Gender crisis deepens: Nalgonda’s birth ratio falls to 787 girls per 1,000 boys, lowest in T Hyderabad: Telangana’s worsening gender imbalance at birth has come under sharp focus, with 14 of the state’s 33 districts recording fewer than 900 girls for every 1,000 boys in 2024. At the centre of the crisis is Nalgonda, which…
File photo of Rajasthan Assembly session Jaipur: Seventy-five years after the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly came into existence, women continue to have a limited presence in the state’s highest elected House. Since the first Assembly elections in 1952, only 208 women have been elected as MLAs against 3,080 legislators, underscoring the longstanding gender imbalance in Rajasthan…
A social organisation has urged the govt to reconsider the two-child policy Bhubaneswar: Ahead of World Population Day on July 11, experts and social scientists said Odisha’s population could stabilise in the next few years as the state’s total fertility rate (TFR) has declined from 2.92 in National Family Health Survey (NFHS)-1 (1992-93) to 1.7…
