The Review stated that migration from within and outside the state to urban areas was the key reason for the decline in sex ration there.

PM Narendra Modi voiced concern over the declining sex ratio in 100 districts of the country, with situation being "more serious" in Haryana

The data shows that only four states convicted 13 people in 2013. In 2012, eight persons were punished by three states and in 2011, 11 peop...

The data showed that the sex ratio declined as the age of the mothers increased, falling from a sex ratio of 927 and 897 in the 20-24 and t...

Government's 'Beti Bachao Beti Padhao Scheme' to improve the child sex ratio will be launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on January 22.

Child 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 ...

Biggest for Rae Bareli is that female literacy has gone up from 21% 56% in , sex ratio has gone down from 952 women per 1,000 men in to 926.

The declining sex ratio in the country was a cause for alarm, Union Minister of State for Tourism K Chiranjeevi said here today.

According to the 2011 Census, the number of females per 1000 males in Haryana in 2011 stands at 879 followed by J&K 889 female.

PM Singh has written to all Chief Ministers asking them act in a swift and concerted manner to check pre-natal sex determination.

Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said MCI should ensure immediate suspension or cancelling of registration of doctors violating sex determi...

Gujarat has managed to halt the speedy decline in child sex ratio, but it still has a long way to go.

As India's Census Commissioner, the 1985 batch IAS officer of the Tamil Nadu cadre headed the country’s 15th census, which deployed 2.7 mil...

India has added another Brazil to its population in the last 10 years despite population growth slowing down.

The consistently declining child sex ratio - i.e. the number of female children per 1000 male children in the 0 to 6 age group, is a testim...

Indicating a continuing preference for boys in society, the child sex ratio in India has dropped to 914 females against 1,000 males.

The study covered four Asian countries India, China, Nepal and Vietnam where sex ratio imbalances were alarming.