Girl Child
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Man commits suicide, wife dies of heart attack after birth of girl child
India | July 20, 2020 23:55 ISTA man has committed suicide after his wife delivered a girl child, the police said here on Monday night.
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Hours After Birth, Girl Thrown Off 21-Storey Mumbai Building: Cops
Crime | December 06, 2019 8:49 ISTA newborn girl was killed after being thrown from a 21-storey building in suburban Kandivali on Thursday afternoon, the police said. The incident took place at a high-rise constructed under a Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) scheme in Lalji Pada area.
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UP: Man throws out wife, six daughters from home for 'only giving birth to girls'
Crime | December 03, 2019 16:00 ISTA case was registered against the husband and his elder brother under various sections of the IPC, police said, adding that efforts are on to arrest the siblings who are absconding.
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Yogi launches scheme for girl child
India | October 25, 2019 16:24 IST"This scheme will enable the celebration of the girl child from the time of her birth," she said. The 'Sumangla Kanya' scheme has been designed in a way that parents will have to take care of girl child's health and education to avail its benefits.
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International Day of Girl Child: 20 girls become envoys for a day
India | October 11, 2019 23:26 ISTGirls from underprivileged backgrounds stepped into the roles of ambassadors and high commissioners of 20 countries for a day on the occasion of 'International Day of the Girl Child' to spread the message of equality and freedom.
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UP Governor adopts girl child suffering from TB
India | August 26, 2019 12:44 ISTPatel said it would be the responsibility of the staff concerned to ensure that these children get nutritious food, medicines and proper education. All the children are from an area near the Raj Bhawan and this will make their monitoring easy.
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HC upholds man's 10-yr jail term for raping 4-yr-old girl
India | June 07, 2019 20:26 ISTThe Delhi High Court has upheld the 10-year jail term of a man for raping and sodomising a four-year-old girl known to him, observing that perpetrators of sexual offences on innocent children are "psychosocial deviants" who do not deserve any leniency.
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Why play politics of Hindu-Muslim on Mandsaur rape case?
News | June 30, 2018 17:28 ISTWhy play politics of Hindu-Muslim on Mandsaur rape case?
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SC order criminalising sex with minor wife a game-changer, key lies in implementation of laws
India | October 13, 2017 13:50 ISTThe judgment brings the focus on this crucial shortcoming in our society that has been accentuated both by societal mindsets as well as State apathy.
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Sunny Leone being slut-shamed for adopting a child tells everything that’s wrong with society
Bollywood | July 22, 2017 17:04 ISTSome even digged Sunny Leone's past when she shared the picture of the child on her Facebook.
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Apart from Sunny Leone, these 5 Bollywood celebrities have adopted children
Bollywood | July 22, 2017 15:44 ISTSunny Leone and husband are being lauded by many from film fraternity for breaking the stereotypes.
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Watch: 'Dangal' star Aamir’s new TV campaign is a father-daughter delight
Bollywood | February 26, 2017 17:44 ISTAamir Khan has always been known to support girl child campaign in “Satyamev Jayate” or even his recent blockbuster “Dangal”, which highlighted the love and bonding between a father and his daughters. Now, the superstar
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Acid attack on pregnant woman by in-laws after astrologer predicts girl child
India | September 02, 2016 14:27 ISTIn a disgraceful case of gender discrimination, a pregnant woman in Andhra Pradesh’s Nellore district was allegedly attacked with acid by her in-laws after an astrologer reportedly told her mother-in-law that the woman was carrying a girl.
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Parineeti Chopra appointed 'Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao' ambassador in Haryana
Bollywood | July 16, 2015 21:45 ISTChandigarh: Bollywood actress Parineeti Chopra has been roped as the brand ambassador for the 'Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao' campaign by the Haryana government to promote the cause of the girl child.Parineeti was chosen for the
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Piplantri: A village in Rajsathan that plants 111 trees on birth of every girl child!
India | July 15, 2015 22:37 ISTNew Delhi: In a country where incidents of female foeticide, child marriage and widening sex-ratio are everyday flooding the newspapers, here comes a ray of sunshine.A village in southern Rajasthan's Rajsamand district celebrates the birth
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#SelfieWithDaughter: Can India Save 23 Million Girls?
India | July 01, 2015 15:03 ISTIndia's child sex-ratio (below six years) is now the worst in 70 years, possibly the worst ever. The latest decline was from 927 (girls per 1,000 boys) in 2001 to 918 in 2011.The child sex-ratio,
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Mann ki Baat: PM skips Lalit Modi row, invites opposition attack
Politics | June 28, 2015 18:23 ISTNEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday spoke about a number of social issues in his monthly radio address but chose to avoid any reference to the political storm that has been generated by
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Woman abandons new born baby girl, comes back to claim it
India | January 09, 2015 7:25 ISTMadurai: Upset on coming to know her fifth child also was a girl, a woman abandoned the infant at Tirumangalam Government hospital after cutting its umblical cord around midnight, but came back again today to
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Centre launches special deposit scheme for the girl child
December 05, 2014 8:33 ISTNew Delhi: To help channelise small savings, government has launched a special deposit scheme for girl child -- Sukanya Samriddhi Account-- which can be opened in banks and post offices and half of the funds
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Girl child being seen as a burden in India, says UN Report
India | July 22, 2014 18:15 ISTNew Delhi: Indian parents' fear of their inability to find a suitable groom for their daughters along with the societal pressure to pay huge sum of dowry adds to the feeling of the girl child
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