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Constance Wu, boyfriend Ryan Kattner became parents to a baby girl in the summer

Wu never publicly revealed her pregnancy and shared her last post on Instagram.

Watch: Exclusive interview with Ranjitsinh Disale, who won the Global Teacher Prize

On Thursday, a 32-year-old teacher named Ranjitsinh Disale was awarded the much anticipated Global Teacher prize and prize money of $1 mill...

RBL Bank to hold virtual cyclothon to raise funds for girl child education

The funds raised from the event will go towards setting up a second Udbhav RBL School for girl child education.

A child or young person newly infected with HIV every 100 seconds last year: UNICEF

Warning that children are being left behind in the fight against HIV, it said that prevention efforts and treatment for children remain som...

Odisha crime branch to probe Nayagarh minor girl's case: Minister

The victim's father had alleged that the main accused in the case is a key aide of a minister from Nayagarh, and the police was "bowing dow...

Pak court sends Christian teenage girl to shelter home after conversion, marriage to Muslim man

Arzoo, 13 who is a resident of Karachi's Railway Colony, went missing on October 13 and later it was found that she married Syed Ali Azhar,...

Deliberation for action plan to regulate placement agencies going on: Panel tells Delhi HC

A court-appointed committee has told the Delhi High Court that deliberations are going on for preparing an action plan for strict enforceme...

2,061 girls among 3,531 children adopted in 2019-20: Govt data

Among states, the largest number of children were adopted from Maharashtra at 615 followed by Karnataka at 272, Tamil Nadu at 271, Uttar Pr...

European Union MPs raise alarm over treatment of minority girls in Pakistan

After the forced abduction, conversion and marriage of Christian girl Huma Younus, another 14-year-old Catholic girl has been kidnapped in ...

Mandira Bedi adopts baby girl, names her 'Tara'

Tara became a part of the family on July 28, this year.

Mother, wife or daughter's names on house plaques in this UP district

"More than 200 nameplates with names of daughters were put up on the doors of the houses in various villages in the last few days. The camp...

Genex to provide FD of Rs 11,000 to girl child to promote gender equality

This initiative is designed to empower the girl child with her own money when she turns 18 and she would then have all the right to use the...

Government to soon take decision on minimum age of marriage for girls: PM

The prime minister said the girls' gross enrolment ratio in education has turned higher than that of boys for the first time in the country...

No school, no mid-day meals or ration; COVID-19 deals double blow to kids in Karnataka

The mid-day meal programme fed about 56 lakh children in government and aided schools everyday, but the meals were gone with the lockdown t...

Harry and Meghan join Malala Yousafzai to talk about girls' rights

The video chat will cover how the pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on young women's access to education.

Ed Sheeran is on cloud nine, announces arrival of baby girl

The singer and his wife, Cherry Seaborn, have named their first child - Lyra Antarctica Seaborn Sheeran.

Government mulling revising legal age of marriage for girls, hints PM Modi

As of now, while the legal age of marriage in India is 18 years for girls, it is 21 for boys. Anaemia and malnutrition are common afflictio...