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Cradle in every village - to save the girl child
If someone casts her away, there will be others to cradle her. By October this year, cradles will be set up in 110 locations in 80 villages of Shrigonda sub-district in Maharashtra to enable new parents to 'drop' a female infant if she is unwanted - instead of snuffing out her life.The infant would be immediately picked up by a local policeman, a v...
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This summer, Kashmir to fight murderers of another kind
Newspaper advertisements, TV messages, raids on ultrasound clinics, door-to-door campaigns are underway. Shamed by the dismal sex ratio revealed by the latest census report, the Jammu and Kashmir government is trying every trick in the book to save the girl child in the state.The census report, released in March, reveals there are only 859 fe...
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Cradle in every village - to save the girl child
If someone casts her away, there will be others to cradle her. By October this year, cradles will be set up in 110 locations in 80 villages of Shrigonda sub-district in Maharashtra to enable new parents to 'drop' a female infant if she is unwanted - instead of snuffing out her life.The infant would be immediately picked up by a local policeman, a v...
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This summer, Kashmir to fight murderers of another kind
Newspaper advertisements, TV messages, raids on ultrasound clinics, door-to-door campaigns are underway. Shamed by the dismal sex ratio revealed by the latest census report, the Jammu and Kashmir government is trying every trick in the book to save the girl child in the state.The census report, released in March, reveals there are only 859 fe...
