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New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked authorities to make public child helpline number 1098 to address cases of child begging in the national capital.The Delhi government informed a bench headed by Acting Chief Justice Manmohan, while dealing with a PIL against child begging, that...

New Delhi: Creating a national database and drafting a national policy for protection and rehabilitation of people engaged in begging are among the recommendations in an NHRC advisory issued on Friday.The advisory was issued to the Center and state governments to develop strategies to...

Mumbai: The Railway Protection Force (RPF) has reunited a 20-year-old intellectually disabled man from Bihar with his family, who believed he was dead, and also performed his last rites.Arjun Kumar had gone missing last August after leaving Himachal Pradesh for his hometown in Bihar, where his...

Thane: Police have arrested two people for allegedly extorting money from two transgenders who were begging outside a railway station in Navi Mumbai and trying to kill them. An official provided this information on Wednesday.He said that the arrest was made late Tuesday night.Based on the...

Mahoba (UP), Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday said those who praise Pakistan should go there with a begging bowl, an apparent reference to Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar's recently surfaced remarks.Addressing an election rally here in support of his party's...