NEW DELHI: India’s life expectancy at birth inched up to 69.7 in the 2015-19 period, well below the estimated global average life expectancy of 72.6 years. It has taken almost ten years to add two years to life expectancy.
In a bid to prevent misuse of section 498A (punishment for cruelty by husband and his relatives) of Indian Penal Code (IPC), the Allahabad high court has said that after the registration of a first information report (FIR), no arrest should be made before expiry of a “cooling-period” of two month
The queer collectives at different Delhi University colleges have been growing and are now being formally recognised by the administrations too.
The Covid-19 pandemic has not caused a baby boom, but quite the opposite in the city. Mumbai registered nearly 24% fewer births in 2021 compared to the pre-pandemic year of 2019—the second year of the country's second most populous city recording a significant drop in birth registrations.
According to the police, the incident took place on Friday night when the minor girl and her mother were heading to Roorkee from Kaliyar, Haridwar in a rickshaw.
The Delhi high court has sought response from Delhi Police and a Muslim man whose wife has challenged a notice of “talaq-e-hasan” sent to her. Justice Dinesh Kumar Sharma, in a recent order, asked the husband and police to respond to the woman’s petition.
Crimes against women, including rape, molestation and kidnapping, have been on the rise this year.
In June, police arrested the mother and stepfather of the victim for taking her to private fertility centres to sell her oocytes.
A 25-year-old man was allegedly strangled to death and later set ablaze in Hyderabad by his wife’s relatives who opposed their marriage, police said, adding that the woman’s father has been detained for questioning.
He was on the run for the last one month after causing death of a 27-year-old woman