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How ultrasound plays critical role in healthcare and why PC-PNDT Act deserves careful reformIndia's PC-PNDT Act, enacted to curb female foeticide, has had a modest impact on sex ratios over 30 years. While the law's intent is valid...- 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...
- Centre to seek suggestions from states to amend PCPNDT Act to address sex ratio imbalanceThe Centre will also seek suggestions from states for amending the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act, 1994, f...
- When adopting a child in India, most parents prefer girls to boysIn FY21-22, 1,674 girls, or 30% more girls, were adopted in India compared to 1,276 boys. The figures for FY20-21 were 1,856 girls versus 1...
- NFHS survey finds more women than men in India"With this, we can say India moves in the league of the developed countries - as the sex ratio crosses 1000," a health ministry official sa...
- Market Movers: What changed for D-Street while you were sleepingAsian shares started the week on a softer note after posting their first weekly decline since early June ahead of GDP data from China.
- CAG rips into famed Gujarat growth modelThe Comptroller & Auditor General has also slammed the Gujarat government for the high level of financial indiscipline and poor spending.
- 10 top quotes of PM Narendra Modi’s maiden Independence Day address to the nation'Be it caste or communal violence, they stall the growth of the nation. Let us affirm that we will be free from these tensions. '
- NRIs fare no better on sex ratio frontThe sex ratio at birth among Indians and other Asian communities in the US is much lower than among the white and the black communities.
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