Child Beggars

The Delhi High Court on Friday sought response from the AAP government and the Centre on a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking eradication of begging by children in the national capital.

A skill development programme to eradicate child begging will soon be implemented in Maharashtra, state Women and Child Development Minister Yashomati Thakur has said and also assured all help to children orphaned due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Two men were arrested and a minor was detained for allegedly killing a beggar on suspicion of being a child-lifter in Chhattisgarh's Korba district, the police said today.

Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi today urged the Delhi Police to completely remove child beggars from the streets and rehabilitate them and make the national capital a "mirror" for rest of the country.

At rush hour every weekday, women with babies slung across their arms line the traffic-choked streets of the Indonesian capital, flagging down drivers looking to game Jakarta's carpooling laws by hiring a few extra passengers.

The Bombay High Court today asked Maharashtra Government to come out with a comprehensive policy to rehabilitate child beggars in the city.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi chose Haryana to launch the nationwide camnpaign called 'Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao' (Save the Girl Child, Educate Her). The scheme will focus on fighting female foeticide and empowering women through education. Haryana has the worst sex ratio (number of females per 1,000 males) and child sex ratio in the country. Out of ...

A 20-year-old youth has claimed he escaped from the clutches of the beggar mafia who allegedly kidnapped him nearly three weeks ago.

The city police rescued 210 child beggars from different parts of the city in a day-long rescue operation conducted on December 2.

The railway police have intensified their search for the six-day-old baby who was kidnapped by a woman from the CST station on October 15.Police personnel including two women officers, dressed up as beggars, have laid a trap outside Haji Ali durgah to nab the suspected woman who is suspected to be a beggar. Senior inspector Dilip Mane of the CST ra...

The Delhi High Court on Friday sought response from the AAP government and the Centre on a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking eradication of begging by children in the national capital.

A skill development programme to eradicate child begging will soon be implemented in Maharashtra, state Women and Child Development Minister Yashomati Thakur has said and also assured all help to children orphaned due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Two men were arrested and a minor was detained for allegedly killing a beggar on suspicion of being a child-lifter in Chhattisgarh's Korba district, the police said today.

Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi today urged the Delhi Police to completely remove child beggars from the streets and rehabilitate them and make the national capital a "mirror" for rest of the country.

At rush hour every weekday, women with babies slung across their arms line the traffic-choked streets of the Indonesian capital, flagging down drivers looking to game Jakarta's carpooling laws by hiring a few extra passengers.

The Bombay High Court today asked Maharashtra Government to come out with a comprehensive policy to rehabilitate child beggars in the city.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi chose Haryana to launch the nationwide camnpaign called 'Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao' (Save the Girl Child, Educate Her). The scheme will focus on fighting female foeticide and empowering women through education. Haryana has the worst sex ratio (number of females per 1,000 males) and child sex ratio in the country. Out of ...

A 20-year-old youth has claimed he escaped from the clutches of the beggar mafia who allegedly kidnapped him nearly three weeks ago.

The city police rescued 210 child beggars from different parts of the city in a day-long rescue operation conducted on December 2.

The railway police have intensified their search for the six-day-old baby who was kidnapped by a woman from the CST station on October 15.Police personnel including two women officers, dressed up as beggars, have laid a trap outside Haji Ali durgah to nab the suspected woman who is suspected to be a beggar. Senior inspector Dilip Mane of the CST ra...