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Health Allocations for children need a fillip say child rights activists

NEW DELHI: As the Union Budget draws near, activists have demanded increase in the spending on children. As a proportion to the total government expenditure, share of health, nutrition, water supply and sanitation stood at 5.48% on an average during 2005-2009. India spends less than 2% of GDP on ..... Read More

Missing children

7 children go missing every hour Chetan Chauhan, Hindustan Times, New Delhi, Updated: Feb 21, 2011 00:33 IST   India’s children are missing at a much faster rate than ever before with as many as 60,000 young ones below 18 reported missing in 2009 as compared to 44,000 in 2004 ..... Read More

Govt overhauling only Hindu law, says SC

Govt overhauling only Hindu law, says SC Dhananjay Mahapatra TNN  New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday pulled up the Centre again over its failure to overhaul the personal laws of the minority communities, saying it was a reflection of its secular credentials.      It said the government’s attempts to reform ..... Read More

Capital Crime…Delhi tops crime charts

NEW DELHI: The case of alleged sexual abuse of a minor girl at AIIMS has brought to the fore the vulnerability of children in the city. According to the latest report by the National Crime Records Bureau of the Union ministry of home affairs, Delhi reported the highest crime ..... Read More