New Delhi: Delhi's Rekha Jhingan has been fighting the menace of drug abuse for the past 20 years after her own athlete husband took to drugs in 1991 and she didn't have many options then to help him get rid of the habit. Rekha Jhingan's day begins in the national capital's Hanuman Mandir. While many go there to seek divine intervention, she goes there to lend a friendly hand to...
09:18 AM, May 16, 2012
Just three days before the much talked about episode of the Aamir Khan hosted Satyamev Jayate on child sexual abuse, the Rajya Sabha passed The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Bill, 2011. The Bill seeks to protect children from sexual abuse with provision for setting up special courts for speedy trial and stringent punishment including life sentence for committing sexual assault on minors under the age of 16. Here...
06:47 PM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: Aamir Khan's show 'Satyamev Jayate' is just two episodes old, but the show is getting very good response from the common viewers as well as celebrities, however some of the facts revealed on the show are shocking. The report that Aamir Khan and his guests quoted from, is 'Study on Child Abuse: India 2007' by the Women and Child Development Ministry. The study is a detailed analysis of...
01:13 PM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: Whom does a child turn to when the one he trusts with all of his tiny heart turns abuser? In a nut-shell, the second episode of Aamir Khan's television show Satyamev Jayate was simply heart-breaking. It brought out a common but rarely talked-about scourge of society - the sexual abuse of children - often by people they trust the most. Aamir spoke to several such victims, their family...
01:46 PM, May 13, 2012
New Delhi: The second episode of Aamir Khan's much talked about television show Satyamev Jayate deals with the issue of child abuse. Given the huge positive feedback generated by the pilot episode that tackled the contentious subject of female foeticide both in rural and urban India, the second episode is even more explosive in form and content. According to the sources, Aamir has been working with a string of NGOs...
11:54 AM, May 13, 2012
New Delhi: The second episode of Aamir Khan's much talked about television show Satyamev Jayate deals with the issue of child abuse, according to sources. Given the huge positive feedback generated by the pilot episode that tackled the contentious subject of female foeticide both in rural and urban India, the second episode is likely to be even more explosive in form and content. According to the sources, Aamir has been...
03:23 PM, May 11, 2012
The plight of a 14-year-old Afghan girl caused international outrage when she was found tortured, allegedly at the hands of her in-laws. ...
09:49 AM, May 09, 2012
New Delhi: In a shocker from Gurgaon, the caretaker of an NGO-run shelter has been arrested for allegedly raping, filming and threatening the minor girls who stayed there. This after the victims' teacher alerted the authorities. A team from the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) conducted a raid on Saturday. This is the second such case to come to light in Gurgaon in the last three months...
12:57 PM, May 06, 2012
London: A woman who hurled racist abuse at an Indian-origin man on the London Underground is likely to be jailed after admitting her offence. The police had launched an investigation after a video of the incident went viral on the Internet. The incident occurred on the Central Line between St Paul's and Mile End stations on January 23 when Jacqueline Woodhouse, 42, apparently in an inebriated state, lashed out against...
09:17 AM, May 03, 2012
The Union Cabinet has cleared a new law which aims to protect children from sexual abuse. ...
11:30 PM, May 02, 2012
KOCHI: The recent haul of a large consignment of cough syrup from a wholesale drug store in Kozhikode sheds light on the illegal sale of such syrups and tablets as sedatives targeting the younger generation. Apart from the cough syrup, Nitravet (an inducing agent for treating insomnia), Trica (used against anxiety and nervous disorders), Frisium (used in the management of anxiety, agitation or tension) and Spasmoproxyvon (pain killer) are the...
11:38 AM, Apr 28, 2012
Chandigarh: Just hours after the Cabinet on Thursday approved the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Bill, a shocking story emerged from Chandigarh where a boy was sexually abused by a group of youngsters. An 8-year-old boy was sexually abused allegedly for several days by a group of youngsters. The accused also made an MMS of the incident and circulated it among their friends. All six of the accused, of...
09:27 AM, Apr 27, 2012
The three-month-old baby, beaten up badly by her father, succumbed to a massive cardiac arrest on Wednesday. ...
11:50 PM, Apr 11, 2012
Bangalore: Baby Afreen lost her battle for life in a Bangalore hospital on Wednesday. The three-month-old baby was simply unable to bear the brutal torture she suffered at the hands of her own father, all because she was born a girl. The infant succumbed to a massive cardiac arrest on Wednesday morning. And now, her broken-hearted mother is demanding justice. "He killed my baby. He should not be left free...
09:45 PM, Apr 11, 2012
Baby Afreen's mother Reshma called for the strictest punishment for her husband after Afreen died on Wednesday. ...
01:36 PM, Apr 11, 2012
Bangalore: Three-month-old baby Afreen, who was allegedly beaten and abused by her father, died of cardiac arrest in Bangalore on Wednesday. Afreen, who was admitted to Bangalore's Vani Vilas hospital on Sunday, suffered a massive cardiac arrest on Wednesday at 10:40 AM and died at 11:10 AM after all efforts to revive her by the doctors failed. Professor of Paediatrics at Vani Vilas Hospital R Premalatha said that multiple convulsions...
11:42 AM, Apr 11, 2012
CHENNAI: Denying the joys of sexual intercourse to people over 50, is directly related to the increasing instances of child sexual abuse in the country, says noted sexologist Dr Narayana Reddy. After releasing an extensive study titled Sex and the Aging Indian, accumulated over two decades, Dr Reddy pointed out that a large number of elderly people were denied sex, causing this problem. It is almost an established train of...
08:24 AM, Apr 11, 2012
Bangalore: Baby Afreen, the three-month-old baby, who was allegedly beaten and abused by her father, is in a semi-comatose state and doctors say that her condition has worsened. The Vani Vilas hospital, where Afreen is admitted, has sought help from the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS) for Afreen's treatment. Afreen continued to be on life support on Wednesday. Resident Medical Superintendent (RMS) Somegowda said the baby...
08:19 AM, Apr 11, 2012
Baby Afreen, the three-month-old baby, beaten and abused by her father continues to be critical and on life support. ...
11:37 PM, Apr 10, 2012
Bangalore: Baby Afreen, the three-month-old baby, beaten and abused by her father continues to be critical and on life support. Her father, who is believed to have done this because he wanted a boy, has been arrested and sent to judicial custody. The baby was beaten, battered and burnt with cigarettes, but now her mother has said that she cannot take the abuse of her child anymore. Reshma Banu has...
09:21 PM, Apr 10, 2012
