Beggar Home

All people in mental health homes should get vaccinated at the earliest, the Supreme Court directed the central government today as it pulled up Maharashtra for sending mentally-challenged patients to beggar homes.

A 65-year-old beggar turned out to be the owner of over Rs 2.58 lakh shortly after she was shifted to a shelter home for better facilities in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir, a senior government official said on Tuesday.

Auto-rickshaw drivers in the national capital, who are forced to give up their source of income and sit idle at home are facing problems amid the coronavirus lockdown.

Documents for fixed deposits worth Rs 8.77 lakh with several banks and at least Rs 1.5 lakh in coins were found at the home of a beggar who died in an accident in Mumbai, the police said.

The NGO which runs the Muzaffarpur shelter home for destitute girls where inmates were allegedly sexually abused, was sanctioned another project by the Bihar welfare department for running a beggars' home in Patna, officials said.

For a brief moment Ishamuddin Khan had the world at his feet: A pioneer of the "Great Indian Rope Trick" -- an illusion of such legend it was long believed to be impossible -- he thought fame and fortune were assured.

When residents of a slum in Kalyan near Mumbai went to douse a fire that had broken out in one of the houses on Wednesday, sacks full of cash left them shocked.

On Wednesday Beggars Group posted a statement saying it was puzzled by the lack of royalty payments during the trial.

It was the perfect Eid gift for Pakistani national Nuzhat Jahan and her Indian husband, Mohammed Gulfam. The Delhi High Court today ordered Nuzhat to be released immediately from a beggars' home, where she had been lodged since May because of visa violation.

Bashirabi may not have been clad in her Sunday best when cops saw her at CST station on the morning of August 18, but the 55-year-old vegetable vendor from Nagpur wasn't dressed like a dog's dinner either. If her appearance wasn't up to the standards deemed suitable by the team of policemen that mistook her for a beggar and hauled her to court it ...

One more inmate of the Beggars Relief Centre in Bangalore died while being brought back from hospital today, taking the toll in the government-run Centre to 27 in the past week."The beggar who had escaped from the Centre a week ago died while he was being brought back in a vehicle", Principal Secretary, Social Welfare, Venkateshaiah said.Police sai...

He had stepped out of home to go to the bank. Instead, he landed in a home for beggars, thanks to the unnecessary and extra concern shown by a policeman.Colaba resident Robert D'souza (62), who is visually challenged, was picked up by a police constable in the first week of this month and, much against D'souza's wishes, taken to the Beggars' Home i...

All people in mental health homes should get vaccinated at the earliest, the Supreme Court directed the central government today as it pulled up Maharashtra for sending mentally-challenged patients to beggar homes.

A 65-year-old beggar turned out to be the owner of over Rs 2.58 lakh shortly after she was shifted to a shelter home for better facilities in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir, a senior government official said on Tuesday.

Auto-rickshaw drivers in the national capital, who are forced to give up their source of income and sit idle at home are facing problems amid the coronavirus lockdown.

Documents for fixed deposits worth Rs 8.77 lakh with several banks and at least Rs 1.5 lakh in coins were found at the home of a beggar who died in an accident in Mumbai, the police said.

The NGO which runs the Muzaffarpur shelter home for destitute girls where inmates were allegedly sexually abused, was sanctioned another project by the Bihar welfare department for running a beggars' home in Patna, officials said.

For a brief moment Ishamuddin Khan had the world at his feet: A pioneer of the "Great Indian Rope Trick" -- an illusion of such legend it was long believed to be impossible -- he thought fame and fortune were assured.

When residents of a slum in Kalyan near Mumbai went to douse a fire that had broken out in one of the houses on Wednesday, sacks full of cash left them shocked.

On Wednesday Beggars Group posted a statement saying it was puzzled by the lack of royalty payments during the trial.

It was the perfect Eid gift for Pakistani national Nuzhat Jahan and her Indian husband, Mohammed Gulfam. The Delhi High Court today ordered Nuzhat to be released immediately from a beggars' home, where she had been lodged since May because of visa violation.

Bashirabi may not have been clad in her Sunday best when cops saw her at CST station on the morning of August 18, but the 55-year-old vegetable vendor from Nagpur wasn't dressed like a dog's dinner either. If her appearance wasn't up to the standards deemed suitable by the team of policemen that mistook her for a beggar and hauled her to court it ...

One more inmate of the Beggars Relief Centre in Bangalore died while being brought back from hospital today, taking the toll in the government-run Centre to 27 in the past week."The beggar who had escaped from the Centre a week ago died while he was being brought back in a vehicle", Principal Secretary, Social Welfare, Venkateshaiah said.Police sai...

He had stepped out of home to go to the bank. Instead, he landed in a home for beggars, thanks to the unnecessary and extra concern shown by a policeman.Colaba resident Robert D'souza (62), who is visually challenged, was picked up by a police constable in the first week of this month and, much against D'souza's wishes, taken to the Beggars' Home i...