Girl Child Women Empowerment

Annually observed on October 11, International Day of the Girl Child serves as a platform to advocate for girl empowerment.

Pariksha Pe Charcha 2022 Live: While addressing the students on the fifth edition of PPC 2022, the Prime Minister stressed on the empowerment of girl child and said, "If the society lags behind in knowing the power of daughters, then that society can never progress.

In a first for Jammu and Kashmir, the district administration in Rajouri in association with the Motor Vehicle Department, launched pink vehicles on International Girl Child Day in order to provide a safe and dignified travel experience to women.

Nearly 90 per cent of the funds allocated last year to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s flagship programme for the girl child, Beti Bachao Beti Padhao, remains unutilised, according to a Parliamentary panel. The panel has urged the Centre to take remedial measures in a time-bound manner and has also demanded a “status note” on schemes where fun...

Priests, card printers, flower decorators and tent suppliers are all being recruited in Telangana to help crack down on child marriages. The legal age of marriage in India is 18 for women and 21 for men. The drive to stop child marriage, timed for the peak wedding season in the summer months, is focused on rural parts of Telangana, where more than ...

New York: Parents could reward infants with activity or cuddling rather than food, encouraging healthy behaviour and lifestyle in the future, says a study. Babies who get upset easily and take longer to calm down might be at higher risk of obesity. The study found that children can learn healthier lifestyles only when parents model healthy behaviou...

Tiring, a tribal-populated village in Judi panchayat in East Singhbhum district, will be the first one in Jharkhand where every dwelling unit will be identified by the name of a girl child and not by the head of the family. ‘Meri Beti, Meri Pehchan’ (My daughter, My Identity), a unique initiative under the ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padao’ (Save gi...

A 9-month-old baby girl, whose parents had sought mercy killing for her, is about to get a new lease of life at a hospital in Chennai.

Compared to vaginally born infants, those delivered by C-section showed significantly greater diversity of species in the weeks after birth.

When the then Women and Child Development Minister Renuka Chowdhury launched the Dhanalakshmi scheme in 2008, she hoped it would encourage families to educate girls. The scheme encouraged families to delay marriage, offering Rs 100,000 ($1,500) as insurance if the girl child was not married by 18. However, more than two-thirds, or 69 per cent, of t...

Till two days ago, a family in Jharkhand whose three children all work to help make ends meet had Rs 1,000 in the bank. Today, they have 2.8 lakhs. NDTV.com users from across the country gave generously after reading about Meera Khoya, 16, who cleared her Class 10 exams, but was unsure of whether she could afford to remain a student. Since she turn...

There is quite a celebration in the two-room tenement where Shalini Munnuswamy lives with her parents. Rescued from bonded labour when she was 11, Shalini has just graduated from high school in Chennai. For a child who earned up to Rs 100 rupees for each basket of shrimp she cleaned, her result last week was a milestone she thought she’d never re...

Many children also work in the services sector - in restaurants and hotels or middle-class homes where they cook, clean and even take care of other children.

In Rajasthan, a state famed for its palaces and forts, weddings peak during the Akshaya Tritiya festival in April and May, which is considered an auspicious period.

South Asia is the fastest-growing and second-largest region for human trafficking in the world after East Asia, according to the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime.

Annually observed on October 11, International Day of the Girl Child serves as a platform to advocate for girl empowerment.

Pariksha Pe Charcha 2022 Live: While addressing the students on the fifth edition of PPC 2022, the Prime Minister stressed on the empowerment of girl child and said, "If the society lags behind in knowing the power of daughters, then that society can never progress.

In a first for Jammu and Kashmir, the district administration in Rajouri in association with the Motor Vehicle Department, launched pink vehicles on International Girl Child Day in order to provide a safe and dignified travel experience to women.

Nearly 90 per cent of the funds allocated last year to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s flagship programme for the girl child, Beti Bachao Beti Padhao, remains unutilised, according to a Parliamentary panel. The panel has urged the Centre to take remedial measures in a time-bound manner and has also demanded a “status note” on schemes where fun...

Priests, card printers, flower decorators and tent suppliers are all being recruited in Telangana to help crack down on child marriages. The legal age of marriage in India is 18 for women and 21 for men. The drive to stop child marriage, timed for the peak wedding season in the summer months, is focused on rural parts of Telangana, where more than ...

New York: Parents could reward infants with activity or cuddling rather than food, encouraging healthy behaviour and lifestyle in the future, says a study. Babies who get upset easily and take longer to calm down might be at higher risk of obesity. The study found that children can learn healthier lifestyles only when parents model healthy behaviou...

Tiring, a tribal-populated village in Judi panchayat in East Singhbhum district, will be the first one in Jharkhand where every dwelling unit will be identified by the name of a girl child and not by the head of the family. ‘Meri Beti, Meri Pehchan’ (My daughter, My Identity), a unique initiative under the ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padao’ (Save gi...

A 9-month-old baby girl, whose parents had sought mercy killing for her, is about to get a new lease of life at a hospital in Chennai.

Compared to vaginally born infants, those delivered by C-section showed significantly greater diversity of species in the weeks after birth.

When the then Women and Child Development Minister Renuka Chowdhury launched the Dhanalakshmi scheme in 2008, she hoped it would encourage families to educate girls. The scheme encouraged families to delay marriage, offering Rs 100,000 ($1,500) as insurance if the girl child was not married by 18. However, more than two-thirds, or 69 per cent, of t...

Till two days ago, a family in Jharkhand whose three children all work to help make ends meet had Rs 1,000 in the bank. Today, they have 2.8 lakhs. NDTV.com users from across the country gave generously after reading about Meera Khoya, 16, who cleared her Class 10 exams, but was unsure of whether she could afford to remain a student. Since she turn...

There is quite a celebration in the two-room tenement where Shalini Munnuswamy lives with her parents. Rescued from bonded labour when she was 11, Shalini has just graduated from high school in Chennai. For a child who earned up to Rs 100 rupees for each basket of shrimp she cleaned, her result last week was a milestone she thought she’d never re...

Many children also work in the services sector - in restaurants and hotels or middle-class homes where they cook, clean and even take care of other children.

In Rajasthan, a state famed for its palaces and forts, weddings peak during the Akshaya Tritiya festival in April and May, which is considered an auspicious period.

South Asia is the fastest-growing and second-largest region for human trafficking in the world after East Asia, according to the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime.