Saturday 23 September '06
The National Commission for Woman (NCW) was today shocked to hear the tale of a ‘powerful’ man who sexually exploited his college-going daughter for years and then wreaked vengeance against her husband’s family in a UP townFriday 8 September '06
Eleven undertrials who were sent to mental asylums across Punjab and Haryana after being arrested for various offences...Saturday
2 September '06The Union Law Ministry is expected to run into opposition from within the government and outside over its plan of introducing a marriage registration bill that applies only to Hindus...Friday
1 September '06Nearly a decade after the Supreme Court took a strong view of the hunger deaths and rampant malnutrition among the tribals of Kalahandi and surrounding areasSaturday
26 August '06Some 3,652 men and women, who qualify to be called the India’s longest-held inmates of mental asylums, would soon walk free as the government is considering a proposal to shift them to community centres.Wednesday
23 August '06The National Commission for Women has come across shocking cases of human greed where families let expectant mothers to die in childbirth than take them to hospital so that they get Rs 50,000 as compensation.Sunday
13 August '06A Child, in most parts of the world, is a person below 18 years of age, but as per Indian laws, he or she could be below 10, 14, 15, 16 or even 18 years of age.Friday
4 August '06The National Commission for Women recieved a high-profile visitor on Thursday in Maria Shriver...Wednesday
2 August '06The alleged rape of a minor that triggered communal tension in Alwar last month is likely to be re-investigated by the police on the directions of the National Commission for Women...Tuesday
1 August '06If the National Human Rights Commission has its way, a politician or a bureaucrat will face the music the next time a starvation death is reported.Friday
21 July '06Union Minister for Tribal Affairs P R Kyndiah has called for a review of the Salwa Judum — the tribal-oriented campaign against Naxalites in Chhattisgarh — as it was ‘‘turning into a fratricidal war’’.Wednesday
19 July '06Shaken by Monday’s gruesome killing of 28 tribals in a fierce attack by Maoists on a refugee camp in the South Bastar region of ChhattisgarhTuesday
11 July '06The stage is set for the child beggars to be adopted legally. This will happen once Parliament considers...Wednesday
21 June '06Lieutenant Sushmita Chakarborty’s suicide at Udhampur takes me back to this quaint town where my friend Lieutenant Colonel SSS — I prefer the acronym for obvious reasons — had ended his life 10 years ago.Friday
9 June '06Peoples Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti has supported the fuel price hike saying it was inevitable considering the global trends.Wednesday
7 June '06The UPA is faced with the problem of plenty as far as choosing a Christian member of the National Minorities Commission is concerned.Saturday
3 June '06The Health Ministry’s national mission against the illegal practice of killing of female fetuses...Thursday
1 June '06“Reservation is no answer. Give all disadvantaged students all incentives to have a good education till Std XII. Later, everyone must come through open competition.”Thursday
25 May '06In the wake of different tribal communities from across the country approaching the concerned authorities for getting the scheduled tribes statusSaturday
20 May '06Four years after the Gujarat riots, the Narendra Modi government would have to explain why it is going slow on rehabilitation of riot-victims...Tuesday
16 May '06Prez suggests analysis of Kerala, Himachal success to eradicate corruptionTuesday
9 May '06Exactly a year after the UPA government had fired three members of the National Commission for Women appointed by the NDA regime, experts have recommended that the Centre’s powers to sack members of the apex women’s body be curbed.Friday
5 May '06Before the government moves amendments the Immoral Trafficking (Prevention) Act, 1956, in the next session of Parliament, the National Commission for Women (NCW) has sought a review, saying these might affect the interests of sex workers.Tuesday
2 May '06Jammu and Kashmir legislator and Panthers Party chief Bhim Singh, whose name had figured in the Volcker report on Iraq’s food-for-oil scamFriday
28 April '06Top Uttar Pradesh bureaucrats failed to offer a plausible explanation to the National Commission for Scheduled Castes ...
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