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12 stories for “Children” · May 2026
Clear filtersSovereign Legal Uniformity: First Northeastern State Codifies Common Family Law Grid While Protecting Tribal Customary TraditionsIn a historic legislative milestone restructuring the subnational civil law architecture of...
Electoral and Child Rights Protection: Justices Amanullah and Mahadevan Constitute Justice Mukta Gupta Panel to Design Pan-India SOPIn a powerful, binding judicial intervention designed to dismantle sophisticated cross-b...
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued Advisory 2.0 to States and Union Territories for the welfare of transgender persons, covering ten key areas.Separate categories such as 'Intersex', 'Transmen' and 'T...
Constitutional Expansion of Maternity Benefits: Apex Court Strikes Down Section 60(4) of Social Security CodeIn a landmark judgment championing gender justice and the institutional rights of alternative families, the Sup...
Decentralized Educational Governance: Formally Structuring Parent-Teacher Oversight NodesTo institutionalize civic participation, student safety, and fiscal transparency across primary and secondary tiers, the Union Educ...
National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) figures for 2024 place Odisha at the top for violent crime rate, with 161.6 victims per lakh population; Bihar came second with 83. Odisha registered 75,403 violent crime cases, the f...
National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data show that juvenile crime in India went up in 2024. Cases rose to 34,878 from 31,365 in 2023, and the juvenile crime rate climbed from 7.1 to 7.9. In all, 42,633 juveniles were ap...
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has released India's first guidance document on Diabetes Mellitus in children. It sets out a national framework for screening, diagnosis, treatment and long-term management for c...
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has released guidelines for Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK) 2.0. RBSK is a child health screening programme under the National Health Mission that covers children from bi...
The Government of India will launch Prashast 2.0, a tool to identify 21 types of disabilities among school students. It will support early screening of Children with Special Needs (CWSN) in schools, simplify the disabili...
Modernizing OCI: The 2026 Digital ShiftThe Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) notified the Citizenship (Amendment) Rules, 2026, on April 30, 2026. The new framework transitions the Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) process to...
In Lucknow Public School vs The State of Uttar Pradesh, the Supreme Court ruled that neighbourhood schools must give immediate admission under the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009. The Act gua...
