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50 men disguised as grooms mounted horseback to the Collector's office in Maharashtra to look for brides. Here's whyTo emphasise the gender disparity in Maharashtra's Solapur, bachelors dressed up in bridal attire, mounted horses, and marched in a parade.- Can Aadhaar bring an end to female foeticide? Experts for linking personal medical records To UIDAIWhile penalisation has been the basic strategy to tackle the issue, an alternative could be sought through digitisation of medical records ...
- 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...
- Sex ratio increases from 933 in 2001 to 943 in 2011: GovernmentThe sex ratio in the country has shown a growth from 933 females in 2001 to 943 in 2011 for every 1,000 males, the government said today.
- 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.
- IMA calls for urgent modification of PCPNDT ActCalling for urgent modification of PCPNDT Act to end its ambiguous interpretation, the IMA today said the act in its current form deprives ...
- 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...
- India ranked at 115 on women empowerment scale: SurveyIndia has been ranked at a poor 115 by a global survey which looked into the level of economical empowerment of women in 128 countries.
- Separatists, terrorists involved in HR abuses in India: USSeparatists 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: Government calls emergency meet to discuss anti-feticide lawThe Union health ministry registered only 107 cases of female feticide under Section 315 and 316 of IPC in 2010.
- Punjab to recruit medical specialistsThe Punjab government would soon employ 155 medical specialists in the state for which the Punjab Public Service Commission has been told t...
- Gender equality integral to development: AgaIn this regard, CII has been conducting workshops to create awareness and sensitise all.
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