Govt to redraft child protection policy guidelines

Govt to redraft child protection policy guidelines

Monday, 31 August 2015 | Priyanka Sharma | New Delhi

Taking cognisance of the recent incident of torture of a minor boy at a childcare home at Pandav Nagar in East Delhi, the Delhi Government is going to redraft the ‘child protection policy guidelines’ which would strictly be followed by all childcare homes that provide shelter to the children below...

Can Cong open its account?

Monday, 31 August 2015 | Pramod Kumar Singh | New Delhi

Having been vanquished in the last Delhi Assembly polls, the bypolls to 13 municipal wards in the national Capital are going to be the litmus test for the Congress. The party that ruled the city for full three terms under Sheila Diskhit was wiped out after the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)...

Boosting job opportunities for mentally retarded

Monday, 31 August 2015 | Priyanka Sharma | New Delhi

The Delhi Government is planning to launch Capital’s first half way home to streamline mentally challenged people in the employment sector. With the start of the pilot project, the Government aims to commission the home with 40-bed capacity at Rohini sector-3 within four months. For this, the officials from department of...

Delhi's posh localities have most woman tormentors

Monday, 31 August 2015 | Staff Reporter | New Delhi

Over 370 persons were arrested and around 2500 were detained allegedly for eve-teasing and stalking by Delhi Police in the first three weeks of ‘Operation Shishtachar’ with southern parts of Delhi topping the list of detention with 831 persons. The initiative was launched on August 2 by Delhi Police to rein-in...

Domestic violence: Man asked to pay maintenance to wife, kids

Monday, 31 August 2015 | PTI | New Delhi

A local court has directed a man to pay Rs5,000 as monthly maintenance to his estranged wife and children in a domestic violence case filed against him. The court, however, refused to provide police protection to the woman and her children, saying she has not narrated any recent incident of violence...

MIM working for Muslims, Dalits across India: Owaisi

Monday, 31 August 2015 | Omer Farooq | Hyderabad

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) president and member of lok Sabha from Hyderabad Asaduddin Owaisi strongly rejected the allegations that his party was dividing the secular votes and helping the BJP. In an exclusive interview to The Pioneer on Sunday at the party headquarters in Darussalam he said that it was...

Political violence rocks northern Kerala

Monday, 31 August 2015 | VR Jayaraj | Kochi

Political violence on Sunday rocked northern parts of Kerala, which had witnessed the murder of a BJP activist and a CPI(M) worker on Friday, the Onam festival day, and subsequent violent incidents. Clashes between BJP and CPI(M) workers were reported late Sunday evening from Kasaragod while Kannur saw at least...

PM: Interviews for low level jobs being done away with

Monday, 31 August 2015 | PNS | New Delhi

Reiterating his promise made on the Independence Day from the Red Fort, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday that Government is working “very fast” to end the requirement of interviews for certain Government jobs. “In my Independence Day address, I had questioned the requirement of interview for lower category jobs....

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