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Sustainable Development

Modi launches campaign to tackle India's dwindling number of girls

on Thursday, launching a campaign to address the problem the United Nations has said amounts to a national emergency. “In our neighbourhood, girls are commonly killed...

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Health

Health Min to strengthen maternal & child tracking systems

In a bid to improve child sex ratio by providing better antenatal and pre-natal care to women in the country, the Health Ministry is planning to strengthen its Maternal and...

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Health

Lost Childhood

A lot of children constantly run away from fractured, abusive homes, explains Paul Sunder Singh of Karunalaya. “They head towards Chennai or Mumbai or Hyderabad, lure...

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Sustainable Development

Half of India's missing children last year were sold into prostitution

The laxity of authorities has allowed child-trafficking syndicates to thrive, especially in the eastern states of India. Between 2013 and 2014, at least 67,000 children in ...

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Hollywood

Pharrell Williams And Friends Raise Their Voices Against Child Labour

Pharrell Williams, Producer/composer/guitarist Mike Einziger, composer Hans Zimmer and Blink-182’s Travis Barker are among the Academy Award, Golden Globe and Grammy ...

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Bollywood

India's women are key drivers of social change through TV'

Women are the key drivers of positive social change in India through television, according to the executive behind one of the most profoundly influential shows in India, Sa...

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Bollywood

Women of Substance walk the ramp for Designer Salim Asgarally and Smile Foundation

“Children being children, are unable to ask for and take what is rightfully theirs. Child rights aren’t simply child rights. They are women’s rights, ...

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Bollywood

Rahul Bose joins a cause for child sexual abuse

Rahul Bose’s NGO held a press conference that was graced by actor Kalki Koechlin. It was organised to announce a seminar that would discuss the issue of child sexual ...

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TV

True Review:Television

The first day of the last month of the year 2013, NDTV telecast a day long telethon Our Girls Our Pride. A soul stirring initiative, indeed. It was a most eye-opening telec...

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Sustainable Development

Every second child in India is malnourished: Report

A recent report revealed that every second child in India is malnourished, 79% children across the country are anaemic whereas the child sex ratio is at the lowest point ev...

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