Kolkata Shelter Home

Rokiya Khatun starts her day by taking a round of 15 child care homes in Kolkata that shelter several orphaned and abandoned children.

A National Commission for Women (NCW) fact finding team has said the mentally unsound woman of a shelter home who was allegedly kidnapped and gang-raped in Kolkata has still not been given any protection, adding that it has found irregularities in the functioning of the facility.

A taxi driver has been arrested in Kolkata's southern outskirts over alleged abduction and rape of a shelter home inmate, a senior police officer said on Sunday.

Over a million people have been evacuated to temporary shelters in Odisha as Cyclone Fani - billed as the most severe cyclonic storm since the super cyclone of 1999 -- is expected to make landfall today very close to Puri, home to the famous Jagannath temple. Around 10,000 villages and more than 50 towns lie on its path. All flights from Bhubaneswa...

Three employees of a childcare centre in West Bengal's Howrah district have been arrested for sexually abusing differently-abled girls, the police said on Saturday. According to police sources, based on information shared by government officials, a police team had visited the NGO, Chiranabin-Children and After Care Home For Women and Girls in Joypu...

In June 2012, a woman who had "sheltered" with her daughter in Pinki Pramanik's Kolkata home accused the athlete of rape and cheating, among other charges. Pinki was arrested, forced to undergo sex verification tests without her permission or court orders and finally jailed for 25 days.

Rokiya Khatun starts her day by taking a round of 15 child care homes in Kolkata that shelter several orphaned and abandoned children.

A National Commission for Women (NCW) fact finding team has said the mentally unsound woman of a shelter home who was allegedly kidnapped and gang-raped in Kolkata has still not been given any protection, adding that it has found irregularities in the functioning of the facility.

A taxi driver has been arrested in Kolkata's southern outskirts over alleged abduction and rape of a shelter home inmate, a senior police officer said on Sunday.

Over a million people have been evacuated to temporary shelters in Odisha as Cyclone Fani - billed as the most severe cyclonic storm since the super cyclone of 1999 -- is expected to make landfall today very close to Puri, home to the famous Jagannath temple. Around 10,000 villages and more than 50 towns lie on its path. All flights from Bhubaneswa...

Three employees of a childcare centre in West Bengal's Howrah district have been arrested for sexually abusing differently-abled girls, the police said on Saturday. According to police sources, based on information shared by government officials, a police team had visited the NGO, Chiranabin-Children and After Care Home For Women and Girls in Joypu...

In June 2012, a woman who had "sheltered" with her daughter in Pinki Pramanik's Kolkata home accused the athlete of rape and cheating, among other charges. Pinki was arrested, forced to undergo sex verification tests without her permission or court orders and finally jailed for 25 days.