CHENNAI: An initiative by the city police to enhance security and prevent crimes against senior citizens who live alone has received an enthusiastic response. Following a spurt in crimes targeting the elderly, City Police Commissioner J K Tripathy hammered out a special plan. Senior citizens who are 'home alone' were requested to register with the police so that the cops could enhance security measures. In the last four months, 850...
08:10 AM, May 28, 2012
New Delhi: NAC member Aruna Roy is leading the newly formed Pension Parishad to demand a universal pension scheme. The question is whether every elderly person in India who is above 60 years of age should be entitled to a pension. The question was taken up by IBN18 Network Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghosh on her show Face the Nation. Here's the transcript of the discussion with a distinguished panel: Sagarika...
11:40 AM, May 09, 2012
All elderly people over 60 years from the BPL category get Rs 200 per month as pension under the Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme. ...
11:58 PM, May 08, 2012
Bangalore: A 60-year-old man identified as Alageshan was brutally beaten to death by two teenagers. The victim had confronted them after they allegedly misbehaved with his niece. Life will never be the same again for his Alageshan's niece, a class 9 student. Fed up of being misbehaved with by two teenagers over the last several weeks, she had complained to her family on Monday night. "On the road, they used...
07:14 PM, May 02, 2012
Bangalore: A 60-year-old man died in Bangalore after being assaulted by two teenagers. The man, identified as Alageshan was beaten up by two teenagers who he had reportedly warned against sexually harassing his niece. The police said that Alageshan confronted the two boys on Monday night. When he slapped one of them, they in turn hit him on his chest, following which he went unconscious and was declared dead in...
04:06 PM, May 02, 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
Kolkata: A senior citizen Manik Dabriwal wants tax laws to be amended so that citizens above the age of 60 years can claim deductions on the medical insurance premium paid by dependents. Manik, a 70-year-old businessman, spends his days catching up on the news that is something he didn't have time for when he was young. In his twilight years, Manik hopes to reap the benefit of his age, as...
08:48 AM, Mar 13, 2012
New Delhi: The Railway Ministry has agreed to extend to up to 40 per cent the concessions in fares given to male senior citizens while also agreeing to reduce the age for availing concession for women. This was informed by the Delhi government whose minister for Social Welfare Kiran Walia had taken up this demand with the Railway Ministry. The government of India has agreed to grant a relief of...
01:16 AM, Mar 02, 2012
New Delhi: A 66-year old man died of a heart attack after being allegedly pushed and kicked by two policemen in New Delhi while he was trying to save his son from being beaten up. The incident took place at the busy Dhaula Kuan police booth on Wednesday when the father-son duo asked the policemen for water to fix their car. Soon an argument ensued after which the cops allegedly...
07:53 AM, Mar 01, 2012
Nagpur: Encouraged by a Supreme Court verdict, making live-in relationships legal and inspired by a recent meet of senior citizens in Ahmedabad, in search of a life partner, elders in Nagpur have decided to give the idea a go. A group of senior citizens under the banner of 'Jyeshtha Nagrik Liv-In Relationship Mandal', led by a former banker Arvind Godbole hit on the idea to float an organisation for helping...
12:24 PM, Jan 24, 2012
Tokyo: Fifteen years ago, a growing sense of isolation due to old age prompted Kayoko Okawa, then 66, to knock on the door of a local volunteer centre and timidly ask if it was possible for someone her age to start an online community for seniors. The energetic 81-year-old is now president of the "Computer Grandmas Group" and says connecting this way can ease loneliness for Japan's increasing number of...
12:56 PM, Aug 25, 2011
On Valetine's day, a senior citizen couple writes a love letter to Pranab Mukherjee. ...
11:06 AM, Feb 14, 2011
A senior citizen explains things she would do for 2011 budget if she were to step into Pranab Mukherjee's shoes. ...
10:48 AM, Feb 08, 2011
Many senior citizens of the country feel left-out and distressed after being deserted by their own families. ...
05:04 PM, Jan 31, 2011
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