PANAJI: A serial killer could be behind the deaths of the two women whose semi-burnt bodies had been recovered over the past couple of days, but killings are not related to the murder of the four people fished out of the Ourem creek on Wednesday, the police said on Thursday.
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TNN 16 October 2009, 06:10am IST.
MAPUSA: A 14-year-old girl committed suicide by hanging herself to death in her house at Bela Vista Waddo, Tivim. The police said that the teen ended her life when her parents had gone to work. When the parents returned home in the afternoon, they saw their daughter hanging from the ceiling.
PANAJI: Goa continued to reel under a spate of mysterious deaths with more bodies being recovered on Wednesday. The total number of bodies recovered since Sunday now stands at 10.
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PANAJI/VASCO/MAPUSA: The discovery of more bodies of women in Bardez taluka on Tuesday has baffled the police. While two partially burnt bodies were found on Monday, another body in a similar state was discovered on Tuesday. Besides, the police also found a fourth body with the head smashed on Tuesday.
EVERY child has the inherent right to love, to be loved and enjoy a decent family life where he can grow under the loving care of his parents. But it is sad that almost a large number of 18 million destitute and abandoned children are denied of this parental care. If the reports are to be relied each year around 50,000 children are abandoned by the parents and unwed mothers. The situation has not improved even though India is emerging as a major economic power. According to the United Nations Human Development report India has the highest infant mortality rate in the world. It has slipped from rank 128 to rank 134 in 2009 according to the report.
In this background adoption of these children has attained wider proportion. Adoption is being looked as a great help in alleviation of the misery of these children. For these children the adoptive parents are the worthy substitutes for the biological parents. But this has its own constraints. While the government is yet to come out with a proper adoption policy, trafficking of these kids has also been a matter of concern. These two have been major impediments in helping these kids.
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PANAJI: The department of women and child development (DWCD) on Monday filed an affidavit and apprised the high court of Bombay at Goa about the steps taken for improving living conditions of the inmates of Apna Ghar, a children’s protective home at Merces.
DWCD director Sanjiv Gadkar filed the affidavit in reply to a list of recommendations and immediate measures to be undertaken by the government as submitted before the court by amicus curiae Sandesh Padiyar on June 22.
The affidavit has been filed following a suo motu petition regarding the unhygienic conditions in which children at the Apna Ghar were forced to live