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With two out of every three children, a majority studying in schools, reported being physically abused in India, a child rights organization Friday called for immediate implementation of the proposed safer schools guideline in the country.

India has a legislation prohibiting child marriage, but latest household surveys indicate that 47 percent of women, who are now aged 20-24 years, were married before the legal age of 18, a Unicef report released Friday said.

For the first time in Madhya Pradesh, a clutch of children released the Unicef State of the World Children Report 2009 here Friday, praising the efforts of the government for their survival, care and protection but also calling for more focus.

It's nothing short of a Bollywood love story. India's Zubair Khan and Bangladesh's Shazia Zarin met on Facebook, fell in love, she fled from home, they got married and are expecting a child. Now the girl's millionaire businessman father is seeking her deportation, and the desperate couple is pleading with President Pratibha Patil and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to intervene.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Leader of Opposition L.K. Advani and Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily are expected to meet Friday evening to finalise who India's new chief information commissioner will be.

Delhi Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit Friday launched the 'Time for Change' campaign against child labour and asked police to proactively take action against offenders.

Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Friday launched a website that will have information on all lost children staying in children's homes in the capital.

Progress on child issues is slow even though India has accomplished a great deal in ensuring the rights of children almost two decades after it ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Unicef India representative Karin Holshof said Friday.

Sugarcane stems and broken dustbins at Janpath market in the heart of the capital Friday bore testimony to the vandalism by farmers, a day after nearly 30,000 of them descended here from Uttar Pradesh to protest the new sugarcane pricing policy.

Till a few years ago Dalits in Alwar, Rajasthan were employed in inhumane manual scavenging practices. But thanks to social activism and NGO Sulabh International, the town was Thursday declared free from the illegal practice.