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Sex ratio continues to slide in India
MyNews.in, 12/31/2007
Despite girl-friendly policies, public information campaigns and a new act to help catch culprits who perform sex detection tests and abort female foetuses, the proportion of girls to boys in five districts of states with severely skewed sex ratios continues to slide.
Sexuality is being defined and redefined all the time. Before you`ve had time to get used to the metro or uber sexual man, here`s the androgynous male.
As THE girls walk into the brightly lit room on the third floor of the urban centre in what’s become famous as Asia’s largest slum, their confident and effervescent stride spells the barriers they have conquered.
The year 2008 may well ring in some good news for around 2.5 million people living with HIV and AIDS in the country. Indian Railways is considering offering fare concessions, as high as 75 per cent, to HIV/AIDS patients travelling on its network.