Woman Killed For Giving Birth To Daughters

A tribal woman in Telangana killed her newborn daughter, feeding her milk laced with pesticides, after her husband had threatened to give divorce for giving birth to be another daughter. The incident is a grim reminder of the fact that gender discrimination is still embedded in the psyche of many.

A school teacher has been ordered by a Delhi court to pay Rs 6000 as maintenance to his wife and two daughters. The wife had allegedly left him fearing for her life, after she gave birth two girls. Metropolitan Magistrate Savitri asked the woman's husband, working as a teacher in a school at Amroha in Uttar Pradesh, to give maintenance to his wife...

India's shameful and sordid story of unwanted daughters continues. In the latest incident, a woman in Amritsar was allegedly strangled to death by her husband after she gave birth to a baby girl for the third time.

A man angry with his wife for giving birth to daughters strangled her to death at their home in Govindpur village in Bihar's Munger district on Friday.

An Afghan woman has been strangled to death, apparently by her husband, who was upset that she gave birth to a second daughter rather than the son he wanted, police said Monday. It was the latest in a series of grisly examples of subjugation of women that have made headlines in Afghanistan in the past few months.

A tribal woman in Telangana killed her newborn daughter, feeding her milk laced with pesticides, after her husband had threatened to give divorce for giving birth to be another daughter. The incident is a grim reminder of the fact that gender discrimination is still embedded in the psyche of many.

A school teacher has been ordered by a Delhi court to pay Rs 6000 as maintenance to his wife and two daughters. The wife had allegedly left him fearing for her life, after she gave birth two girls. Metropolitan Magistrate Savitri asked the woman's husband, working as a teacher in a school at Amroha in Uttar Pradesh, to give maintenance to his wife...

India's shameful and sordid story of unwanted daughters continues. In the latest incident, a woman in Amritsar was allegedly strangled to death by her husband after she gave birth to a baby girl for the third time.

A man angry with his wife for giving birth to daughters strangled her to death at their home in Govindpur village in Bihar's Munger district on Friday.

An Afghan woman has been strangled to death, apparently by her husband, who was upset that she gave birth to a second daughter rather than the son he wanted, police said Monday. It was the latest in a series of grisly examples of subjugation of women that have made headlines in Afghanistan in the past few months.