-The Economic Times The RTI Act is undoubtedly a historic landmark and has energised sections of our population like nothing else before. But despite its careful crafting and a well-defined machinery to back it, getting those bits of information, which vested interests within the government wish to hide, are an extremely arduous task. Therefore, I was not surprised when my RTI, seeking simple information regarding the number of foreign trips undertaken...
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Marriageable age: Khap meet today for consensus -Deepender Deswal
-The Times of India ROHTAK: Members of Haryana's sarv khap mahapanchayat would meet in Sonipat on Saturday to discuss rising crimes against women in the state and evolve a consensus on its proposal seeking lowering of the Marriageable age to check rapes. The umbrella body is going ahead with the meeting despite the flak it has drawn over the proposal that former Haryana Om Prakash Chautala has also backed. Kuldeep Dhanda, a khap...
More »UN appeal follows outrage at child Marriage demand -Aarti Dhar
-The Hindu ‘Child Marriage is not the right way to shield girls from sexual crimes’ As the demand for lowering the age of Marriage has sparked outrage, the United Nations has told India that child Marriage is not the right way to shield girls from sexual crimes. In a joint letter to Union Women and Child Development Minister Krishna Tirath, four U.N. organisations have urged India to address the issue of child Marriage...
More »India emerges world’s child Marriage capital -Rakhi Chakrabarty
-The Times of India Four UN agencies urged India to take "incremental action" to fight the scourge of child Marriages in the country on Thursday when the first International Day of the Girl Child was observed across the world. The focus of the first observance of the day is on child Marriage. In a letter to Union minister of women and child development Krishna Tirath, heads of four UN agencies in India...
More »Wedding food worth Rs 339 crore goes waste -Hetal Vyas
-The Times of India BANGALORE: After the big fat wedding is done with and the guests have gone home, what remains is the litter, dirty dishes and piles of excess high-calorie food. Enough to feed lakhs of children, in a country where malnutrition has been termed a "national shame" by Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh. Statistics show that every third malnourished child in the world is an Indian. A survey shows that annually,...
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