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3 yrs after being made legal guardian, Delhi man still struggling to bring adopted Nigerian child home

Mohd Wasi alleges his adopted son’s case is stuck as India’s adoption agency was dragging its feet even though laws give High Commission the power to issue visas or OCIs.

China ends foreign adoptions of its children, overturns one-child policy rule

More than 160,000 Chinese children have been adopted by families across world since 1992. It was not immediately clear what would happen to families who were in adoption process.

Should ex-spouse’s consent be required for new partner to adopt your child? Plea in SC raises issue

Petitioner's ex-husband filed for divorce when she was 9 months pregnant & has never seen their son. She asks for exemption from consent requirement so her new husband can adopt the child.

Why did SC refuse to allow adoption by same-sex couples? How question split 5-judge bench

Petitioners had argued in SC that same-sex couples must have a right to adopt children. Adoption by couples currently restricted to those in ‘stable marital relationship’.

Buried alive as newborn, UP ‘miracle’ girl now at centre of neta vs foreigners adoption battle

Family of former BJP MLA Rajesh Mishra, who helped rescue the child, has claimed nodal adoption agency flouted rules to favour a couple from Malta. Case is now in Supreme Court.

Why India struggles with low adoption rates — caste, class to genetics

It is estimated that there are 29.6 million stranded, orphaned and abandoned children in India. Just 3-4,000 get adopted annually.

Here’s how you can legally adopt a child in India, and it’s not through WhatsApp or Twitter

Several children under the age of 18 have lost both parents to Covid and this has made them vulnerable to illegal adoption or worse, trafficking.

Who should child go to if you both die? Govt wants declaration from Covid parents in hospital

WCD ministry has written a letter in this regard to the health ministry, says the measure is to protect children and ensure they don’t become victims of child labour or trafficking.

Amazon draws flak for selling Raksha Bandhan gifts saying ‘you’re adopted’

Amazon is selling 2 mugs and a cushion cover using ‘adopted’ as a joke. Activist Shabnam Hashmi calls company out on Twitter, tags central adoption agency CARA.

Adoption policy favouring 40+ single women likely to be rolled back

The 2017 provision, which fast-tracked adoption process for single women above 40, is acting against the best interests of children, CARA CEO Deepak Kumar tells ThePrint.  

On Camera

Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.