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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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TV Show Tackles Gender Issues In India, Becomes One Of The World’s Most Watched
New Delhi: A TV show that is shattering social taboos – from domestic violence and acid attacks to menstruation and child marriage – has become one of the most watched series in the world, attracting over 400 million viewers, the producer said. Scripted to challenge deep-rooted patriarchal attitudes and gender discrimination, “Main Kuch Bhi K...
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Obsessed About Having Son, Jaipur Mother Allegedly Stabbed Baby Girl 17 Times
On August 26, Neha Goyal suddenly screamed that her baby girl was missing, plunging the household of 13 in Jaipur into a state of panic.
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Mother Admits Killing Babies In One Of Germany's Worst Cases
A woman on trial in one of Germany's worst infanticide cases, involving eight dead babies, confessed to killing several of them but said she could not remember how many.
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Bodies of 'Probably' 7 Dead Babies Found in German Flat: Police
German police said today they had found the bodies of "probably seven" babies in an apartment after being alerted by a woman in the southern state of Bavaria.
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Woman suspected of killing five babies: German police
A 28-year-old woman in Germany killed her five infants shortly after giving birth to them in secret at home and in the woods, and hid their bodies because she worried her husband would leave her if she had any more children, authorities said Thursday.
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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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"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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TV Show Tackles Gender Issues In India, Becomes One Of The World’s Most Watched
New Delhi: A TV show that is shattering social taboos – from domestic violence and acid attacks to menstruation and child marriage – has become one of the most watched series in the world, attracting over 400 million viewers, the producer said. Scripted to challenge deep-rooted patriarchal attitudes and gender discrimination, “Main Kuch Bhi K...
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Obsessed About Having Son, Jaipur Mother Allegedly Stabbed Baby Girl 17 Times
On August 26, Neha Goyal suddenly screamed that her baby girl was missing, plunging the household of 13 in Jaipur into a state of panic.
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Mother Admits Killing Babies In One Of Germany's Worst Cases
A woman on trial in one of Germany's worst infanticide cases, involving eight dead babies, confessed to killing several of them but said she could not remember how many.
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Bodies of 'Probably' 7 Dead Babies Found in German Flat: Police
German police said today they had found the bodies of "probably seven" babies in an apartment after being alerted by a woman in the southern state of Bavaria.
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Woman suspected of killing five babies: German police
A 28-year-old woman in Germany killed her five infants shortly after giving birth to them in secret at home and in the woods, and hid their bodies because she worried her husband would leave her if she had any more children, authorities said Thursday.
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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.
