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Guidelines, training of cops must to prevent sexual abuse of kids

HT Correspondents, Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Updated: Aug 23, 2015 16:16 IST A spate of sexual assaults across the country reveal children are not safe anywhere. Whether they are coming in from Bengaluru, Mumbai and Delhi or from Bhopal, Patna and Chandigarh, the reports are remarkably similar. Adults working in ..... Read More

More clarity needed on NCRB’s data on crimes against children

Updated: August 21, 2015 10:36 IST RAMYA KANNAN There is some confusion in reading and interpreting the data that NCRB has recorded under crimes against children, in the new format that it has employed this year. Chennai: With the National Crime Records Bureau adopting a new methodology to report crimes against ..... Read More

Number of poor, uneducated children taking to crime goes up: NCRB

Chetan Chauhan, Hindustan Times, New Delhi  | Updated: Aug 21, 2015 16:06 IST A majority of Delhi’s underage delinquents are dropouts with little support at home or school, says a child rights panel report. (Shutterstock Image) The latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report shows that while more and more children ..... Read More

In school with no power, crumbling walls, students at risk every day

For the 7,000 children who study, don’t just brave the possibility of electric shocks everyday, but also the risk of studying in a building termed ‘highly unstable’ and ‘earthquake prone’ by the Delhi PWD. ..... Read More

Life is not a beach

LATEST COMMENTS:  Marvellous.from: G.BALASUBRAMANIAN. Jul 19, 2015 at 20:09 IST Mining for beach sand minerals poses a threat to the economic and social fabric of fishing villages along Tamil Nadu’s coast. By ILANGOVAN RAJASEKARAN SANTIAGO, 73, has been at sea for nearly 60 summers of his life. The old fisherman from Periyathalai village ..... Read More