Beggars In India

As a child, Pinki Haryan, along with her parents, begged on the streets and scavenged for food in garbage dumps in Mcleodganj.

A couple of foreign tourists, seated in an autorickshaw, found themselves in an unsettling situation when they were chased by two homeless child beggars, making the tourists feel unsafe in Delhi.

A 40-year-old woman has managed to earn Rs 2.5 lakh in just 45 days by forcing her eight-year-old daughter and two sons to beg on the streets of Indore.

A 39-year-old man from Uttar Pradesh has been arrested from Ahmedabad, where he had been residing by assuming a new identity for the last 17 years after allegedly killing a beggar with the help of his family members in order to fake his own death.

A man allegedly stabbed a beggar to death suspecting him of having an affair with his wife in northeast Delhi's Mansarovar Park area, police said today.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi narrated a story of four children whom he met during the Bharat Jodo Yatra, and said that they were beggars who did not wear sweaters, shivering in winters, which inspired him not to do the same during the yatra.

National Conference Vice President Omar Abdullah on Tuesday said that election is the right of the people but Kashmiris will not beg before the Centre to hold polls in Jammu and Kashmir.

A 78-year-old woman beggar was allegedly raped by a man in Madhya Pradesh's Bhopal city, police said on Sunday.

A 35-year-old female beggar was allegedly raped by an auto-rickshaw driver and his friend in east Delhi's Ghazipur area, police said on Saturday.

Two people, including a 65-year-old disabled beggar, were arrested on Sunday over the killing of a man on January 1 in west Delhi's Rajouri Garden area following an argument, police said.

Aiming to make the capital begging-free, the city government on Monday launched a pilot project to create livelihood opportunities for beggars through training and skill-building in central Delhi.

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.

Supreme Court made clear it will not take an "elitist view" that no beggars be allowed on the streets and asked the Centre and Delhi government to respond to a plea seeking vaccination and rehabilitation of beggars and vagabonds in view of pandemic.

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.

As a child, Pinki Haryan, along with her parents, begged on the streets and scavenged for food in garbage dumps in Mcleodganj.

A couple of foreign tourists, seated in an autorickshaw, found themselves in an unsettling situation when they were chased by two homeless child beggars, making the tourists feel unsafe in Delhi.

A 40-year-old woman has managed to earn Rs 2.5 lakh in just 45 days by forcing her eight-year-old daughter and two sons to beg on the streets of Indore.

A 39-year-old man from Uttar Pradesh has been arrested from Ahmedabad, where he had been residing by assuming a new identity for the last 17 years after allegedly killing a beggar with the help of his family members in order to fake his own death.

A man allegedly stabbed a beggar to death suspecting him of having an affair with his wife in northeast Delhi's Mansarovar Park area, police said today.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi narrated a story of four children whom he met during the Bharat Jodo Yatra, and said that they were beggars who did not wear sweaters, shivering in winters, which inspired him not to do the same during the yatra.

National Conference Vice President Omar Abdullah on Tuesday said that election is the right of the people but Kashmiris will not beg before the Centre to hold polls in Jammu and Kashmir.

A 78-year-old woman beggar was allegedly raped by a man in Madhya Pradesh's Bhopal city, police said on Sunday.

A 35-year-old female beggar was allegedly raped by an auto-rickshaw driver and his friend in east Delhi's Ghazipur area, police said on Saturday.

Two people, including a 65-year-old disabled beggar, were arrested on Sunday over the killing of a man on January 1 in west Delhi's Rajouri Garden area following an argument, police said.

Aiming to make the capital begging-free, the city government on Monday launched a pilot project to create livelihood opportunities for beggars through training and skill-building in central Delhi.

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.

Supreme Court made clear it will not take an "elitist view" that no beggars be allowed on the streets and asked the Centre and Delhi government to respond to a plea seeking vaccination and rehabilitation of beggars and vagabonds in view of pandemic.

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.