NCPCR

NCPCR chief Priyank Kanoongo has written to Minister of Information and Broadcasting, CS Krishnan Reddy, highlighting the potential exposure of minors to explicit material on the platform.

The recent controversy over the Bihar government’s decision to slash Hindu holidays off the academic calendar for 2024 has sparked a heated debate on the issue of secularism and minority appeasement in the state. The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has intervened in the matter and asked the Nitish Kumar-led government to […]

NCPCR says Delhi government school children were used for glorification of a person accused in liquor scam.

Days after the Election Commission sent a notice to Congress over the participation of children in its 3570 km Bharat Jodo Yatra, party said that reports of children being used for election campaigns are untrue as Rahul Gandhi is not asking children to vote for the party.

The Yogi Adityanath government has announced a government job and an ex-gratia of ₹18 lakh for the family of the two minor Dalit sisters who were gang-raped and hanged to death in Lakhimpur Kheri earlier this week. UP Police have arrested six accused on charges of raping and strangling the teenagers in Nighan area of […]

Following reports of forced conversion of children, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) wrote to the Tamil Nadu Chief Secretary and Director General of Police for the submission of the Action Taken Report along with a copy of the First Information Report (FIR). The NCPCR also called for a statement from children […]

Ankita, a 15-year-old Class 12 student, was allegedly burned alive by a spurned lover, Shahrukh, in Dumka district

NEW DELHI: Apex child rights body National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) wrote a letter to Vijay Singh Meena, Commissioner of Police, Kanpur Nagar to initiate an inquiry and take necessary legal action against persons who used children in Kanpur violence. NCPCR asked for an Action Taken Report along with a copy of […]

  NEW DELHI: The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has summoned Twitter India’s communications director for not submitting an “action taken report” (ATR) against comedian Kunal Kamra for posting a “doctored” video of a boy singing a patriotic song for Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his Germany visit earlier this month. In […]