Delhi: Two women seek custody of battered baby

A two-year-old girl abandoned in a hospital with critical injuries is struggling for her life though doctors said her condition has "slightly improved" on a day when two women approached the......

Sexual abuse in TN schools on the rise

Shocking incidents of sexual abuse and molestation by teachers came to light during the one-day hearing of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), in Chennai on Wednesday,......

India home to a third of world's illiterates

Acknowledging it is home to 268 million of the world's 771 million illiterates, India on Wednesday cited plans to spend Rs 6,000 crores to make 85 per cent of Indians literate over the next five......