India grapples with a deeply entrenched bias against female children, as evidenced by declining sex ratios in Delhi and Haryana. Despite pr...

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

The primary concern discussed at the meeting was the declining child sex ratio (CSR) and sex ratio at birth (SRB) in the country, indicativ...

A research paper published in the international journal ‘Studies in Family Planning’ showed that SRB generally increased, ranging from 107....

BBBP scheme is one of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's pet projects and was launched by him in January, 2015 in Panipat, Haryana.

Researchers from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, and Universite de Paris, France, noted that ther...

The reasons given by these states for not supplying the data are lack of computerisation and governance issues.

An official spokesperson said that in 2015 the SRB was 871 girls for 1000 boys and in 2016, it was 900 girls for 1000 boys.

There are other markers of increasing independence, with the percentage of women getting married or becoming pregnant at a young age fallin...

Khattar said that the state had, after the launch of 'Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao' programme by Modi from Haryana, accepted the challenge of i...

He said that none of the districts is below 850 mark and 12 districts in the state have recorded sex ratio of 900 or 900 plus in 2016.

Maneka emphasised on the need for compulsory registration of pregnant women by village panchayats to curb female foeticide.

A glimpse into this intriguing decision-making process undertaken by about 2.5 crore parents every year is provided by Census 2011 data.

The national capital continues to languish among the worst in terms of sex ratio in the country with 896 females to 1,000 males as per the ...

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 ...

Immigrant mothers in Britain could be aborting unwanted girls as boys are considered preferable for cultural, religious or economic reasons...

The sex ratio at birth among Indians and other Asian communities in the US is much lower than among the white and the black communities.