Selective Abortion

Dark clouds and the threat of rain caused doubts for England captain Joe Root in choosing his side for the opening Test in Sri Lanka starting on Thursday.

Chandigarh: Haryana has been infamous for having worst sex ratio in India. However, the state has shown a great improvement recently. For the first time in the history of the state, Haryana has touched the 950 mark for the sex ratio at birth, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said. Sincere efforts towards the ‘Beti Bachao Beti Padhao’ campaign...

China officially ended its one child policy today with the signing into law of a bill allowing all married couples to have a second child as it attempts to cope with an ageing population and shrinking workforce.

The Supreme Court today ordered Yahoo!, Google and Micrsoft's Bing to stop displaying ads for sex determination tests as India tries to battle its dwindling number of girls.

Maharashtra is notorious for its low sex ratio. And now, in yet another shocking incident, the police in Beed have recovered foetuses in a drain.Police have filed an FIR against unknown persons and are investigating if these were sex selective abortions."On June 9, we got information that a foetus was found near a river body. On June 10 also we fou...

About 10 million female fetuses may have been aborted in India over the past two decades.

Dark clouds and the threat of rain caused doubts for England captain Joe Root in choosing his side for the opening Test in Sri Lanka starting on Thursday.

Chandigarh: Haryana has been infamous for having worst sex ratio in India. However, the state has shown a great improvement recently. For the first time in the history of the state, Haryana has touched the 950 mark for the sex ratio at birth, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said. Sincere efforts towards the ‘Beti Bachao Beti Padhao’ campaign...

China officially ended its one child policy today with the signing into law of a bill allowing all married couples to have a second child as it attempts to cope with an ageing population and shrinking workforce.

The Supreme Court today ordered Yahoo!, Google and Micrsoft's Bing to stop displaying ads for sex determination tests as India tries to battle its dwindling number of girls.

Maharashtra is notorious for its low sex ratio. And now, in yet another shocking incident, the police in Beed have recovered foetuses in a drain.Police have filed an FIR against unknown persons and are investigating if these were sex selective abortions."On June 9, we got information that a foetus was found near a river body. On June 10 also we fou...

About 10 million female fetuses may have been aborted in India over the past two decades.