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Sex ratio to improve to 952 women per 1,000 men by 2036: Govt StudyIndia's sex ratio is projected to increase to 952 women per 1000 men by 2036, indicating a positive trend in gender equality. The populatio...- Survey shows sex ratio falling further to 896 in 3 years to 2017The skewed sex ratio had plunged further to 896 for the three years from 2015-17 from 898 in 2014-2016.
- What is really going on behind Surat's high-tech, labour-intensive diamond industry?The diamond market is deserted. Young people are now moving into the textile industry. In the meantime, the world’s luxury seekers keep Sur...
- Body set up to deal with sex determination information on internet: Government to Supreme CourtSection 22 of the PCPNDT Act pertains to prohibition of advertisements relating to pre-natal determination of sex and punishment for contra...
- SC raps Google, Yahoo for failing to check pre-birth test adsDuring the hearing, Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar said that companies were violating the PCPNDT Act by displaying advertisements on sex de...
- Modi government looks to US technology for increasing domestic cows, milk outputThe Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fishing last week also asked ICAR to create India’s own sex-sorted semen technology.
- Despite skewed sex ratio, conviction for female foeticide rareThe 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...
- Mann ki Baat: Narendra Modi says 'touched' by Barack Obama gifting Vivekananda bookUS President Barack Obama said India and the US had much in common like being great democracies and innovative economies.
- Life of US President Barack Obama is an inspiration: PM Narendra ModiCo-hosting 'Mann ki Baat' radio programme with Obama, Modi said, Obama's "life is in itself an inspiration. The way he has brought up his t...
- Female foeticide a matter of shame: PM Narendra ModiHe invited people to share on 'MyGov' website their ideas on 'Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao', a programme he is laying emphasis on.
- Declining sex ratio cause for concern: K ChiranjeeviThe declining sex ratio in the country was a cause for alarm, Union Minister of State for Tourism K Chiranjeevi said here today.
- Why equities are treated like daughters and gold and real estate like sonsThere is an uncanny similarity in the way daughters are treated in our patriarchal society and how the average Indian investor looks at sto...
- What makes Haryana the land of social contrastsTall tales of wealth creation spurred by proximity to Delhi apart, Haryana is home to a series of bad news reeking of a feudal social order.
- India deadliest place in world for girl childIndia is the most dangerous place in the world to be a baby girl. Data shows that an Indian girl child aged 1-5 years is 75% more likely to...
- 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.
- Census of India 2011: Child sex ratio drops to lowest since IndependenceIndicating a continuing preference for boys in society, the child sex ratio in India has dropped to 914 females against 1,000 males.
- Sharp decline in child sex ratio in India: UNFPAThe study covered four Asian countries India, China, Nepal and Vietnam where sex ratio imbalances were alarming.
- Punjabi NRIs too killing girlsThe hostility to the girl child that’s such a tragic feature of life in India doesn’t abate even abroad.
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