Advika

18.6% Of Women In 20-24 Yrs Age Group Being Married Off Before 18 in 2023-24, Compared To 20.5% In 2019-20

The complainant told the panel that she had sent an email requesting a refund after her daughter decided to discontinue but it went unanswered

While most 18 month-old babies are still trying to increase their newfound vocabulary from the staple ‘ma’ and ‘pa’ words, baby advika is rattling off names of 26 countries, their currencies and even reading words in English and Marathi written by her mother.

Model, singer, and actress advika Bharadwaj is one of the many artists in the entertainment industry, who had just started working in showbiz when the industry came to a halt due to the first wave of Covid-19 pandemic.

advika Bale knows the currencies of 26 countries, can identify the seven wonders of the world and their nations and translate the names of animals from English to Marathi. No mean feat for the average adult, the achievement is all in a day’s play for the 18-month-old.

A five-year-old girl from a private school in the city bagged the gold medal in the Science Olympiad Foundation's (SOF) International English Olympiad exam held by the British Council in New Delhi.

Who says you need to be an adult to be an entrepreneur? Two 11-year-olds from a Goregaon housing complex, younger siblings in tow, pooled in their private collection of storybooks and started a library in the building garage.

Popular comedian Chandan Prabhakar who is currently seen in The Kapil Sharma Show playing the role of Raju Chaiwala is a doting father in real life.

TV's ace comedian Chandan Prabhakar now knows the reason behind his happiness, and it is none other than his baby girl advika.

advika Sharma and Sudeep Chahar from Rajasthan have advanced to the main draw of the National Sub-Junior Badminton Tournament. The duo secured their spot after winning a tough three-game match in the qualifying round held in Jaipur. Several other Rajasthan players also won their matches to progress in the tournament.

A 47-year-old man living in a flat on Monoharpukur Road near Deshapriya Park allegedly murdered his wife and critically injured his daughter after an argument on Saturday evening.

In Berhampur, the Gajapati district administration recently declared 594 more villages and 11 panchayats in the tribaldominated district as free from child marriage. These 1250 out of 1619 villages, 27 out of 149 panchayats and Kashinagar block are free from this social malaise. The status was accorded after Gajapati collector Lingraj Panda approved the list at Paralakhemundi recently. These villages have been declared as childmarriage free following the fulfillment all criteria laid down by the government to be eligible for the tag. Some of the criteria are no child marriage solemnised in the villages in the last two years, the village-level child protection committee meeting regularly, and the use of the advika app by most adolescent girls. The state government launched advika a special programme to connect adolescent girls with government schemes before a village is declared childmarriage free. The district-level officials working to end child marriage have to visit the village and verify their documents. They also have to discuss it with the villagers.

The women and child development department has decided to hold weekly phone or video conversations with adolescent girls who are beneficiaries of different government schemes to take their feedback on the services provided to them.

A baby with a blockage in one of her heart valves recently underwent valve repair within six hours of birth at a private hospital in Delhi. Doctors said it was a challenge as organs and tissues of an infant are very fragile.

Around 95% villages in the tribal-dominated Gajapati district have been declared child-marriage free after the administration announced 309 more villages, 66 panchayats and four blocks of the district free from the menace on Thursday. Jagannath Saraka, scheduled caste (SC) and scheduled tribe (ST) development minister, who hoisted the national flag at Paralakhemundi on Republic Day on Thursday, declared the new blocks, panchayats and villages child-marriage free.

The 47-year-old resident of Manoharpukur Road, who had killed his wife and critically injured his daughter after an argument on Saturday evening, told cops that he was unhappy as he had to do everything at his “wife’s command” and listen to “all the demands of his in-laws.”

Odisha on Thursday declared Gajapati, a tribal-dominated district in southern part of the state, child-marriage free, achieving the feat for a second district after Ganjam last year.