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Female police officers in India are seen in this AFP photo.


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Relatives mourn the death of a child at Baba Raghav Das Hospital in Gorakhpur district of the Indian state Uttar Pradesh on August 11, 2017. (AFP)


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Smoke is released into the sky at a refinery in Wilmington, California. (Reuters)


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Indian gynecologists conducting ultrasound examinations on pregnant patients at a government-run hospital in the northeastern Indian city of Agartala. CreditJayanta Dey/Reuters


How to Fix India’s Sex-Selection Problem

How to Fix India’s Sex-Selection Problem

There are too many men in India today. Over the course of several decades, 300,000 to 700,000 female fetuses were selectively aborted in India each year. Today there are about 50 million more men than women in the country. While selective abortion of female fetuses...
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A Cairn India employee works at a storage facility for crude oil at Mangala oil field at Barmer in the desert Indian state of Rajasthan. (Reuters)


Gang Steals 50 Million Liters of Oil in India

Gang Steals 50 Million Liters of Oil in India

New Delhi, London – Indian Police in Rajasthan have busted a gang accused of smuggling more than 50 million liters of crude oil inside water tankers from the country’s largest onshore oilfield, a police official said. The gang had purchased land adjacent to the...