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Children born of live-in relationships are legitimate, Supreme Court says

Dhananjay Mahapatra,TNN | Apr 24, 2014, 02.08 AM IST   The Supreme Court has said that if a man and woman "lived like ..... Read More

Ambitious child panel sans members, no fresh appointment since 2011 (MCPCR)

Tarini Puri,TNN | Apr 12, 2014, 05.38 AM IST PUNE: When a state commission to deal exclusively with children's issues was set up in 2007, there was much hope that it would lead to effective implementation and monitoring of policies and acts related to children. Seven years on, the commission ..... Read More

Better monitoring may improve implementation of RTE Act

V Devanathan,TNN | Apr 19, 2014, 01.40 AM IST MADURAI: The revolutionary Right To Education (RTE) Act has got a long way to go before it achieves the goals set forth under it. The state education department has so far achieved not even half of the 100% target enrolment of students from ..... Read More

Faridabad maid’s death: One held, second autopsy likely

Ambika Pandit,TNN | Apr 20, 2014, 04.37 AM IST NEW DELHI: Six days after a tribal girl from Uttar Dinajpur in West Bengal was found dead in mysterious circumstances at the residence of her employers in sector 49, the Faridabad police arrested the owner of a Delhi-based placement agency, Rafiq, ..... Read More

Minor girl to be brought back from Gorakhpur

TNN | Apr 18, 2014, 01.31 AM IST PANAJI: An eight-year-old girl who was wrongly sent to a protective home in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, on order of the Child Welfare Committee (CWC), South Goa, will be brought back to Goa, since the child's mother lives here. The escort team will leave for ..... Read More