India has made remarkable strides in the decline of child marriages over the last few decades and has led global progress to eliminate the practice. There is also a discrepancy in reported numbers, where despite high prevalence of child marriages recorded under NFHS-V, National Crime Records Bureau’s annual ‘Crime in India’ report recorded an average of only around 360 incidents …
New Delhi: In a major development, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal ordered the suspension of a Delhi government officer accused of raping a minor several times and impregnating her, on Monday. The officer of the Delhi government's women and child development department has been booked for allegedly raping his friend's minor daughter several times and impregnating her, police had said on …
The Ministry of Women and Child Development on Friday said it was “shocked” at India’s lowered rank of 101 in the Global Hunger Report 2021 and dismissed the methodology used as “unscientific”. “The publishing agencies of the Global Hunger Report, Concern Worldwide and Welt Hunger Hilfe, have not done their due diligence before releasing the report,” a statement released by …
