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Lucknow shelter home deaths: Hospitalised inmates ‘stable’, say doctors

March 29, 2025 5:37 am

The doctors claimed that the blood test reports of the inmates admitted to the Lok Bandhu Shri Raj Narayan Combined Hospital, Lucknow, have revealed that many of them have diabetes, tuberculosis and hepatitis

Look into complaints over payment from NGO providing food at shelters: Delhi L-G to Chief Secy

April 29, 2023 9:37 pm

After the pandemic hit, NGO Akshay Patra Foundation was providing food at homeless shelters.

296 shelter homes in Delhi, but many spending chilly nights on footpaths

December 30, 2021 8:40 am

🔴 The original capacity is 19,734, while the revised capacity (revised after mattresses on the floor were replaced by beds) is 9,100. The report shows 7,927 beds were occupied as on December 28.

Shelter home for rescued animals soon in Thane

September 21, 2020 1:27 am

Shashank Tomar, founder of CAP foundation, told The Indian Express, “We have acquired the plot required for the shelter. We are confident that the shelter will be ready before December 31

Make arrangements to shelter 15 lakh people in state, says CM Yogi Adityanath

April 28, 2020 6:16 am

Adityanath, however, did not make the state government's stand on lockdown clear.

Bihar: CBI registers FIRs against two shelter homes for abuse of minors

January 16, 2019 5:26 pm

A Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) report had mentioned in the category of 'grave concerns' issues related to 17 shelter homes out of which the Muzaffarpur shelter home case was already being investigated by the agency.

Shelter home workers used chilli powder to discipline girls as young as 6, says DCW

December 29, 2018 7:08 am

Earlier this month, nine women had gone missing from a shelter home in east Delhi, after which the DCW roped in Koshish, an external agency of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences which had exposed the Muzaffarpur shelter home scandal.

Adding ‘stronger sections’ in shelter home cases: Bihar govt

November 29, 2018 10:33 am

On Wednesday, Bihar Chief Secretary Deepak Kumar directed police to “add relevant stronger sections”, including under the POCSO (Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences) Act in cases where the victims are minors.

Sexual abuse, lack of trained staff, but no regular audits at Mumbai shelter homes

September 10, 2018 3:01 am

In the aftermath of the Uttar Pradesh and Bihar incidents, in which girls in shelter homes were sexually assaulted, the central Women and Child Development (WCD) Ministry ordered a social audit of shelter homes in all states. In Mumbai, a social audit has not been conducted for at least last three years.

Pune: Sent to shelter as they had nowhere else to go, it is their home now

September 09, 2018 8:01 am

Before the girls go to school every morning, their attendance is marked via a bio-metric system, and the same is done after they return from sports or other extra curricular activities in the evening.

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