
A newly-born girl was found abandoned in the city's Vartak Nagar locality in the early hours on Monday, police said. ...

10:03 AM, Jan 21, 2013

Madurai: A new-born girl baby was found abandoned in a textile shopper bag in a coach of the Pandiyan Express train at neighbouring Dindigul on Thursday night. Police said a ticket examiner saw the baby wriggling in the bag and crying and gave a complaint to the Railway Police. Police rushed the baby to the government hospital where it was given first aid. The district child protection centre would take...

04:28 AM, Dec 21, 2012

Jaipur: A new-born girl child was found abandoned in an isolated area in Jalore district, police said in Jaipur. She was admitted to a government hospital in Sanchore area of the district, where her condition was stated as stable, they said. The infant was found wrapped in a cloth and abandoned few hours after her birth, police said. According to police, efforts were on to identify her parents, they said....

01:17 AM, Dec 14, 2012

Guntur: A two-day old baby girl was found abandoned in an open drain on Thursday in Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh. She was found by passers-by and was immediately taken to a government hospital, where she is currently undergoing treatment. Doctors said that she is stable but there have been no claimants yet. Meanwhile, an infant was found abandoned in front of a rest house in Shirdi on Thursday. The...

07:59 AM, Oct 26, 2012

Srinagar: Hours after CNN-IBN broadcast the story of a five-day-old girl, abandoned due to a cleft lip, responses began streaming in with couples calling from Coimbatore and Bangalore to Chandigarh and the Kashmir valley. Voluntary groups have promised to find a new home for her. "We are getting calls and at least some couples sound serious to give her a home," Doctor Muneer Masoodi of GB Pant hospital said. Help...

09:28 AM, Sep 21, 2012

Srinagar: A five-day old baby girl, born with a cleft lip, has been left abandoned by her parents in a Srinagar hospital. No one has come forward to claim the infant, who is now being fed through a tube. She hasn't got her name yet, but those who could have given her one, her parents, abandoned her in the corridor of a paediatric hospital. Born with a cleft lip, the...

08:37 AM, Sep 20, 2012

New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Wednesday issued notice to Haryana government in the wake of a reported spurt in cases of aby girls being abandoned in the state. "The NHRC has issued notice to the Haryana's chief secretary, asking him to submit a report on allegations, as reported in the media, that incidents of abandoned infant girls have recently shot up in the state," said a...

01:48 AM, Jul 12, 2012

Gurgaon: A baby boy was found abandoned near the main market of this technical hub of Haryana, police said, adding that this was the fourth such case in less than a month. The other three abandoned children were girls. The baby, who seemed only four to five days old was heard crying in the Jain Baradari area near the Sadar Bazar late on Friday by passers-by, who informed police. City...

11:26 PM, May 12, 2012

Rohtak: A newborn baby girl was left abandoned by her parents at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Science (PGIMS) in Rohtak, the third such incident in Haryana this month. The condition of the under-weight baby, who has been suffering from acute liver infection since her birth, is stated to be critical, officials said on Saturday. According to PGIMS authorities, a woman, who gave her name as Ravi along with...

04:39 PM, Apr 28, 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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11:55 PM, Mar 15, 2012

Mumbai: Anger turned to amazement for 90-year-old Savitri Desai when her son Ravi came to Chinchpokli railway station to take her back home yesterday. Although she was apprehensive of going back home out of fear of harassment by the family members, she relented after her son's assurance of proper behaviour. "I am glad to be with my family and I am grateful to all the commuters who took care of...

01:42 PM, Feb 28, 2012

New Delhi: Baby Falak's five-year-old brother was found in Uttam Nagar in Delhi on Wednesday. He will be handed over to Munni, who has claimed to be the two-year-old's mother. The boy had been missing for months and a search was launched in Delhi and Bihar after Munni's story came to light. Munni has undergone a DNA test and the results are awaited. Earlier, in a major breakthrough in the...

10:10 AM, Feb 15, 2012

New Delhi: Two-year-old baby Falak, who has been battling for life at the AIIMS, has been put on ventilator support intermittently since Saturday night. Doctors at the AIIMS hospital are monitoring her brain fluid levels. Doctors have said that her vitals signs are stable as of now but she may undergo her fourth surgery if her condition worsens. A woman named Aarti was arrested last week for pushing the 15-year-old,...

11:31 AM, Feb 05, 2012

New Delhi: Two-year-old baby Falak's condition was very critical, but stable on Wednesday. Doctors attending to her said that it was getting difficult to control her infection. "We are giving anti biotics but dont think we can control the infection," Dr Deepak Agarwal said. He also said that the chances of Falak's survival were now less than 50 per cent. Falak's neurological condition remained the same and she was in...

12:52 PM, Feb 01, 2012

New Delhi: Two-year-old baby Falak continued to remain critical on Wednesday with meningitis and brain fluid infection. Doctors have now inserted a pipe into Falak's spinal cord to drain out the water from her brain. Though her vitals are still strong, she remains on a ventilator. Doctors have said that the next 48 hours will be critical for her. Doctors will decide on Wednesday on a new set of antibiotic...

10:20 AM, Feb 01, 2012

Kolkata: As baby Falak battles for life in Delhi, another infant was found be abandoned in a train in West Bengal. Authorities were informed after some passengers found the six-month-old in a coach of the Howrah-New Delhi Toofan Express at Asanol station raised an alarm. The baby was handed over to the Railway police. The baby has been admitted to a hospital in Asanol and is said to be healthy....

10:10 AM, Feb 01, 2012

New Delhi: Two-year-old Baby Falak who was found battered and abandoned, continues to be critical and has been put on the ventilator again by the doctors at AIIMS. As doctors perform surgery after surgery on the two-year-old, there are still no concrete leads to who the child's biological parents are. The 2-year-old was on ventilator from Sunday night due to lung infection. With a CT scan showing fluids in her...

08:55 AM, Jan 31, 2012

New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Monday claimed that it is close to cracking the case of a two-year-old battered baby admitted in AIIMS here as it questioned a woman who got the child from her biological mother. Investigators said they have identified a crucial link and a woman named Lakshmi is being questioned. The baby Falak was admitted to AIIMS with severe injuries and is battling for life after...

02:23 PM, Jan 30, 2012

New Delhi: The police on Friday launched its investigations into the alleged role of the man involved in the baby brutality case. 2-year-old Falak was brought in a battered condition to AIIMS on January 18 by a 15-year-old girl who claimed to be her mother. However, further probe revealed that the girl had received the child from the man she was staying with. Rajkumar, a taxi-driver, who was having an...

06:15 PM, Jan 27, 2012