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"Girls Must Thrive, Not Just Survive": Top Court Judge On Worsening Sex Ratios
Supreme Court judge BV Nagarathna on Saturday expressed concern about the deteriorating sex ratios due to potential female infanticide and foeticide in certain states, stating that girls should not merely survive but thrive.
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ASHA Worker Allegedly Forces Daughter-In-Law To Miscarry Fearing 3rd Girl Child
Police here have registered a case against an ASHA worker and five others for allegedly forcing her pregnant daughter-in-law to miscarry over fear that a third girl child would be born, officials said on Wednesday.
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Delhi Man Takes Away Twin Daughters From Wife, Kills Them 2 Days After Birth
In a shocking incident in Delhi, a man allegedly killed and buried his twin daughters after they were discharged from hospital, the police said today. His family has been accused of harassing his wife for not giving birth to a son.
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Woman Allegedly Dumps Twin Granddaughters In Punjab Canal After Birth
The rampant practice of female infanticide continues to claim more lives even as the centre keeps on promoting its "Beti Bachao Beti Padhao programme. In a heartbreaking incident, a woman in Punjab's Bathinda allegedly dumped her twin granddaughters in a canal just two hours after birth.
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Newborn Girl's Body Found In Pond In Bengal, Family Members Arrested
The family members of a newborn girl in West Bengal's Purba Medinipur district have been arrested after her body was recovered from a nearby pond, police said on Wednesday.
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Uttar Pradesh Man Kills Daughter As He Wanted Son
Angry over the birth of a girl, a man and his family members allegedly killed his one-month-old daughter and later beat up his wife for protesting, police said Tuesday.
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Gurgaon Announces Rs 1 Lakh Reward For Providing Information On Female Infanticide
Gurgaon: While the child sex ratio in Gurgaon has bettered in the past few years, it is still lagging far behind other districts in Haryana. The administration, serious about improving it further, has launched a special drive to check pre-natal sex determination and female infanticide. A reward of Rs 1 lakh has been announced by the Gurgaon adminis...
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Another newborn girl's body found in Jaipur
In yet another shocking incident, a body of a newborn girl was found in a plot in a residential colony in Jaipur on Wednesday, a day after the corpse of a newborn girl was recovered from a dustbin, police said.
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New-born girl's body found in west Delhi garbage dump
In what appears to be a case of female infanticide, the body of a new-born girl was recovered from a dump in the national capital on Thursday. The body, discarded in a garbage dump in west Delhi's Bharat Nagar area, had been bundled into a polythene bag. The bag caught the attention of locals when street dogs started dragging it.
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No place for girls in Rajasthan?
Female infanticide or killing new-born girls after birth continues in some parts of Rajasthan even today. In three blocks in Jaisalmer district - Sam, Sankra and Jaisalmer - 54 new-born girls died in the last one year.
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A first for Punjab: Man sentenced to death for killing his daughter
It's a tale of tragedy but also of hope. Tragedy, because casual labourer Mukesh Kumar killed his 2-day old daughter in the presence of his wife. Hope, because Kumar's own wife had the courage to go to court to complain against his heinous act. What's more a trial court in the Sangrur district of Punjab has handed out the death sentence to the lab...
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India fourth most dangerous place for women: survey
The high number of female foeticide, infanticide and human trafficking prevalent in India has placed it as the fourth most dangerous place for women in the world, according to a survey.Afghanistan is the most dangerous place for women followed by Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan, India and Somalia in the survey conducted by Thomson Reuters' T...
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In Afghanistan, boys are prized and girls live the part
Six-year-old Mehran Rafaat is like many girls her age. She likes to be the center of attention. She is often frustrated when things do not go her way. Like her three older sisters, she is eager to discover the world outside the family's apartment in their middle-class neighborhood of Kabul.But when their mother, Azita Rafaat, a member of Parliament...
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NDTV impact: Centre to probe infanticide
After NDTV reported on baby girls being killed after social schemes are availed, the health ministry has sent a team to probe.
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The price of being a girl in Rajasthan
The desert districts of Rajasthan - Jaisalmer and Barmer - known for their colourful history of valour and honour, are now offering a sacrifice of a different kind. Newborn girls are being killed after birth.
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"Girls Must Thrive, Not Just Survive": Top Court Judge On Worsening Sex Ratios
Supreme Court judge BV Nagarathna on Saturday expressed concern about the deteriorating sex ratios due to potential female infanticide and foeticide in certain states, stating that girls should not merely survive but thrive.
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ASHA Worker Allegedly Forces Daughter-In-Law To Miscarry Fearing 3rd Girl Child
Police here have registered a case against an ASHA worker and five others for allegedly forcing her pregnant daughter-in-law to miscarry over fear that a third girl child would be born, officials said on Wednesday.
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Delhi Man Takes Away Twin Daughters From Wife, Kills Them 2 Days After Birth
In a shocking incident in Delhi, a man allegedly killed and buried his twin daughters after they were discharged from hospital, the police said today. His family has been accused of harassing his wife for not giving birth to a son.
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Woman Allegedly Dumps Twin Granddaughters In Punjab Canal After Birth
The rampant practice of female infanticide continues to claim more lives even as the centre keeps on promoting its "Beti Bachao Beti Padhao programme. In a heartbreaking incident, a woman in Punjab's Bathinda allegedly dumped her twin granddaughters in a canal just two hours after birth.
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Newborn Girl's Body Found In Pond In Bengal, Family Members Arrested
The family members of a newborn girl in West Bengal's Purba Medinipur district have been arrested after her body was recovered from a nearby pond, police said on Wednesday.
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Uttar Pradesh Man Kills Daughter As He Wanted Son
Angry over the birth of a girl, a man and his family members allegedly killed his one-month-old daughter and later beat up his wife for protesting, police said Tuesday.
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Gurgaon Announces Rs 1 Lakh Reward For Providing Information On Female Infanticide
Gurgaon: While the child sex ratio in Gurgaon has bettered in the past few years, it is still lagging far behind other districts in Haryana. The administration, serious about improving it further, has launched a special drive to check pre-natal sex determination and female infanticide. A reward of Rs 1 lakh has been announced by the Gurgaon adminis...
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Another newborn girl's body found in Jaipur
In yet another shocking incident, a body of a newborn girl was found in a plot in a residential colony in Jaipur on Wednesday, a day after the corpse of a newborn girl was recovered from a dustbin, police said.
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New-born girl's body found in west Delhi garbage dump
In what appears to be a case of female infanticide, the body of a new-born girl was recovered from a dump in the national capital on Thursday. The body, discarded in a garbage dump in west Delhi's Bharat Nagar area, had been bundled into a polythene bag. The bag caught the attention of locals when street dogs started dragging it.
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No place for girls in Rajasthan?
Female infanticide or killing new-born girls after birth continues in some parts of Rajasthan even today. In three blocks in Jaisalmer district - Sam, Sankra and Jaisalmer - 54 new-born girls died in the last one year.
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A first for Punjab: Man sentenced to death for killing his daughter
It's a tale of tragedy but also of hope. Tragedy, because casual labourer Mukesh Kumar killed his 2-day old daughter in the presence of his wife. Hope, because Kumar's own wife had the courage to go to court to complain against his heinous act. What's more a trial court in the Sangrur district of Punjab has handed out the death sentence to the lab...
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India fourth most dangerous place for women: survey
The high number of female foeticide, infanticide and human trafficking prevalent in India has placed it as the fourth most dangerous place for women in the world, according to a survey.Afghanistan is the most dangerous place for women followed by Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan, India and Somalia in the survey conducted by Thomson Reuters' T...
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In Afghanistan, boys are prized and girls live the part
Six-year-old Mehran Rafaat is like many girls her age. She likes to be the center of attention. She is often frustrated when things do not go her way. Like her three older sisters, she is eager to discover the world outside the family's apartment in their middle-class neighborhood of Kabul.But when their mother, Azita Rafaat, a member of Parliament...
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NDTV impact: Centre to probe infanticide
After NDTV reported on baby girls being killed after social schemes are availed, the health ministry has sent a team to probe.
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The price of being a girl in Rajasthan
The desert districts of Rajasthan - Jaisalmer and Barmer - known for their colourful history of valour and honour, are now offering a sacrifice of a different kind. Newborn girls are being killed after birth.
