Indian Orphans

The Tamil Nadu government has assured all support including legal and diplomatic help through the Centre, in bringing home a two-year-old boy, orphaned due to his parents death, in the US.

The Elephant Whisperers, an upcoming India-set short documentary from Netflix, now has a release date: December 8. The Guneet Monga-produced documentary follows a South Indian couple, who fall in love with an orphaned baby elephant, entrusted in their care. The film marks Kartiki Gonsalves’ directorial debut, and is available in the Tamil languag...

Supreme Court granted the custody of a 6-year-old boy, orphaned in the deadly second wave of Covid last year, to his paternal grandparents, saying that in Indian society, the paternal grandparents always take "better care" of grandchildren.

Even as the Indian auto sector is going through one of its worst times with slumping sales and poor demand, the central government has not abandoned the internal combustion engine (ICE) based automotive ecosystem just yet, according to Anand Mahindra. The Mahindra & Mahindra Group Chairman was reacting to a statement from Prime Minister Narendra Mo...

A London-based Indian-origin woman faces extradition to India for her involvement in the murder of a 12-year-old orphan from Gujarat.

Where Has Time Gone is in five parts. The Brazilian part shows the aftermath of a dam collapse. The Indian part tells the friendship between an old man and an orphan

Marginal farmers, labourers, orphans, Dalits and tribals - nearly a hundred children from very underprivileged backgrounds have made Telangana proud this year. With special coaching from free government schools, 27 of them have cracked the entrance examination for the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology. The other 71 will go to the National...

Chennai: Dhanalakshmi was 14 and pregnant when she was rescued from a children’s home in Tamil Nadu. She had been entrusted in the care of the unregistered institution by her mother, a ragpicker who could no longer afford another mouth to feed. But instead of receiving protection, the teenager was raped for months by staff in the home, according ...

The US adopts most number of Indian children from various orphanages across the country, followed by Italy and Spain, the government said on Friday.

It's sad but true that the $2 billion Indian film industry, touted as one of the largest in the world, still treats animation as an orphaned child.

Suraj Jagan, one of the pioneers of the Indian rock scene, says the genre is not readily accepted by masses and rockers have been treated like orphans

The Indian Embassy the US has sought details from the United States Government on the issue of deportation of the Indian-American orphan Kairi Abha Shepherd, saying her case deserves to be treated with utmost sensitivity and compassion. "We need to keep in mind the humanitarian dimension and tenets of universally accepted human rights," Indian Emb...

India has told Norway officials that two Indian children who have been put in foster care there against their parents' wishes are "neither orphans nor Stateless persons, and enjoy the protection of the Indian State." The strong stand follows attempts by Norwegian officials to keep the children there after their visas expire next month.

As if fate playing a cruel prank on Sandeep Kamble by depriving him of familial love all his life wasn't bad enough, the 21-year-old orphan has also been denied a passport because he does not have a birth certificate.While a government rule introduced in 2006 makes it mandatory for applicants born after 1989 to submit a copy of their birth certific...

Eight-year-old Rajitha stands before her class to recite a poem. For most children, this would be an ordinary moment. For Rajitha, it signals a break with the past. And the beginning of a normal childhood.NDTV first met Rajitha in May in a government hospital in Mahabubnagar district in Andhra Pradesh. She weighed what a one-year-old should and lay...

The Tamil Nadu government has assured all support including legal and diplomatic help through the Centre, in bringing home a two-year-old boy, orphaned due to his parents death, in the US.

The Elephant Whisperers, an upcoming India-set short documentary from Netflix, now has a release date: December 8. The Guneet Monga-produced documentary follows a South Indian couple, who fall in love with an orphaned baby elephant, entrusted in their care. The film marks Kartiki Gonsalves’ directorial debut, and is available in the Tamil languag...

Supreme Court granted the custody of a 6-year-old boy, orphaned in the deadly second wave of Covid last year, to his paternal grandparents, saying that in Indian society, the paternal grandparents always take "better care" of grandchildren.

Even as the Indian auto sector is going through one of its worst times with slumping sales and poor demand, the central government has not abandoned the internal combustion engine (ICE) based automotive ecosystem just yet, according to Anand Mahindra. The Mahindra & Mahindra Group Chairman was reacting to a statement from Prime Minister Narendra Mo...

A London-based Indian-origin woman faces extradition to India for her involvement in the murder of a 12-year-old orphan from Gujarat.

Where Has Time Gone is in five parts. The Brazilian part shows the aftermath of a dam collapse. The Indian part tells the friendship between an old man and an orphan

Marginal farmers, labourers, orphans, Dalits and tribals - nearly a hundred children from very underprivileged backgrounds have made Telangana proud this year. With special coaching from free government schools, 27 of them have cracked the entrance examination for the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology. The other 71 will go to the National...

Chennai: Dhanalakshmi was 14 and pregnant when she was rescued from a children’s home in Tamil Nadu. She had been entrusted in the care of the unregistered institution by her mother, a ragpicker who could no longer afford another mouth to feed. But instead of receiving protection, the teenager was raped for months by staff in the home, according ...

The US adopts most number of Indian children from various orphanages across the country, followed by Italy and Spain, the government said on Friday.

It's sad but true that the $2 billion Indian film industry, touted as one of the largest in the world, still treats animation as an orphaned child.

Suraj Jagan, one of the pioneers of the Indian rock scene, says the genre is not readily accepted by masses and rockers have been treated like orphans

The Indian Embassy the US has sought details from the United States Government on the issue of deportation of the Indian-American orphan Kairi Abha Shepherd, saying her case deserves to be treated with utmost sensitivity and compassion. "We need to keep in mind the humanitarian dimension and tenets of universally accepted human rights," Indian Emb...

India has told Norway officials that two Indian children who have been put in foster care there against their parents' wishes are "neither orphans nor Stateless persons, and enjoy the protection of the Indian State." The strong stand follows attempts by Norwegian officials to keep the children there after their visas expire next month.

As if fate playing a cruel prank on Sandeep Kamble by depriving him of familial love all his life wasn't bad enough, the 21-year-old orphan has also been denied a passport because he does not have a birth certificate.While a government rule introduced in 2006 makes it mandatory for applicants born after 1989 to submit a copy of their birth certific...

Eight-year-old Rajitha stands before her class to recite a poem. For most children, this would be an ordinary moment. For Rajitha, it signals a break with the past. And the beginning of a normal childhood.NDTV first met Rajitha in May in a government hospital in Mahabubnagar district in Andhra Pradesh. She weighed what a one-year-old should and lay...