Rise in sex crimes due to ‘sex starvation’ among men, Madras High Court asks Centre, stateThe HC said that the offences had to be analysed and examined from psychological and sociological angles. The judge suo motu impleaded the ...
Poor sex ratio: Put birth record of girls online, says Supreme Court to states, UTsA bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra directed all state governments and union territories to keep records of all births of boys and girls ...
Google, Microsoft, Yahoo to auto-block words on gender selection testsThe court has been dealing with a PIL which demanded that these search engines either comply with local laws banning such tests or wind up ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day speeches in 2014, 2015In 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that “termite of corruption” will be rooted out; important steps to be taken to unearth bla...
Rajasthan shines out in PM Narendra Modi’s Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao campaignThe state, which was in the bottom half of India’s child sex ratio rankings in the 2011 Census, has scripted a comeback and is bringing bac...
Supreme Court slams Google, Yahoo and Microsoft for sex selection kit adsThe bench in their harsh observations accused these intermediaries of having no respect for Indian law which bans sex determination tests a...
Ban may go, sex test on fetus could be mandatory: Maneka Gandhi"Those registering the sex of the fetus will have to produce a medical certificate or cite the reason for termination of pregnancy," Maneka...
1st time in 10 years, Haryana child sex ratio crosses 900Prime Minister Narendra Modi had launched the `Beti Bachao Beti Padhao' programme in Panipat on January 22, 2015.
Haryana government likely to fix 12th standard as education bar civic pollsElections to 42 of the total 78 urban bodies will be held after the panchayat polls to be held on January 10, 17 and 24.
Supreme Court directs Google, Yahoo, Microsoft to block sex determination adsIf any advertisement existed on any search engine, these should be "withdrawn forthwith" by the search engines, the apex court said categor...
More girls being born, but fewer surviving, Census office data showsChild sex ratio, that is, the number of girls in the 0-4 year age group for every 1000 boys in the same age group has declined from 914 to ...
For Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda, khaps are like NGOs, RWAsKhap panchayats are akin to Gurgaon's resident welfare associations. That's the definition of the self-styled caste panchayats given by Har...
Maharashtra tops abandoned babies list: National Crime Record BureauMaharashtra has the highest number of abandoned newborns in the country and is placed sixth in cases of infanticide and feticide.
- Separatists, terrorists involved in HR abuses in India: US
Separatists and terrorists in the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir and northeast along with the Maoists committed serious human rights ab...
- Census of India 2011: Bias against girl child despite awareness in Gujarat, Maharashtra & Bengal
Despite awareness drives and campaigns the bias against the girl child remains just as deep-rooted in Gujarat.
- Census of India 2011: Government calls emergency meet to discuss anti-feticide law
The Union health ministry registered only 107 cases of female feticide under Section 315 and 316 of IPC in 2010.
- Punjab to recruit medical specialists
The Punjab government would soon employ 155 medical specialists in the state for which the Punjab Public Service Commission has been told t...