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Madhya Pradesh: Mazar built in Vidisha school premises, NCPCR chairperson
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Vidisha (Madhya Pradesh) [India], October 7 (ANI): Taking note of the alleged construction of a tomb inside the premises of a government school in Madhya Pradesh's Vidisha district, National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) Chairperson Priyank Kanoongo said he would submit a
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NCPCR chairman: Priests spreading superstition, misleading children for co
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 30 (ANI): The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) Chairman Priyank Kanoongo on Thursday tweeted that there have been complaints about priests spreading superstition in the name of treatment of children and misleading them for conversion.
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Child rights body takes suo moto cognizance over Bihar IAS Kaur's condom r
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 30 (ANI): The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights on Thursday took suo-moto cognizance in the Patna incident where an IAS officer had publicly mocked a school girl if "she wanted condoms too" when she asked for affordable sanitary napkins at a work
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UP: NCPCR seeks response of administration over dog bites to children in G
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 29 (ANI): Taking cognizance of the complaint of Advocate Vishnu Kumar Gupta, a human rights activist on the issue of rising incidents of Dog bites on children, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has sought responses from Municipal Com
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SC notice to Centre on DCPCR plea challenging amendments to JJ Act
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 26 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Centre on a plea of the Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights challenging the recent amendments to the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 by which some serious offences
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Jharkhand: NCPCR chairperson to meet Dumka DC, SP tomorrow after atrocitie
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Dumka (Jharkhand) [India], September 4 (ANI): After the two back-to-back shocking incidents of atrocities against minor girls in Jharkhand's Dumka, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) chairperson Priyank Kanoongo is scheduled to visit the district on Monday to m
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NCPCR chief says adequate care not given to Dumka victim
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 2 (ANI): Chairperson of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) Priyank Kanoongo will travel to Dumka to investigate the abscence of due diligence in handling the Dumka incident where a girl was set ablaze.
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UP madrassa survey: Child's rights protection body slams Owaisi for "misle
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 1 (ANI): Amid the ongoing row over madrassas, National Commission for Protection of Child Rights chairman Priyank Kanoongo slammed All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi and said that Owaisi was misleading minorities. He also thanke
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It is not survey but 'mini NRC': AIMIM's Owaisi hits out at survey on UP's
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], September 1 (ANI): All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) Chief Asaduddin Owaisi hit out against the Yogi Adityanath led-Uttar Pradesh Government for its decision to conduct a survey of madrassas in the north Indian state.
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Parl panel wants 'illegitimate' child reference removed, law on guardiansh
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 8 (ANI): A Parliamentary Committee has raised strong objection to the term 'illegitimate' being used in the Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act (HMGA) and suggested the government omit the word, "as no child is illegitimate, asserting that "the law should be the sam
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Three years of stronger integration of J-K with the Indian Union
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], August 5 (ANI): Dynast politics has an expiry date. Once, the surname 'Gandhi' made you a genuine heavyweight, but with Rahul losing Amethi, a Gandhi family bastion, that's gone. After Bal Thackeray's demise, Udhav Thackeray, as we have seen recently, co
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Kerala: Child Rights Commission directs state to make all schools co-ed
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], July 22 (ANI): With an aim to boost gender equality among the students, the child rights commission in Kerala has directed the education department to convert all schools in the state into co-ed schools, said the officials on Friday.
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