Researchers confirmed that the Y chromosome, crucial for male sex determination, is progressively shrinking and might disappear within mill...

Details of the decline were disclosed in the recently released 'Annual Report on Registration of Births and Deaths in Delhi-2023' by the Di...

Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma in her judgement said, "Sex-determination-based abortion is a powerful method of perpetuating gender inequalit...

Section 22 of the PCPNDT Act pertains to prohibition of advertisements relating to pre-natal determination of sex and punishment for contra...

The payout will be in three instalments – first at the stage of a successful operation, second at the time of appearing before the court as...

According to the report, despite the NHM's augmentation of human resources in states, shortage of service providers exists in most of the s...

Amarinder said his government was fully committed to protecting and securing the girl child and centres found conducting such illegal prena...

A 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...

According to some media reports, the couple visited a doctor in London for a check-up and the sex determination recently.

The bench in their harsh observations accused these intermediaries of having no respect for Indian law which bans sex determination tests a...

During the hearing, Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar said that companies were violating the PCPNDT Act by displaying advertisements on sex de...

Gandhi said it was a fact that even a police constable has the clout to force pathologists to inform him whether a lady is giving birth to ...

Vij today donned the hat of Sholay's iconic character Gabbar Singh to drive home his point on illegal sex determination.

The court had directed Google, Yahoo and Microsoft to strictly comply with Indian laws and block advertisements on sex determination of a f...

Even as the country is grappling with the problem of bias against girl child, e-market places like Amazon and Flipkart are found selling bo...

If any advertisement existed on any search engine, these should be "withdrawn forthwith" by the search engines, the apex court said categor...

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...