BHOPAL: The sterilization fiasco in Madhya Pradesh refuses to die down. Lamenting the decision of making his wife undergo sterilization two months ago, a 35-year-old man, father of six daughters committed suicide in Betul district on Wednesday. His wife, who went under the scalpel in February, alleged that her husband was promised a plot of land and cash by the panchayat secretary and sarpanch of the village in exchange for the...

AHMEDABAD: She was forced to go for abortion not once but six times by her in-laws as they were obsessed for a male heir. Today she has used RTI to rescue several women who go through this ordeal many times in their lives. Amisha Bhatt, 36, from Vastrapur has exposed errant sonography clinics, how despite laws like Pre-Conception & Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act and measures to prevent sex determination...

-PTI A 13-year-old gangrape victim allegedly committed suicide after she was not allowed to file a police complaint allegedly by the local panchayat, who reportedly let off the rapists with a mere warning. The girl allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself with a dupatta in her house in the Garhmukteshwar town under Panchsheel Nagar district, 70 km from here, on Saturday evening, the police said. The victim was allegedly gangraped by three youths...

-Express News Service A week after a professor was arrested for forwarding an e-mail containing a cartoon of Mamata Banerjee, an associate professor last night took no chances when he was tagged on the Facebook in a cartoon that showed a headless woman dressed like the Chief Minister. Dr Bickram Saha, Associate Professor of Midnapore Medical College and Hospital, complained to the local police against Pallab Maitra for tagging him. Saha accused...

The Manipur government has taken a serious view of the recruitment of child soldiers by some underground organisations. Talking to Naharolgi Thoudang , a vernacular newspaper, G. Gaikhangam, Home Minister, said that since mature and educated persons would not like to join insurgent outfits, the frustrated groups were targeting children. He had directed Director-General of Police Ratnakar Bralal to keep all police stations in the State on alert. He said it was...