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Govt. announces interim measures to curb online child sexual abuse
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] May 12 (ANI): The Ministry of Women and Child Development has been making several efforts to deal with the problem of online Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM).
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Nirbhaya gangrape: Justice delayed but finally delivered, says Maneka
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 5 (ANI): As the Supreme Court upheld the earlier order of the death sentence to the four convicts in the brutal Nirbhaya gangrape case, Union Cabinet Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi expressed happiness saying that even though justice was delayed
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Pinwi upgrades its parenting app, introduces Pinwi 2.0
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 27 (ANI): The data-driven app for child development and parenting, Pinwi (Play-Interest-Wise) on Thursday introduced a new version 2.0 for both on iOS and Android platforms.
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Guna child marriage: Women activists call on Maneka Gandhi to safeguard ch
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Apr. 15 (ANI): Strongly condemning the incident where a Panchayat in Madhya Pradesh's Guna passed a diktat of marrying a five-year-old girl off to an eight-year-old boy, social activist Brinda Adige on Saturday called on the Union Cabinet Minister for Wom
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Filmmaker flays Maneka's statement, says films teach what is right an
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Mumbai [India], Apr. 8 (ANI): Filmmaker Ashoke Pandit on Saturday condemned Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi's statement that films have been promoting sexual violence against women.
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Women activists support Maneka Gandhi's remark on Bollywood films
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi/Mumbai [India] Apr. 8 (ANI): Agreeing with Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi's remark on films posing as a threat to women, women activists on Saturday said that Indian cinema needs to be sensitive towards this issue as the young crowd picks things e
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Maneka Gandhi blames movies for rising violence against women
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Panaji (Goa) [India], Apr. 8 (ANI): Blaming movies for the rising crime against women in the country, Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi has urged the film fraternity to portray women in a better light.
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World Autism Awareness Day: Lighting it up blue for autism awareness
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 2 (ANI): April 2nd is sanctioned by the UN as World Autism Awareness Day (WAAD). Every year on this day, Ummeed Child Development Centre joins a global movement to create awareness about autism as a condition and increase understanding of the need for early diagnoses
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WCD Ministry issues advisory against schemes floated in name of BBBP schem
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar. 21 (ANI): The Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD) has issued an advisory for Delhi residents that no personal details should be shared in the name of forms providing cash incentives under the Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP) scheme.
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Govt. issues clarification regarding Aadhaar card requirements under ICDS
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar. 9 (ANI): There have been reports in the media regarding cash transfers under the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme and making Aadhaar mandatory for benefits under the Women and Child Development Ministry's programme.
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Setting up of 'Women's Entrepreneurship Council' to be pose
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 4 (ANI): The Ministry of Women and Child Development has proposed the setting up of a Women's Entrepreneurship Council for taking up with the government the problems faced by businesswomen.
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Maharashtra civic polls: Pankaja Munde offers resignation
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Beed (Maharashtra) [India], Feb. 23 (ANI): Taking responsibility of the poor performance of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in her constituency, Parli, Maharashtra's Women and Child Development Minister Pankaja Munde on Thursday offered to resign from her post.
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