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'Personal laws can’t legalise under-age marriage'
30 July 2012 3:36 PM ISTThe Delhi high court has said the consummation of marriage with a girl below the age of 15 amounts to raping her, despite her consent and the man is...
PM gets contempt notice in Visva Bharati row
14 July 2012 7:10 AM ISTThe Calcutta High Court Friday issued a contempt notice against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is the chancellor of Visva Bharati University, and...
Vishva-Bharati case: Girl shuns school
11 July 2012 7:20 AM ISTThe 10-year-old student who was allegedly made to drink her own urine in West Bengal's Visva-Bharati campus as a punishment for bed-wetting says she...
Viswa-Bharati shocker: warden gets bail
10 July 2012 6:44 AM ISTThe case of a Class 5 student allegedly made to drink her own urine in West Bengal’s Viswa-Bharati campus, founded by Nobel laureate Rabindranath...
Shantiniketan school girl made to drink urine
9 July 2012 6:11 PM ISTA four member fact-finding committee has been constituted to look into a complaint that a class five student of Visva Bharati’s Patha Bhavan school in...
Girls go missing from juvenile home
5 Jun 2012 7:16 AM ISTA four-member team of National Commission for Protection of Child Rights [NCPCR] on Monday visited an observation home in Ghaziabad to enquire into...
Parliament passes child sexual abuse bill
23 May 2012 7:28 AM ISTOn Tuesday, Parliament approved a bill to protect children below 18 from sexual abuse, set up special courts for speedy trial of cases against them...
A child is no mere robot
22 May 2012 7:21 AM ISTAs it is there are other idiotic things to view, so why watch those television serials. Well, its this simple rationale that keeps me away from the...
Furore over baby abuse in Malaysia
17 May 2012 9:32 AM ISTDisturbing footage has emerged showing a Malaysian mother repeatedly hitting and kicking her defenceless ten-month-old daughter.The footage which is...