many children lost thei...
04 Feb, 2023, 07.24 PM IST
Work on UP residential school in full swingThe Uttar Pradesh government is expediting work on the establishment of special residential schools for children of construction workers an...
02 Nov, 2022, 11.37 PM IST
CCL to provide scholarship to students who lost parents due to COVID-19COVID-19 pandemic has caused hundreds of school and college going students to become orphans in the coal region, which falls under the oper...
23 Mar, 2022, 10.28 AM IST
Identification of orphans due to COVID does not brook any further delay: SCA bench comprising Justices L Nageswara Rao and Aniruddha Bose directed the the District Magistartes to issue necessary instructions to the...
27 Jul, 2021, 04.37 PM IST
30,000 children orphaned, lost a parent or abandoned in over a year: NCPCR to SCOf 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...
09 Jun, 2021, 07.39 AM IST
Bihar CM Nitish Kumar announces solatium for kids orphaned due to COVID-19"Boys and girls who have lost their mothers and fathers -- with at least one parent succumbing to corona -- will get a sum of Rs 1,500 ever...
30 May, 2021, 04.53 PM IST
UP govt launches welfare scheme for children who lost parents to COVID-19The 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...
30 May, 2021, 08.39 AM IST
32 kids orphaned in Covid pandemic in Delhi: Child rights panel chief"Sixteen children have been identified who lost their parents during the second wave. We have been enquiring about them whether they requir...
30 May, 2021, 07.52 AM IST
Obama family matriarch passes away in a Kenyan hospital at 99Sarah Obama, the matriarch of former US President Barack Obama's Kenyan family has died, relatives and officials confirmed Monday but did n...
29 Mar, 2021, 09.05 PM IST
Green Passage scheme to provide free of cost education for orphan students in OdishaAs per the scheme, orphan students pursuing higher education from Plus-II level to post-graduation level, will no longer have to bear the e...
17 May, 2016, 04.22 PM IST
US First Lady dances with kids, underlines need for educationUS First Lady Michelle Obama on Saturday interacted with street children and orphans at the library of Mumbai University and danced with th...
06 Nov, 2010, 10.23 PM IST