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IQ vs EQ: Why we must focus on emotional quotient more than anything else

August 06, 2025 3:29 pm

The emotional depth of a country's citizen, their capacity for compassion, camaraderie, and support, is what really makes it strong, not its GDP, innovations, or military prowess

Punjab and Haryana High Court on child Custody

Mother returns from Australia to get son amid custody battle, uncle goes to court

April 30, 2025 5:45 pm

The Punjab and Haryana High Court stressed the child’s wishes in an ongoing custody dispute between his parents.

‘Children being subjected to torture across Bengal since 2021 Assembly polls’: NCPCR in report to President Murmu

March 26, 2024 8:44 am

State minister calls it a 'politically motivated' move.

As Maharashtra doubles child welfare grant, benefit yet to reach several Covid orphans

February 12, 2023 3:14 pm

For the first time in 2021, amid the second wave of the pandemic, former Women and Child Development (WCD) minister Yasomati Thakur raised the need to increase the rehabilitation amount for eligible children.

Maharashtra: Rs 468 crore from district annual funds to go to schemes for empowerment of women and children

January 12, 2022 11:58 pm

Currently, the total allocation for District Planning and Development Council (DPDC) is Rs 15,622 crore.

Chandigarh: Woman to face trial for assault on five-yr-old stepdaughter

May 18, 2018 4:51 am

Kaur had been booked for assaulting her stepdaughter and fracturing her leg. She was videographed carrying out the assault by her stepson, the own brother of the five-year-old victim.

Community child welfare centre launched in Kolkata

February 21, 2018 12:23 pm

The CCWC will focus on raising awareness on trafficking, violence and exploitation of children and will act as a standard model to build safe communities across the entire country.