July 06, 2021 2:08 pm
Set up by the Transgender Rights Association, the home will provide basic computer training, beautician training, tailoring, jute bag manufacturing and jewellery making and communication development skills for those who have completed their higher education.
August 01, 2019 1:28 am
Nineteen children from the ashram, run by Shishuvihar Vidyaprasarak trust, managed to walk to a mini-bus owned by the shelter home. It took them to the house of a trustee of the organisation.
March 13, 2019 3:54 pm
The Muzaffarpur shelter home in Bihar is where several girls were allegedly raped and sexually abused at an NGO-run shelter home.
February 26, 2019 7:00 am
Since May 30 last year, when they were rescued from a shelter home in Muzaffarpur, 34 girls have been staying at three institutions.
February 16, 2019 6:16 pm
Petitioner Dr Ashwani Kumar requested a CBI probe against the senior officials for not "monitoring periodic government reports", especially by the Child Working Committee, on the functioning of Muzaffarpur shelter home.
January 02, 2019 6:28 pm
Verma had stepped down as minister on August 6, 2018 after a number of media reports alleged that her husband Chandrashekhar Verma had close links with Brajesh Thakur - the prime accused in the shelter home scandal.
November 29, 2018 3:03 am
The bench told the Bihar Chief Secretary, who was present in court as per directions, that “any request made by the CBI for assistance should be promptly dealt with and acceded to”.
November 22, 2018 10:55 pm
The Tata Institute of Social Science (TISS) report was submitted to the Bihar government and it has highlighted gross violations of human rights of inmates in 15 shelter homes in the state.
November 17, 2018 5:41 am
The court in Begusarai also turned down an application filed by Verma, through her counsel last week, wherein she had pleaded that she was not evading arrest, but "seeking relief as per law" and hence, she may not be proclaimed an absconder.
November 15, 2018 7:27 pm
Bihar police had been conducting raids since morning at several locations across the state in a struggle to arrest Verma, who had been absconding. She came under the scanner after cartridges were found at her residence during the CBI raid in connection with the case.