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6-Hour-Old Girl, Buried Alive, With Umbilical Cord Intact, Is Recovering
A baby — believed to no more than six hours old – was rescued after she had been left to die in a shallow sand pit in a field in Odisha, when a passer-by spotted her feet poking through the ground on Saturday. The baby, found in the Jajpur district, was rushed to hospital where she is under observation, officials said. “She is doing fine and ...
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As Income Rises, Fewer Girls Are Born In India, Shows Study
By Sanjukta Nair/ IndiaSpend India’s sex ratio at birth – the number of girls born alive for every 1,000 boys – declined over the last 65 years from 946 to 887 even as per capita income increased nearly 10 times, according to recently released government data. India’s child sex ratio, or the number of girls below six per 1,000 boys, too has...
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India has the highest number of stillbirths, says report
After the explosive report on Delhi's water being contaminated with the super bug, British medical journal 'The Lancet' has again highlighted India, this time in a survey on stillbirths. The report says India has the highest number of stillbirths in the world. In 2009, more than six lakh children were born dead in India. In fact, the study says Ind...
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6-Hour-Old Girl, Buried Alive, With Umbilical Cord Intact, Is Recovering
A baby — believed to no more than six hours old – was rescued after she had been left to die in a shallow sand pit in a field in Odisha, when a passer-by spotted her feet poking through the ground on Saturday. The baby, found in the Jajpur district, was rushed to hospital where she is under observation, officials said. “She is doing fine and ...
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As Income Rises, Fewer Girls Are Born In India, Shows Study
By Sanjukta Nair/ IndiaSpend India’s sex ratio at birth – the number of girls born alive for every 1,000 boys – declined over the last 65 years from 946 to 887 even as per capita income increased nearly 10 times, according to recently released government data. India’s child sex ratio, or the number of girls below six per 1,000 boys, too has...
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India has the highest number of stillbirths, says report
After the explosive report on Delhi's water being contaminated with the super bug, British medical journal 'The Lancet' has again highlighted India, this time in a survey on stillbirths. The report says India has the highest number of stillbirths in the world. In 2009, more than six lakh children were born dead in India. In fact, the study says Ind...
