Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
Population stabilisation fortnight will be observed in the state from World Population Day on July 11 to July 24. Efforts will be undertaken to ensure participation of society and people's representatives in the activities to be conducted during this period. Health institutions right from the district up to primary health …
Is India sliding into a social catastrophe with the number of younger women set to decline in the coming years because of dipping child sex ratio? Or is there any hope of retrieving the situation? A district-by-district study of the sex ratio trends in India derived from comparing Census results …
Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Jammu and Kashmir are emerging as the new hotspots of declining sex ratio in India, according to a recent study published in reputed journal The Lancet. According to the study, about 95 per cent of districts in Maharashtra and Rajasthan have witnessed further decline in sex ratio, …
Selective abortion of girls in India prevented well over 4.2 million to 12.1 million girls from being born between 1980 and 2010, with the largest number of girls being aborted in the 1990s, a new survey has revealed. Selective abortion of girls, especially for pregnancies after a firstborn girl, has …
The first scientific study on decadal rate of selective abortions of girls in India has thrown up shocking evidence of a staggering rise in the number of missing girls right from 1980s, and of how the wealthiest and the most educated have conspired to eliminate the girl child. Titled,
The first decade of the 21st century saw more selective abortions in India than the two previous decades put together, says a new study by a prominent international health research organisation. The Toronto, Canada-based Centre for Global Health Research (CGHR), has estimated that 4.5 million girls went missing in India …
Stumped by the declining child sex ratio in the city, the state government and the BMC have decided to strengthen the implementation of the Preconception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994, in the state. While the BMC has decided to increase the frequency of its meetings …
Haryana records the lowest adult sex ratio in the country, and its Jhajjar district has the worst adult and child sex ratios. THE results of the provisional Census revealed that Haryana as a whole registered the lowest adult sex ratio in the country and also had the lowest child sex …
Correcting The Skew... Among suggestions made for checking prenatal sex determination are: Police presence outside suspect ultrasound clinics and hospitals An online complaint forum to allow people to inform on erring clinics Mapping of districts, identification of problem regions and analysis of data to determine causative factors Tracking sex ratio …
Africa's population rising fastest, might triple in this century Pressure on food, water to grow, other problems are likely The population of the world, long expected to stabilise just above nine billion in the middle of the century, will instead keep growing and may hit 10.1 billion by the year …
The population of the world, long expected to stabilize just above 9 billion in the middle of the century, will instead keep growing and may hit 10.1 billion by the year 2100, the United Nations projected in a report released Tuesday. Children at a community clinic in the village of …
Expressing concern over the declining child sex ratio as indicated in the provisional figures of the Census 2011, civil society groups have asked the Centre to take cognisance of the increasing challenges in this area of sex selection and undertake urgent measures to overcome these. As per the figures, the …
The Haryana Government has notified a District Task Force in each district to ensure strict implementation of the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, 1994 (PC and PNDT Act). An official spokesman said here on Monday that the task force would help in checking an adverse sex ratio and promote …
Demographers, social activists and concerned citizens came together here on Sunday to deliberate on the sharp decline in child sex ratio in Rajasthan, as revealed in the 2011 Census figures, and resolved to take drastic steps to check the disappearance of girl child by establishing her value in the society …
With a view to bringing down Infant Mortality Rate, 2011 will be observed as Vaccination Day in Madhya Pradesh. This instruction was given by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan during the review meeting of the Health Department on Tuesday. He asked the officers concerned to send a proposal to the …
