Even wealthy and educated families try to determine the sex of a foetus and abort if it’s a girl, said gynaecologist Dr Aruna Kalra at a panel discussion on her book I Want A Boy.
IMA president Dr RV Asokan’s statement calling for the legalisation of prenatal gender determination is more than just IMA’s obligation to ensure doctors’ ease of doing business.
Bachelors & widowers’ groups in Haryana threaten poll boycott unless pension scheme is properly implemented and their demand for bachelors’ census is met. Haryana votes on 25 May.
Chikkaballapura had one of the lowest child sex ratios at birth at 868 in 2022, data shows. Steepest fall seen in Bengaluru Urban where it dropped from 1,715 in 2019 to 949 in 2022.
Two associations of unmarried men in Haryana wrote to PM last month outlining problems they face due to state's poor sex ratio, unemployment, poverty & social stigma, and asked for relief.
Khaps gained prominence as a tribal and village administration mechanism, and are most prevalent in the states of Maharashtra, Rajasthan, MP, UP, and Haryana.
The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.
IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.
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