Sex Ratio

Sex ratio in Andhra Pradesh improved since 2001

Press Trust of India | Friday May 3, 2013

Surfacing among the top five performing states in terms of sex ratio, Andhra Pradesh has recorded 993 women per 1000 men in 2011 census compared to 978 women in 2001.

Andhra Pradesh government shuts down 42 sex determination centres

Press Trust of India | Monday March 4, 2013

Andhra Pradesh government has shut down 42 sex determination centres recently to check the declining child sex ratio in the state, Andhra Pradesh Health and Family Welfare Minister D L Ravindra Reddy told reporters on Monday.

In a small Pune hospital, it pays to have a baby girl

Reported by Imtiaz Jaleel | Tuesday February 19, 2013

Over the last one year, Dr Ganesh Rakh has seen 144 girls born at the 20-bed multispeciality hospital he owns in Pune. Their parents were not charged a penny for the deliveries.

Fewer daughters for India's doctors, suggests shocking report

Tejas Mehta | Thursday February 14, 2013

It is a well-established fact that many doctors across the country have been caught promoting and pushing for gender-selection in favour of the male child. A lucrative, illegal and unethical business. But are they also practising this in their person...

Delhi's sex ratio increases, still below national ratio

Press Trust of India | Tuesday November 20, 2012

Delhi's sex ratio has increased from 821 in 2001 census to 866 in 2011 but it is still below the national ratio, according to data released by Delhi Government which puts the city's population at 1.67 crore.

I hang head in shame: Haryana chief minister's wife

Press Trust of India | Wednesday October 17, 2012

Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda's wife Asha Hooda on Wednesday said her "head hangs in shame" when the state, a frontrunner in many areas, is pointed out for negative things that include adverse sex ratio and recent incidents of crimes a...

Mahapanchayat in Haryana: Slap murder charges for female foeticide

NDTV Correspondent | Saturday July 14, 2012

A big step seems to have been taken in possibly correcting Haryana's skewed sex ratio. The Mahapanchayat or meeting of village councils that congregated in Jind today has found unanimity and proposed that female foeticide should be treated on par wit...

Mahapanchayat in Haryana on female foeticide: Over 100 women to attend

NDTV Correspondent | Saturday July 14, 2012

A Mahapanchayat or meeting of village councils on female foeticide and related issues is being held today in Jind district of Haryana. The district is notorious for its skewed sex ratio where males far outnumber females. The village body is meeting ...

Assam launches vision document for women and child welfare

Press Trust Of India | Tuesday June 12, 2012

The Assam government on Tuesday launched an ambitious scheme which targets to achieve 16 goals for women and child welfare by 2016, including reducing the infant and maternal mortality rates, improving sex ratio and improving enrollment of the girl c...

Maharashtra: Woman dies after abortion, doctor arrested

NDTV Correspondent | Saturday May 19, 2012

A doctor has been arrested in the Beed district of Maharashtra for allegedly carrying out an abortion that led to the killing of a pregnant woman.

Female foeticide: Woman doctor caught while she was allegedly aborting girl child in Haryana

NDTV Correspondent | Tuesday May 15, 2012

In Haryana's Yamuna Nagar area, a Delhi suburb, a woman doctor has been arrested after she was allegedly caught aborting a girl child during a raid conducted by health department officials.

Satyamen Jayate effect: Maharashtra wants Aamir Khan to help save the girl child

Mid-Day.com | Friday May 11, 2012

Aamir Khan is basking in the afterglow of the overwhelming response to his TV debut, and the state government seems desperate to piggyback on his efforts, in hope that his star power will work where their political powers failed, and help reverse the...

Woman allegedly strangled to death by husband for giving birth to girl

NDTV Correspondent | Tuesday April 17, 2012

India's shameful and sordid story of unwanted daughters continues. In the latest incident, a woman in Amritsar was allegedly strangled to death by her husband after she gave birth to a baby girl for the third time.

New-born girl found abandoned near sewer line in Udaipur

Indo-Asian News Service | Sunday April 15, 2012

A new-born girl was found abandoned on the edge of a sewer line in a deserted area in Rajasthan's Udaipur city early on Saturday morning, police said. The infant girl, who appears to have been disowned by her parents, has been adopted by an NGO."Some morning joggers heard the cries of a baby. They s...

Newborn girl's body found in dustbin

Indo-Asian News Service | Wednesday March 28, 2012

The body of a newborn girl was found in a dustbin in Jaipur on Tuesday, bringing to fore the plight of the girl child in a state that suffers from a skewed sex ratio.