
Toronto: It's a parent's worst nightmare. Their child doesn't come home one evening and is missing for several days. When a 14-year-old boy from Atlanta, Georgia disappeared earlier this year, his mother turned to her smartphone for clues using an app called Family Tracker that helped track his location. It is one of several apps that allow parents to track the whereabouts of their children. 'You can see where your...

12:36 AM, May 08, 2012

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday sought response from the Centre, States and Union Territories on a petition alleging that over one lakh children have mysteriously disappeared from their homes across the country between 2008 and 2011. A bench of justices Altamas Kabir and S S Nijjar also sought reply from the Attorney General G E Vahanvati on the PIL filed by an NGO, Bachpan Bachao Andolan. Appearing for...

12:05 PM, Mar 16, 2012

New Delhi: Union Home Ministry has issued a country wide advisory to states and enforcement agencies to track missing children and step up anti-trafficking drills. The advisory came on a day when the Home Ministry took serious note of the plight of two-year-old battered baby Falak and sought a report from Delhi Police on the probe related to the child, terming it a case of human trafficking. "Ministry of Home...

07:21 PM, Feb 07, 2012

According to an RTI report, over 1600 children go missing in Delhi every 4 months. ...

09:34 PM, Jan 09, 2012

New Delhi: How safe are children in India's capital? An RTI report has found that over 1600 children go missing in Delhi every 4 months. Yet in almost half the cases, FIRs are never filed. CNN-IBN met parents who were told by the police to find their missing children on their own. The capital of India - buzzing 24x7 - but behind the glitz is the dark side. In its...

07:11 AM, Jan 09, 2012

New Delhi: 11 children go missing every hour in the country, a child rights NGO claimed on Thursday, citing data collected from government between 2008 and 2010 and a survey. The Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA) said it collected the data using RTI from 392 districts across the country in a span of two years and claimed it found nearly 11 children go missing every hour. In its book 'Missing Children...

11:49 PM, Dec 08, 2011

Police say nearly 2,000 children went missing from NCR in 2009. ...

11:42 AM, Dec 31, 2009

The report is by the Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights. ...

07:32 PM, Aug 25, 2009

Barring tales like Nithari killings, missing kids make no headlines. ...

10:53 PM, Mar 15, 2009

More than 100 children have gone missing from East Delhi since last year. ...

08:59 AM, Feb 19, 2009

Islamabad: Pakistani opener Imran Farhat has decided to serve a legal notice on Mazhar Majeed, the London-based Pakistani bookmaker, who has in another video named four more players as being involved in spot-fixing. Farhat, one of the four named by Majeed in the video shown on Geo News channel on Tuesday, said he was appalled by the bookmaker's claims. I just don't know what to say; neither is he my...

02:58 PM, Nov 11, 2007

The Uttar Pradesh government decided to set up a special missing children's cell in every district. ...

05:09 PM, Jan 08, 2007

In the aftermath of the Nithari killings, questions are being raised about lakhs of kids missing across the country. ...

01:42 PM, Jan 07, 2007