Selective Foeticide

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...

Pune: Five years ago, Pune gynaecologist Dr Ganesh Rakh took a special initiative in his 5-bed hospital. He launched a scheme that waived off medical bills on the birth of a girl child. Little did he know that this small initiative by him will turn into a national campaign on saving the girl child. “We started on a modest scale on January 3, 201...

The posh south Delhi has a dark secret, as an AIIMS study on medico-legal autopsy findings of 238 foetuses and newborns abandoned in the area between 1996-2012 points towards female foeticide in the national capital.

The Supreme Court today asked all states and union territories to submit by the month-end their quarterly reports with the Centre on issues including registration of birth, to ascertain the girl child ratio in the country.

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...

Pune: Five years ago, Pune gynaecologist Dr Ganesh Rakh took a special initiative in his 5-bed hospital. He launched a scheme that waived off medical bills on the birth of a girl child. Little did he know that this small initiative by him will turn into a national campaign on saving the girl child. “We started on a modest scale on January 3, 201...

The posh south Delhi has a dark secret, as an AIIMS study on medico-legal autopsy findings of 238 foetuses and newborns abandoned in the area between 1996-2012 points towards female foeticide in the national capital.

The Supreme Court today asked all states and union territories to submit by the month-end their quarterly reports with the Centre on issues including registration of birth, to ascertain the girl child ratio in the country.