Kochi: In the wake of growing imbalance in the sex ratio in Ernakulam, the district level advisory committee formed to monitor scan centres and to enforce Prenatal Diagnostic Technique (PNDT) Act, 19

The women and child development (WCD) ministry is seeking to calculate sex ratio from birth, instead of existing method of calculating it from 0-6 years.

This has been decided after the latest cens

One striking feature of demographic changes in the state reflected in Census 2011 data is the sharp rise in the number of “census towns” from 93 in 2001 to 228 in 2011, indicating that people from rur

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 c

The ratio of girl child per thousand male child has witnessed a sharp decline in Indian villages in the last decade, according to the latest census data released on Friday.

The child sex ratio in the

Calling for a 'crusade' to curb bias against women, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said the practice of female foeticide and infanticide was a 'national shame'.

Addressing bureaucrats at a