One of the boldest movies to have ever arrived on Mollywood, Aashiq Abu's '22 Female Kottayam' has celebrated its 100 days run. The movie which has a refreshing theme and superb execution is touted as the best dark film in Mollywood which also managed to fetch popular as well as critical acclaim. The movie which opened in theatres during last Vishu was also well supported by the releasing centres, which...
04:36 PM, Jul 27, 2012
New Delhi: Female foeticide is not a lesson in their text books but students at the Bibipur village school in Haryana are happy to stay an extra hour to listen to a man - their Sarpanch Sunil Jaglan. 30-year-old Jaglan, an MA in Mathematics took a calculated risk by doing something that had never happened in the 1000 year history of the Khaps. He invited women to a Mahapanchayat of...
08:51 AM, Jul 25, 2012
Washington: After a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer, Sally Ride, the first US female astronaut, died Monday in California. She was 61, reported Xinhua. "Sally lived her life to the fullest, with boundless energy, curiosity, intelligence, passion, commitment and love. Her integrity was absolute; her spirit was immeasurable; her approach to life was fearless," read a statement on the website of Sally Ride Science, a company Ride launched to help...
01:32 PM, Jul 24, 2012
Mumbai: Much of India is outraged by the acts of a mob that molested a teenage girl on a Guwahati street on July 10. What is a greater outrage is the fact that such episodes keep repeating themselves regularly all over the country. While the depravity of the wrongdoers is certainly reprehensible, what has contributed to this nightmare is the fact that more often than not " apart from knee-jerk...
01:25 PM, Jul 16, 2012
Chandigarh: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Sunday announced Rs one crore for the development of a village where a Khap Mahapanchayat termed female foeticide as a "heinous act" and demanded murder charges be slapped against those involved in the illegal practice. The chief minister has announced the money for village Bibipur in Jind district as its residents especially women have taken the initiative to condemn female foeticide, an...
04:19 AM, Jul 16, 2012
Jind: The Khap panchayats in Haryana, because of the worse sex ratio in the country, are looking for ways to solve the problem of female foeticide. They have condemned the offence and ruled that it should be treated at par with murder. It was a first of sorts in the history of Khap panchayats in north India. Seldom seen together, women and men came together in Jind, Haryana to take...
06:15 PM, Jul 14, 2012
Jind: The Jind Maha Khap Panchayat has admitted that female foeticide a condemnable crime. The Panchayat said that female foeticide equals murder and should be a punishable offence. The issue of female foeticide was taken up by 200 Khaps from across North India. The Khap Panchayats from Haryana, Rajasthan, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh participated in an awareness session of sorts. The Panchayat representatives were holding awareness discussions on female foeticide,...
01:50 PM, Jul 14, 2012
New Delhi: Even as more than 200 Khap panchayats from across north India congregate in Haryana on Saturday to discuss the menace of female foeticide, two baby girls were found abandoned in Jodhpur and Jaipur in Rajasthan, a state that ranks amongst the top when it comes to female foeticide. A premature baby girl died in Jaipur on Friday. She was found lying near the railway tracks after an Agra-Ajmer...
08:51 AM, Jul 14, 2012
New Delhi: On Saturday, close to 150-200 Khaps from North India will be congregating at the Jind District in Haryana in a village called Bibipur at 11:00 am to discuss the issue of female foeticide. Honour killings and dowry related issues will also be discussed. Khaps from Haryana, Rajasthan, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh will be participating in the meet. Women in villages across North India had reportedly given a call...
06:23 AM, Jul 14, 2012
Mumbai: Aamir Khan says aborting a child after sex determination is wrong and supports the Maharashtra government's proposal to give severe punishment to those involved in such offences. The state has sought the central government's opinion for slapping a charge of homicide on cultprits of female foeticide. Commenting upon the state's decision, Aamir Wednesday told reporters: "I think female foeticide is a very serious issue. And if it continues the...
05:28 PM, Jul 11, 2012
Jodhpur: Body of a newborn girl, surrounded by dogs who were trying to feast on it, was on Saturday found in a garbage dump behind the Umaid Hospital in Jodhpur. Police found the body inside the garbage pile after by-passers, who also claimed to have spotted two bodies of infants, informed them. Police have, however, denied the two infants theory and claimed that there was only one infant and that...
05:45 PM, Jul 07, 2012
London: Veteran actress Helen Mirren, who was honoured with a lifetime achievement award at the annual Karlovy Vary International Film event, said there is need for more female directors in the movie industry. The 66-year-old Oscar-winning actress, who is married to moviemaker Taylor Hackford, received the award at a ceremony in the Czech Republic, reported Contactmusic. After taking to the stage to collect the honour, she called for more women...
07:35 PM, Jul 03, 2012
Mumbai: After running successfully for four years and 850 episodes, 'Na Aana Is Des Laado', about female foeticide, is set to come to an end. It goes off air July 27. In the show, Meghna Malik plays Ammaji who is against girl child. The show tracked Ammaji's journey from being a stern sarpanch in approval of female infanticide and her change of heart. "We do not believe in stretching a...
02:58 PM, Jun 30, 2012
Beijing: China's first female astronaut and two other crew members emerged smiling from a capsule that returned safely to Earth on Friday from a 13-day mission to an orbiting module that is a prototype for a future space station. The Shenzhou 9 parachuted to a landing on the grasslands of the country's sprawling Inner Mongolia region at about 10 am(0200 GMT). China declared the first manned mission to the Tiangong...
12:24 PM, Jun 29, 2012
Bollywood actor Aamir Khan has said that his show Satyamev Jayate is not an attempt to reform the political class. Rather, it is an attempt to provoke people to look inward and question themselves on their contribution to the society. Speaking to CNN-IBN Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose, the Bollywood star said that he alone could not change the society and that a change in people's attitude was required to make...
11:09 PM, Jun 25, 2012
Mumbai: After more than a month on the run, the Doctor couple wanted in cases of illegal abortions and female foeticide in Maharashtra's Beed district finally surrendered on Sunday. Doctors Sadam and Saraswati Munde will be produced in court on Monday. The Bombay High Court had rejected their bail plea on Friday. CNN-IBN had reported last week how the doctor duo was allegedly responsible for mass female foeticide had managed...
06:36 AM, Jun 18, 2012
New Delhi: The doctor couple wanted in cases of illegal abortion cases in Beed on Sunday surrendered before police. Sadam Munde and his wife surrendered in Parali police station. Earlier, the Bombay High Court rejected their bail plea on Friday. CNN-IBN had exposed how illegal abortions and female foeticide were rampant in Beed district of Maharashtra. ...
09:39 PM, Jun 17, 2012
Jiuquan,(China): China launched its most ambitious space mission yet on Saturday, carrying its first female astronaut and two male colleagues in an attempt to dock with an orbiting module and work on board for more than a week. The Shenzhou 9 capsule lifted off as scheduled at 6:37 pm (1237 GMT) evening from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on the edge of the Gobi Desert. All systems functioned normally and,...
05:20 PM, Jun 16, 2012
Jaipur: The body of a day-old girl was found dumped in a well in a village in Rajasthan's Bundi district, police said on Tuesday. According to police, the body was spotted on Monday night in the well near Sajjangarh village in the district, some 200 km from Jaipur. However, the body could only be extricated on Tuesday. "Some villagers had gone to fetch water from the well when they realised...
12:47 AM, Jun 13, 2012
Mumbai: In a new twist in the Beed abortion case, it has now come to light that the main accused doctor couple enjoyed political patronage. The Mundes - Sudam and Saraswati - hobnobbed with the likes of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Chief Sharad Pawar and senior BJP leader Gopinath Munde. The couple have been on the run for about two weeks now. Known as the Butcher of Beed, Dr Sudam...
10:10 PM, Jun 12, 2012
