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Boss denied you a deserving salary hike despite good performance? Check your rights under new Labour CodePrivate sector employees in India face limited legal recourse against appraisal discrimination, especially when it's not gender-based. Whil...- No female foeticide, knowing sex or notIMA president R V Asokan suggests legalising prenatal gender detection tests. He believes the ban impacts doctors more than addressing soci...
- 'Demanding sex detection': IMA President advocates for legalising prenatal gender testsDr. RV Asokan, president of the Indian Medical Association, advocates for legalizing prenatal gender determination tests, arguing that the ...
- SC seeks responses on plea for implementation of law preventing gender detection of foetusThe Supreme Court has requested a response from all states on a plea for the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act (PCPNDT...
- SC grants Centre four weeks to respond to plea against age restriction for conducting pre-natal diagnostic testsThe top court posted the plea, filed by advocate Meera Kaura Patel, for hearing after eight weeks. In its October 17, 2022 order, the bench...
- SC to examine validity of age restriction for conducting tests before abortionSupreme Court of India has agreed to examine the validity of the age restriction necessary to consider before conducting abortion-related t...
- Protect Beti Bachao scheme with proper scrutiny: House panelThe Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao (BBBP) scheme was launched in 2014 to address a decline in child sex ratio and related issues of empowerment of...
- SC notice to Centre on plea against guidelines excluding transgenders from being blood donorsThe plea has also sought striking down of the clause of general criteria under blood donor selection criteria of the guidelines for blood d...
- Selective abortion in India may lead to 6.8 million fewer girls being born by 2030: StudyResearchers from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, and Universite de Paris, France, noted that ther...
- Cabinet okays Bill to regulate Rs 3,000 crore fertility industryThe bill proposes a fine of up to Rs 10 lakh for anyone indulging in sale of embryo or trafficking at the first instance, and jail term of ...
- Supreme Court asks Google, Yahoo, Microsoft to prohibit ads on sex-determination testsA citizen has a right to access to internet. We are on a concept of pre-censorship. Court has to be very cautious, a bench led by Justice D...
- Government's one year in office: Mega battle plans for Modi’s Beti Bachao dreamThe genesis of the government's Beti bachao beti padhao (BBBP) scheme was this: Giving girls a chance to be born, to be loved and to grow.
- Haryana government to organise three day training programme on 'Beti Bachao Beti Padhao'To ensure effective implementation of 'Beti Bachao Beti Padhao' programme, Haryana govt will organise a 3-day state level training programm...
- Rajasthan fared poorly in implementing prohibiting pre-natal sex selection law: CAGAlso the same was not being provided to a large number of adolescent girls, the report added.
- Cuddalore among 100 districts under 'Beti Bachao Beti Padhao'The MWCD has finalized the operational guidelines, templates for district action plan and standardized training module for the scheme.
- PM Modi to launch 'Beti Bachao Beti Padhao Scheme' on January 22Government's ambitious 'Beti Bachao Beti Padhao Scheme' to improve the child sex ratio (CSR) will be launched by Prime Minister Narendra Mo...
- 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 ...
- Don't advertise pre-natal sex selection technology: Microsoft tells Supreme CourtMicrosoft submitted before SC that it never advertised any pre-natal sex selection technologies on its website in violation of Indian laws.
- Telangana to replicate 'best practices' of GujaratSunil Sharma, Telangana's Secretary, Women, Children, Disabled & Senior Citizens (Schemes) Department, recently went to Gujarat.
- High Court seeks to know basis of charge of gender test against Shahrukh KhanDeshpande had in her complaint alleged the child's gender had been determined before birth, thereby violating the sections of the Act.
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