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India’s child sex-ratio (below six years) is now the worst in 70 years, possibly the worst ever. The latest decline was from 927 (girls per 1,000 boys) in 2001 to 918 in 2011.

The child sex-ratio, if it does not improve, will lead to a deficit of 23 million women in the 20-49 age group by 2040.

Urbanisation is worsening the child sex-ratio: it is 905 in towns and cities, 923 in rural areas.

Three of five states with the worst child sex-ratio have higher per capita income than the national average, but the link with prosperity is less clear.

The Aligarh Muslim University ( AMU) has filed five appeals in the Supreme Court of India against the impugned judgment dated January 4, 20006. All the appeals are similar running into two volumes each. To the advantage of the AMU, the Union of India has filed an appeal against the Allahabad High Court judgment running into 12 volumes containing almost all important documents from the inception of the Madarsatul Uloom to the establishment of the AMU in 1920. One appeal has been filed by aagainst the Allahabad High Court Judgment and AMU is not a Minority University.

Apart from taking a heavy toll on human lives, tremors have led to quake phobia among citizens of Bihar and Nepal resulting in medical disorders, according to doctors.

A team of AIIMS Patna that had gone to Nepal for relief work after the April 25 quake that killed more than 8000 people there has come out with a study on quake-hit people of the Himalayan nation and bordering areas in Bihar that at least 40 per cent people are suffering from vertigo, vomiting, headache and fear.

Jamiat Ulema-I-Hind on Saturday said the community would fight against communal forces to create fear among the minorities even as it urged the Centre and states to firmly deal with such elements.

Speaking at the general session held at Ramlila Maidan, Jamiat Ulema-I-Hind chief Maulana Arshad Madani said, “The community that could fight against the British (who believed sun never sets in their empire), will not bow down in fear of something that small groups are trying to create within the country.” He, however, said the community won’t overreact even when provoked.

By Ram Puniyani: The coming to power of Narendra Modi in a way gave an open license to all the affiliates of RSS combine to indulge in open hate speech against the religious minorities. The current agenda behind the hate speech is to consolidate the communal polarization of the society along lines of religion. The well known case of MIM’s Akarbar Uddudin Owaisis’ hate speech has been despicable and very rightly Akbarudin Owaisi had to be in jail for some time. The case against him should be pursued and the legal course of action must befollowed.

Lindsay Lohan showed up at the Brooklyn daycare center with a copy of the Holy Qur’an in her hand.

It was the American actress’ first day at the Duffield Children’s Center where she’s performing community service, and it looked like she had turned to the religious scripture for some community service spirit, TMZ.com reported.

Despite of the court orders, Lohan had showed up 2 hours late to do office work and interact with the kids.

The ‘Mean Girls’ star was ordered to complete 125 hours of community service in 2012 because of her reckless driving. (ANI)

Fueled by immigration, America’s Hindu population has reached 2.23 million, an increase of about one million or 85.8 percent since 2007, making Hinduism the fourth-largest faith, according to estimates based on wide-ranging study of religions in the nation.

The proportion of Hindus in the US population rose from 0.4 percent in 2007 to 0.7 percent last year, according to the Pew Research Center’s “Religious Landscape Study” published Tuesday.

A Danish court found a culinary school liable for violating a Muslim student’s rights and has ordered to pay 40,000 Danish krone, or around $6,000, as compensation, as per reported.

The 24-year-old Muslim student has abandoned her Holstebro Culinary School after she was forced to taste the food that she cooked like her other classmates.

The student, who was not named is originally from Libya, was aware that the school asked students to prepare food with pork and wine but not that trying prepared dishes was compulsory.

Sarfaraz, the hard-hitting batsman from Mumbai, scored 75 runs from seven games. But he has shown enough promise.Known to be a clean hitter of the ball, Sarfaraz made his first-class debut in 2014-15. He has also represented India in Under-19 cricket.

Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) all-rounder David Wiese on Saturday said the 17-year-old batsman Sarfaraz Khan is an unbelievable talent and has a bright future ahead of him.

“I am pretty sure he has a brIt is not every day that cricketer Virat Kohli bows down in admiration, that too, in the middle of the an exciting game.

Osama bin Laden was not given a burial at sea as claimed by the US and the al-Qaeda chief’s body may have been torn to pieces by rifle fire with some parts tossed out over the Hindu Kush mountains, according to a veteran American investigative journalist.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh has claimed that the US government’s assertion that Osama was given an appropriate Islamic burial was false and that the said burial funeral aboard the Carl Vinson did not take place.