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...

SC has directed States & UTs to take strict actions against any body or individual indulging in illegal adoption of children orphaned durin...

The commission further said that the state-wise data received regarding children who have lost either their mother or father or both parent...

The National Commission of Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) said West Bengal and Delhi have not been cooperating and have not provided la...

The gender break-up of the data, shared by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights as part of its affidavit in the Supreme C...

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...

"It is often debated how children orphaned after losing their parents to COVID-19 should be taken care of. This issue is discussed in Mahar...

These children who have lost family support due to COVID-19 or have been abandoned due to the loss of parents to the disease are in need of...