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Monday, November 4, 2024
TopicCentral Adoption Resource Authority (CARA)

Topic: Central Adoption Resource Authority (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.  

No link between marriage, motherhood — why more single women are opting for adoptions 

The number of adoption applications from single women has gone up to 589 in 2018-2019 from 495 in 2017-2018, according to govt data. 

Year since Indian child’s death in US, govt drags feet on punishing adoption agency

Sherin Mathews, aged three years old, allegedly died after an assault by her Indian-American adoptive father

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Royal Enfield bikes are the new rage in Bangladesh. What happens to ‘boycott India’ now

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Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

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Indian firms sanctioned by US didn’t violate laws, says MEA. Hyderabad firm that supplied to Army on list

Among 19 Indian firms sanctioned by US Treasury Dept was Lokesh Machines Ltd accused of coordinating with 'Russian defence procurement agent to import Italy-origin CNC machines'.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.