NPS Vatsalya is a pension scheme designed for minors. This initiative was rolled out across 75 locations nationwide with over 250 PRANs (permanent retirement account numbers) being allocated to young subscribers.
All the three accused boys have been apprehended with the knife and blood stained clothes. Investigation is being carried out in the case.
Disposing a petition filed by rights activist and lawyer Radhakanta Tripathy the NHRC passed the order seeking compliance of suggestive measures by the Special Rapporteur.
"As per available information [by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB)], the total number of suicide committed by children (below 18 years) during the last three years were 9431 in 2018, 9613 in 2019 and 11396 in 2020," Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Kumar Mishra said in a written reply in Lok Sabha.
Smugglers and traffickers in Libya — many of them members of militias — have long been notorious for brutalizing migrants. But rights groups and U.N. agencies say abuse also takes place in the official DCIM-run facilities.ap
The death penalty has been eliminated for those convicted of crimes committed while they were minors, Human Rights Commission president Awwad Alawwad said in a statement, citing a royal decree.
A group of three friends had gone to the railway bridge near Katana Sahib on Chandigarh-Ludhiana line to click selfies on their phones, they said.
A video purportedly showing two minor boys being stripped and beaten up for swimming in a well belonging to a farmer in Jalgaon district of Maharashtra had gone viral last week.
Malaysia’s top court said in a landmark decision on Monday that both parents must consent to the religious conversion of…
Lamenting the “delay” in carrying out the sentence of December 16 gang-rape and murder incident, Delhi Commission for Women Chief…
