President Pranab Mukherjee released a message in a statement on eve of International Women's Day, which is observed every year on March 8. ...
06:56 PM, Mar 07, 2013
A unique initiative has been undertaken by a Pune Doctor. Following the Beed female infanticide cases, Dr Ganesh Rakh of Pune's Medicare multispeciality hospital has stopped charging any fees to deliver a girl child. The birth of a girl child is celebrated in the hospital by distributing sweets and by treating the mother and child for free. Till date, the hospital has given free treatment to 135 women and their...
10:02 AM, Jan 22, 2013
A woman was allegedly hacked to death by her husband after she gave birth to their seventh daughter in Chandpatti village in Raunapar area here, police said on Sunday. 30-year-old Kureshi Khatoon's husband Naseer Ahmad allegedly killed her as he was upset after she gave birth to their seventh daughter 15 days ago, they said. ...
01:07 PM, Jan 13, 2013
Bhopal's Bitiya Club is an initiative that went on to become the inspiration for the Madhya Pradesh government's hugely successful 'Beti Bachaao Aandolan'. ...
09:09 AM, Dec 12, 2012
New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday said bias against girl child prevailing in some sections of the society is totally unacceptable and suggested raising public awareness to check it. In a meeting with the participants of 'Save Girl Child' skating rally here, the President congratulated the organisers for taking up the responsibility of building awareness on an important subject relating to the girl child. Mukherjee remarked that the bias...
03:42 AM, Sep 01, 2012
Chennai: Most parents welcome their newborns with affection and much joy. However, this baby girl was not. Hours after she was born, the infants mother packed her in a polythene bag and tried to throw her out of a moving train. But the baby was saved. Commuters, who were alerted by the infants wails, thwarted the mothers attempt to hurl the bag out of a moving train on Wednesday. The...
12:27 PM, Aug 09, 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
Jaisalmer: In an alarming trend, authorities here have found a series of suspected cases of newborn girls being starved to death and deprived of medicines by parents. Rajasthan has one of the most skewed sex ratios in India and female infanticide is rampant in the state. Police in this desert district said on Wednesday that four suspected cases of female infanticide have been reported in a span of ten days...
03:13 PM, Jun 21, 2012
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
