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NEW DELHI: In a big step forward towards empowering the women across religious divide, a parliamentary Standing Committee has unanimously recommended that women be given equal rights in guardianship and adoption of children. In its report on the Personal Laws Amendment Bill, 2010 — introduced in the Rajya ..... Read More
Dear All, India has around 230 million children currently in age group 6-16. In the next decade, all these would cross 16 years of age, and reach a stage where more formal education is practically impossible. Of these, around 30 million would get a chance ..... Read More
May 4, 2010 Finances & Budgets, Right to Education, Uncategorized The funding pattern between the Centre and the state for implementing Right To Education Act should be referred to the National ..... Read More
NEW DELHI: Stepping up the urgency to check malnutrition, the women and child development (WCD) ministry has asked the Census Commissioner to include `age weight' as a parameter in the annual health survey that is expected to begin in the next few months. The survey will cover 284 districts ..... Read More
MUMBAI: Exactly a year after parents in Hasegaon of Latur district withdrew their children from a school which had eight HIV-positive orphans, the state's hinterland has thrown up another tale of stigmatisation. Social activists say that the ..... Read More