Notice to governments over child rights
August 29th, 2012 - 11:20 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 29 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Wednesday issued notice to the central and the city governments on a plea which said that authorities have failed to create ... Read more...
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Apex court seeks response to NGO’s missing children action plan plea
August 28th, 2012 - 11:02 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 28 (IANS) The Supreme Court Tuesday asked the governments of states and union territories to file their response to a petition seeking the formulation of a National ... Read more...
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Three kids found dead in Uttar Pradesh village pond
August 17th, 2012 - 7:27 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, Aug 17 (IANS) The bodies of three children were found in a village pond in Mahoba district, police said Friday.The children, identified as Sanjay (9), Ria (7) and Deepak ... Read more...
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NDA to raise Assam violence, power failure in parliament
August 6th, 2012 - 5:00 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 6 (IANS) The opposition BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) will raise the ethnic violence in Assam in which over 50 people have died, the massive electricity ... Read more...
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Notice to Delhi government over 50 missing children
July 18th, 2012 - 8:30 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 18 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Wednesday issued notice to the Delhi government regarding 50 children who went missing in a span of eight days ... Read more...
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Notice to Uttar Pradesh over 90 missing children
July 13th, 2012 - 6:14 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Friday issued a notice to the Uttar Pradesh government over the 90 children missing from the state's Ghaziabad district ... Read more...
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Six kids missing from Rohtak shelter home traced
May 16th, 2012 - 9:22 pm ICT by IANS
Rohtak (Haryana), May 16 (IANS) Haryana Police here have located the six children who went "missing" from a controversial shelter home in this town, 70 km from New Delhi, ... Read more...
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Over 15,000 Chinese women, 8,000 kids rescued in 2011
March 10th, 2012 - 11:45 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, March 10 (IANS) Over 3,000 gangs involved in human trafficking were busted across China last year, and more than 15,000 women and 8,000 children rescued by police, the government ... Read more...
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China uses DNA database to reunite 2000 missing kids with parents
March 1st, 2012 - 10:59 am ICT by IANS
Beijing, March 1 (IANS) The DNA database of parents of missing children in China has helped over 2,000 abducted kids return home, an official has revealed.According to Chen Shiqu, head ... Read more...
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Beijing move to end street begging by children
February 11th, 2012 - 12:40 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, Feb 11 (IANS) The Beijing administration will take DNA samples from child beggars and put them into a database to see whether they were victims of child trafficking in ... Read more...
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McCanns’ release jigsaw image of Madeleine
December 22nd, 2011 - 10:21 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
London, Dec 22 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The McCanns are still pleading with the public to volunteer information to help them locate daughter Madeleine. The girl has been missing since the 3rd of May ... Read more...
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West Bengal pilloried for dismal educational record
October 21st, 2011 - 11:12 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Oct 21 (IANS) A public hearing conducted by National Commission Protection Child Rights (NCPCR) unveiled a horrific picture of the rampant violation of the right to education act in West ... Read more...
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Weak law, tracking system hampers missing kids’ recovery
July 29th, 2011 - 6:06 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 29 (IANS) There is a huge discrepancy in the number of missing children in the country as sourced from police records and that obtained through RTI applications, ... Read more...
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1,000 Mexicans held for involvement in sex trade
July 25th, 2011 - 1:39 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico City, July 25 (IANS/EFE) Over 1,000 people have been arrested in Mexico for their involvement in human trafficking and prostitution, officials said.Around 500 men and 530 women were arrested ... Read more...
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Seven kids go missing in Delhi every day
July 20th, 2011 - 6:33 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) Many fathers and mothers in Delhi, especially from the working class, are coping with a sudden vacuum in their lives: their children have disappeared. Seven ... Read more...
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Delhi to get more women cops
July 2nd, 2011 - 8:31 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 2 (IANS) Delhi would get 450 more women constables within two months, police chief B.K. Gupta said Saturday."Around 450 women police personnel will join the force in ... Read more...
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Photograph kids regularly for safety, police urges parents
May 31st, 2011 - 10:37 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 31 (IANS) With around 700 cases of missing children in the capital this year so far, Delhi Police Tuesday urged parents to photograph their children regularly so ... Read more...
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British man groomed teenaged girls on Facebook for sex
May 28th, 2011 - 6:45 pm ICT by IANS
London, May 28 (IANS) A 19-year-old Briton has admitted having sex with girls as young as 13 who he groomed on Facebook, police said.Jake Ormerod, from Torquay in Devon, ... Read more...
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Police arrest child killer employer
April 21st, 2011 - 6:07 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 21 (IANS) The employer of 10-year-old Moin who was beaten to death last week has been arrested on the charge of murder. Police also rescued Moin's brother ... Read more...
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Child kidnappers get 10 years in jail
April 17th, 2011 - 2:37 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 17 (IANS) A Delhi court has awarded 10 years rigorous imprisonment to two habitual child kidnappers, including a woman.The court also said that punishment for child abduction ... Read more...
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Court asks police to probe child trafficking gangs (Lead)
March 16th, 2011 - 9:04 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Wednesday took a serious view of police failure to trace missing children and directed the Delhi Police chief to constitute ... Read more...
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Police told to probe child trafficking gangs
March 16th, 2011 - 7:52 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Wednesday took a serious view of police failure to trace missing children and directed Delhi Police chief to constitute a task ... Read more...
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26 child workers rescued in Delhi
February 15th, 2011 - 6:37 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 15 (IANS) Twenty-six child workers were rescued from an embroidery unit in south Delhi Tuesday, an NGO said. The police crackdown on the unit in Jamia Nagar area came ... Read more...
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Carlina White reunited with her parents after 23 years
January 21st, 2011 - 2:04 am ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
New York City, Jan 20 (THAINDIAN NEWS) A couple had to wait for 23 years before their baby who was kidnapped at birth could be reunited with them.It was a touchy moment ... Read more...
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500 Delhi kids missing for past one year, court told
January 19th, 2011 - 10:53 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 19 (IANS) The Delhi Legal Services Authority (DLSA) Wednesday submitted before the Delhi High Court that more than 500 children who have been missing for the past one year ... Read more...
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Facebook’s Amber Alerts to help locate missing children
January 13th, 2011 - 3:22 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 13 (ANI): Facebook is teaming up with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to launch a new system called Amber alerts to issue bulletins about child abductions.Each ... Read more...
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Pakistani man a messiah for missing kids
December 31st, 2010 - 11:22 am ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Dec 31 (IANS) This is no ordinary man but a messiah for the missing children in Pakistan. Anwar Khokhar, who served as a barber to then Pakistani prime minister Zulfikar Ali ... Read more...
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Over 600 children missing from Delhi this year
December 30th, 2010 - 10:15 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 30 (IANS) Nearly 2,161 complaints of missing children were registered in seven of the 12 districts of Delhi in nine months of 2010, response to a Right to Information ... Read more...
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Over 2,500 kids went missing in Karachi last year
November 21st, 2010 - 12:39 pm ICT by IANS
Karachi, Nov 21 (IANS) More than 2,500 children were reported as missing in Karachi last year, an NGO has revealed.Roshni Helpline, an NGO that deals with childrens' rights, said that as many ... Read more...
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Over 1,000 missing children rescued, police tells court
October 22nd, 2010 - 9:54 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 22 (IANS) The Delhi Police has informed Delhi High Court that more than 1,000 missing children in the city have been rescued by them in the past one year.
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Hundreds of children missing after Pakistan floods
September 10th, 2010 - 6:14 am ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Sep 10 (IANS) Hundreds of children have been missing following the devastating floods in Pakistan, a media report said.
Some 10 million parents were separated from their children and many are ... Read more...
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Court asks police to take action on missing children
September 8th, 2010 - 10:30 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 8 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Wednesday sought an action-taken-report from Delhi Police within eight weeks on the high number of missing children in the capital. It also asked ... Read more...
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Overflowing rivulet claims three lives in Punjab
July 8th, 2010 - 10:13 pm ICT by ANI
Chandigarh, July 8 (ANI): Overflowing rivulet claimed the lives of three innocent children of Rani Majra village here on Thursday.The victims Sanjay, Deepak and Navneet, who were playing in the seasonal rivulet ... Read more...
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Malaysian-Indian parents expand missing daughter’s search to Malaysian villages
July 6th, 2010 - 6:33 pm ICT by ANI
Kuala Lumpur, July 6 (ANI): The parents of missing Malaysian-Indian toddler, G. Chandramohan and Wong Lai Lan have refused to give up on their search for daughter Nisha, and are now distributing ... Read more...
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California mulls ad-supported digital number plates
June 23rd, 2010 - 4:22 pm ICT by ANI
London, June 23 (ANI): California is contemplating using digital number plates, which would switch to ads when vehicles were stuck in traffic, as a way to raise money to tackle its 19 ... Read more...
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