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

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

The Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fishing last week also asked ICAR to create India’s own sex-sorted semen technology.

The 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...

US President Barack Obama said India and the US had much in common like being great democracies and innovative economies.

Co-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...

He invited people to share on 'MyGov' website their ideas on 'Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao', a programme he is laying emphasis on.

The declining sex ratio in the country was a cause for alarm, Union Minister of State for Tourism K Chiranjeevi said here today.

There is an uncanny similarity in the way daughters are treated in our patriarchal society and how the average Indian investor looks at sto...

Tall 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 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...

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.

Indicating a continuing preference for boys in society, the child sex ratio in India has dropped to 914 females against 1,000 males.

The study covered four Asian countries India, China, Nepal and Vietnam where sex ratio imbalances were alarming.

The hostility to the girl child that’s such a tragic feature of life in India doesn’t abate even abroad.