Morena: A man and his first wife allegedly killed a newborn girl from his second wife by poisoning the infant before strangulating her and throwing her body in a river in Morena, police said. The incident occured at Jaderua Ka Pura village under Noorabad police station six days ago but was reported to the police on Friday. According to police, the accused, 25-year-old Rajveer Gurjar and his first wife Munesh,...
09:04 AM, May 19, 2012
New Delhi: The Aamir Khan-hosted Satyamev Jayate has made a definite impact on Sunday morning programming, according to the latest TAM data released by Star Plus. The first episode of the show on female foeticide opened with an aggregate rating of 4.09 across the country. It was reportedly viewed by 27 million viewers. This figure holds true for the entire country including cable and satellite (C&S) households and terrestrial homes...
12:00 PM, May 17, 2012
Aamir Khan's debut on the small screen, Satyamev Jayate, which has captured the imagination of a large number of people and has been a constant talking point across the social networking platforms, has earned a rating of 3.8 in the three Metros of Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai on Star Plus, according to TAM data released by the channel. That is higher than the IPL 5 ratings (based on the released...
10:30 AM, May 11, 2012
Mumbai: Maharashtra government has sought the support of Bollywood star Aamir Khan in their campaign against female foeticide, a day after the actor had taken up the issue with Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot. In a letter to Khan, state Health Minister Suresh Shetty, while highlighting the steps taken by the government in this regard, congratulated him on raising the issue of female foeticide in his TV reality show 'Satyamev...
02:59 AM, May 11, 2012
Last Sunday started in a rather unusual way. Aamir Khan, in his show Satyamev Jayate, exposed a grim reality of the world's largest democracy. His ...
10:00 AM, May 08, 2012
The new Aamir Khan show 'Satyamev Jayate' has once again ignited the debate on the female infanticide in the country, especially in the north, which is also called the Hindi belt. The opening episode of the show had mothers from different parts of rural and urban India talking about the pressure and the problems they faced for delivering a girl child. "If Partition was the silent holocaust, foeticide is our...
01:24 PM, May 07, 2012
Rohtak: A leading medical health institution in Haryana, not far from the national capital, is grappling with a peculiar problem - an increasing number of abandoned newborn girls who were brought there in a critical condition. In the last 10 days alone, four such baby girls have been admitted to the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS) in Rohtak, the hometown of Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, 70 km from...
10:58 AM, May 01, 2012
Jaipur: Yet another teenager has stood up against child marriage in Rajasthan. In Dausa, an eleventh standard student has refused to accept her marriage that took place years ago when she was a little girl. This comes less than a week after 17-year-old Lakshmi from Jodhpur also got her marriage annulled for the same reason. It's a tough battle against her own people but 16-year-old Prem Saini from Dausa has...
07:41 AM, Apr 27, 2012
Chandigarh: More shameful chapters have been added to the story of the unwanted girl child in the country. While in Punjab, a man allegedly strangulated his wife to death for giving birth to a third baby girl, in Haryana, a father allegedly beat his three daughters, one of whom succumbed to her injuries. A woman was allegedly strangulated to death by her husband in Punjab's Tarn Taran district as he...
07:39 AM, Apr 18, 2012
Chandigarh: A woman was allegedly strangulated to death by her husband in Punjab's Tarn Taran district as he was upset that she had given birth to three daughters, police said. Paramjit Kaur, 35, who was married in Chabaal village of Tarn Taran, 270 km from Chandigarh, was allegedly murdered by Nishan Singh. Her brother Surjit Singh told police that Nishan Singh used to beat and torture her earlier also when...
11:22 PM, Apr 17, 2012
Udaipur: A new-born girl was found dumped on the edge of a sewer line in a deserted area in Rajasthan's Udaipur city early Saturday morning, police said. The infant girl, who appears to have been disowned by her parents, has been adopted by an NGO. "Some morning joggers heard the cries of a baby. They spotted her lying on the brink of the sewer line in Udaipur Road area of...
09:28 AM, Apr 15, 2012
The three-month-old baby, beaten up badly by her father, succumbed to a massive cardiac arrest on Wednesday. ...
11:50 PM, Apr 11, 2012
Baby Afreen, the three-month-old baby, beaten and abused by her father continues to be critical and on life support. ...
11:37 PM, Apr 10, 2012
Hardoi: A newborn baby girl was found abandoned near the railway tracks near Sandila Railway Station in Hardoi, the third such case involving baby girls this week. The girl was found lying near the railway tracks on Thursday morning, RPF sub-inspector S K Singh said. He said the girl was admitted to a community health centre in Sandila where doctors have described her as healthy. Earlier, this week two baby...
12:02 PM, Apr 07, 2012
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