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Bihar CM Nitish Kumar has promised no one will be spared and action taken against the perpetrators of such exploitation of destitute children. (Photo: Youtube Screengrab)

Punish shelter home culprits

Anyone who has exploited these minor girls should be booked for rape.

10 Aug 2018 12:43 AM

In the Deoria and Muzaffarpur shelters, we see bureaucratic complicity and dereliction of duty at several levels. (Photo: Youtube Screengrab)

After Bihar-UP horrors, act fast, halt kids’ abuse

There are around 9,000 government-run childcare institutions and shelter homes for women/girls across India.

09 Aug 2018 6:01 AM

Union women and child development minister Maneka Gandhi

Maneka Gandhi suggests single, large facility

WCD minister asks states to build centre run by it, not NGOs.

07 Aug 2018 12:12 AM

Gandhi said the adoption and skill development programmes in a central facility would be much easier and it would also help in checking 'abuse and misuse' by NGOs who are running their own shelter homes with grants from the government. (Photo: ANI | Twitter)

Build single facility to prevent misuse by NGOs: Maneka to states on sexual abuse

Gandhi's suggestion came in the backdrop of the recent alleged sexual abuse of minor girls in Bihar's Muzzafarpur and UP's Deoria districts.

06 Aug 2018 5:47 PM

Maneka Gandhi said the purpose of the procedure was primarily to bring all the facts of the case, including the legal proceeding, make an overall assessment of the situation and suggest a parental plan in the best interests of the child. (Photo: PTI | File)

Option of signing Hague treaty on child abduction still open: Maneka Gandhi

Govt had been of view that treaty could lead to harassment of women escaping marital discord or domestic violence.

02 Aug 2018 8:47 AM

Maneka Gandhi, the Union Minister for Women and Child Development (Photo: ANI)

Maneka Gandhi apologises for ‘other ones’ quip

Says she was embarrassed by her own lack of knowledge.

31 Jul 2018 1:03 AM

Talking about the inclusion of information on prevention of human trafficking in school textbooks, Maneka Gandhi, on Thursday, called transgenders 'the other ones' in Lok Sabha. (Photo: File | ANI)

Maneka Gandhi apologises for calling transgenders ‘other ones’ in LS

Maneka Gandhi also announced that in future all official communication will use the term TGs for transgenders.

30 Jul 2018 9:30 PM

The minister, however, said that no property would be attached without giving notice.

Lok Sabha passes bill to take on human trafficking

Besides prevention, rescue and rehabilitation, the bill covers aggravated forms of trafficking such as forced labour, begging and marriage.

27 Jul 2018 2:45 AM

Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu (Photo: PTI)

Monkey menace hits Vice President’s residence

Naidu, who is the Chairman of the Upper House, said even the official residence of the Vice President of India is facing monkey menace.

25 Jul 2018 1:11 AM

Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi (Photo: PTI)

Illegal adoptions: Mother Teresa centres face scan

Gandhi had said the government would have to derecognise the organisation if it continued to defy the revised guidelines.

18 Jul 2018 6:41 AM

The government's instructions comes after the recent cases of alleged illegal adoptions were reported at the Missionaries of Charity shelter home in Jharkhand, wherein three children were rescued after being trafficked by three nuns of the missionaries. (Photo: AFP)

All child care homes run by MoC to be inspected after baby selling racket

Maneka Gandhi asked state govts to ensure that all child care institutions get registered and linked to CARA within a month.

17 Jul 2018 9:12 AM

Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi.

Maneka Gandhi urges city police to take action in assault of 2-year-old boy

Ms Gandhi expressed her displeasure at the slow pace of police investigation in the case.

13 Jul 2018 7:35 AM

Gandhi said that due to the provision, husbands and father-in-law are apprehensive to transfer assets to women in their families because they fear that income accruing from the asset will ultimately become a burden on them. (Photo: File | PTI)

Assets gifted to wives shouldn't be taxed, seeks changes in I-T Act: Maneka Gandhi

Provision to tax gifted assets was made under the assumption that wives, daughter-in-law would normally not have independent taxable income.

10 Jul 2018 4:05 PM

The convicts in the Nirbhaya case being taken to court (Photo: PTI)

Activists, kin hail Supreme Court order on Nirbhaya case

DCW chief Swati Maliwal to issue notice to Delhi police and Tihar jail authorities to expedite execution of the rapists.

10 Jul 2018 2:32 AM

The Union Women and Child Development Minister was at an event on International Yoga Day at the Natural Childbirth Centre in New Delhi. (Photo: MinistryWCD/Twitter)

Union Minister Maneka Gandhi joins prenatal yoga session with pregnant women

The women performed several prenatal yoga asanas under the guidance of a teacher.

21 Jun 2018 5:05 PM

Speaking at the launch of a handbook on 'Legal processes for police in respect of crime against children' in New Delhi, Gandhi asserted that her ministry has taken several steps to fight crime against women and children. (Photo: PTI | File)

Provide rape investigation kits in all police stations, says Maneka Gandhi

The kits are designed to carry out immediate medical investigation and aid in furnishing evidence in sexual assault and rape cases.

20 Jun 2018 8:15 AM

If the NRI marriages are not registered within seven days, the passports and visas would not be issued. (Representational image)

NRI marriages need to be registered within 7 days: WCD

WCD minister Maneka Gandhi had last week said that the NRI marriages would need to be registered within 48 hours.

15 Jun 2018 2:08 AM

'The ministry has recently issued six look-out circulars in such cases and in five cases, passports were revoked by the Ministry of External Affairs,' Maneka Gandhi said (Photo: PTI)

NRI marriages to be registered within 48 hrs else no passport, visa: Maneka Gandhi

The ministry had earlier constituted an Integrated Nodal Agency (INA) to look into matrimonial disputes involving NRI's.

07 Jun 2018 12:45 PM

WCD to give new rape probe kits to cops, hospitals

State governments are procuring the rape investigation kits with financial support under the Nirbhaya Fund, she said.

07 Jun 2018 6:43 AM

The air hostess maintained that she had lodged a complaint with Air India in September 2017 and written to then CMD of the airline, but 'none was forthcoming'. (Photo: Representational | File)

Complete probe of sexual harassment case by June: Maneka Gandhi tells Air India

The move comes after the air hostess met the Union Women and Child Development (WCD) minister in New Delhi on Monday.

04 Jun 2018 3:51 PM

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