Child Development  

As a parent, it's crucial to ensure your children develop healthy habits and avoid excessive mobile phone usage. Here are some valuable tips to help you achieve this.

Parenting Tips: These simple morning routines can significantly impact your child's intelligence and brain development. Read about five essential things parents can do every morning.

According to a recent report in the Journal of Computers in Human Behavior, excessive phone use can contribute to issues such as anxiety and depression.

Many parents find it challenging to spend time with their children due to work commitments, leading to increased screen and social media usage. These habits can negatively impact your child’s overall health. Find out some strategies that can help you and your child establish a strong bond.  

While academic knowledge is still vital, it is the broader life skills - the tools your child requires to engage effectively and productively with the world around them. Here are skills that will enable your children to transform uncertainty into opportunity, equipping them for a great future, no matter what it holds.

Developing a sense of self esteem is important for excelling at life. If you’re child talks negatively about themselves, it’s important to have a calm conversation with them. With simple, daily practices you can foster positive thoughts and help them develop self-esteem.

'Laapataa Ladies' is a heartwarming comedy-drama shedding light on women's issues. Directed by Kiran Rao, it's receiving rave reviews and resonating with audiences worldwide

Mukyamantri Mahila Samman Yojana, a scheme launched by Delhi government, aims to improve the financial status of women from underprivileged backgrounds. Under this scheme, women above the age of 18 will receive financial assistance of Rs 1,000.

In the year 2000, Smriti Irani made her debut with the TV serial ‘Hum Kal Aaj Aur Kal.’ Presently, Smriti Irani is serving as the Minister of Women and Child Development and Minister of Minority Affairs.

Adoption is no longer an act of bringing a child home but it is a legal process where all the rights and privileges of a child are safeguarded along with the transfer of responsibilities to adoptive parents in a legal manner said Union Minister of Women and Child Development (WCD), Smriti Zubin Irani

The POCSO Amendment Bill that was already approved by the Rajya Sabha, defines child pornography and also makes it a punishable offense. Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani said this Bill aims at making offences against children gender neutral
 

Atrocities against children have seen an increase in Kerala in the last four years, with at least 6,000 POCSO cases still pending trial
 

Officers prevented the wedding of 17-year-old girl, who is studying in Class 8 in Hosapete. Parents of the girl were made to sign an agreement stating that they wouldn't get the girl married till she turns 18.

This year, the Nari Shakti Puraskar has also been awarded to a One Stop Centre (OSC) and to a state which has shown exceptional progress in improving child sex ratio at birth under the Beti Bachao Beti Padhao scheme. The Ministry of women and child development is establishing OSCs for violence-affected women in all districts of the country

Earlier in 2013, the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development introduced its helpline number after the Nirbhaya incident occurred in Delhi