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September 18, 2012 2:09 PM

Track Child portal for missing children soon

The Women and Child Development ministry will soon launch a web portal named 'Track Child', which will serve as a central database of all those children who have gone missing in different parts of the country. Informing this in New Delhi today, Women and Child Development Secretary, Prem N...

September 18, 2012 2:03 PM

Centre scheme to educate adolescent boys on gender sensitivity

The Centre has decided to launch a scheme to empower adolescent boys by educating them on gender sensitivity and moral behaviour. The Ministry of Women and Child Development says, the scheme known as Saksham aims to target young boys in the age group 10-18 years for their holistic development by giv...

September 18, 2012 1:59 PM

National Child Rights Commission summons UP Health Secy on encephalitis deaths

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) today summoned the Uttar Pradesh's Principal Health Secretary on the death of children due to Japanese Encephalitis and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome in Gorakhpur district. Confirming the move the Chairperson of the NCPCR Shantha Sinh...

September 18, 2012 1:56 PM

EC & Egypt sign MoU for co-operation in electoral management & administration

The Election Commission of India and the Supreme Presidential Committee of Egypt today signed an MOU for mutual sharing and cooperation in Electoral Management & Administration. The MOU's were signed this morning by the Visiting Secretary General of the Supreme Presidential Committee of Egy...

September 18, 2012 12:31 PM

BJP members walk out of JPC meet on 2G scam

BJP members today walked out of the proceedings of a Joint Parliamentary Committee on 2G scam, claiming that they were not allowed to raise the issue of finalising the list of witnesses. On August 22nd also, BJP members had walked out of the JPC meeting alleging that Congress members had used foul l...

September 18, 2012 9:15 AM

68% cable TV digitization achieved in four metros: I& B Min review

The government has said that around 68 per cent of Cable TV Digitization has already been achieved in the 4 metro cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai. This was revealed by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in a recent review meeting of Digitization progress. The Cable Television ...

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