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Telangana Statehood Day: K Chandrasekhar Rao announces schemes for women welfare
• 8 years agoMarking the third anniversary of formation of Telangana state, Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Friday announced schemes for well being of pregnant women and single women.
From triple talaq to honour killing, 'tradition' is an excuse used to suppress women
Gita Aravamudan • 8 years agoFrom triple talaq to honour killings, sati, johar, infanticide — why are traditions that harm women seen as protective mechanisms?
Maharashtra's mandatory sex determination move will victimise women, not those exploiting their wombs
Gita Aravamudan • 8 years agoMaking sex determination tests mandatory, as proposed in Maharashtra, is fraught with issues
Make sex determination test compulsory, says Maharashtra House panel
• 8 years agoA key Maharashtra assembly committee has recommended making pre-natal sex determination mandatory to prevent female foeticide.
Sangli doctor's arrest unfolds a horrifying tale of female foeticide racket covering Maharashtra, Karnataka
Prachee Kulkarni • 8 years agoSwati Jamdade died on 1 March while undergoing an abortion performed by Balasaheb Khidrapure. During investigation, police found 19 foetuses, some in a state of decay, some buried under a stream close to the hospital. Gradually, a horrifying tale of female foeticide unfolded.
Showing sex determination ads is illegal: Here is why there is no full stop to this
Sheldon • 8 years agoWhy does the court have to keep reminding search engines, time and again, to stop showing these sex determination test advertisements?
Rajasthan is cracking down on illegal sex determination tests: Can other states follow suit?
Gita Aravamudan • 8 years agoThe Rajasthan Government’s PCPNDT Cell, under the direction of Naveen Jain, is cracking down on illegal sex determination tests in the state. Can the model be replicated in other states too?
India's disappearing daughters: Child sex ratios continue to plummet all over the country
Gita Aravamudan • 8 years agoStudies now indicate that hitherto relatively unaffected Indian states now have also got plunging child sex ratios.
Vishal Dadlani mocks Jain guru Tarun Sagar on Twitter, ends up quitting politics
Fp Staff • 9 years agoVishal Dadlani decided to takes shots at Tarun Sagar, a Jain monk who addressed the Haryana Assembly in nude. After rampant trolling from Twitter, the composer apologised and decided to quit all political affiliations
Qandeel Baloch's killing: Face the mirror, there's a lot of Pakistan in us
Sandipan Sharma • 9 years agoThe sanctimonious outrage in India against ''those Pakistanis" for killing Qandeel Baloch and then rejoicing over her corpse is amusing. For, we have killed our very own Baloch many times with equal nonchalance.