Any satisfaction over the latest report of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India must be tempered with the distressing features thereof. For a country that has historically been plagued by infant mortality, it is gratifying to note that India’s infant mortality rate has declined to 32 percentage points…
A total of 17,479 people with dementia or suspected dementia were reported missing in Japan in 2019, the most since data began being collected in 2012, police said Thursday. The National Police Agency data showed the figure was up 552 from 2018 and about 80 percent higher than in 2012,…
news, world More than 140 million girls are considered “missing” today because of a preference for sons over daughters and extreme neglect of young girls leading to their death, the UN Population Fund says in its annual report. The agency, known as UNFPA, also said that one-in-five marriages that take…
NEW DELHI: A New UN report highlights how “son preference” and gender-biased sex selection (GBSS) has resulted in an estimated 460,000 girls, ‘missing’ at birth in India each year between 2013-17. Globally it is estimated that the number of girls missing due to GBSS has more than doubled over the…
A British expat has admitted destroying any likely DNA evidence linked to the squalid Algarve home lived in by Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner. Ruth Maclean lived next door to ‘monster’ Brueckner, 43, in the hamlet of Sitio de Lakes, near Praia de Luz, for years. Brueckner was recently identified as…
Updated on June 26 at 4:15 p.m. ET: The Amber Alert for missing 9-month-old Braelee Trapp who was forcibly taken from her home was canceled after the child was found safe, authorities said. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation provided the update on Friday but did not release any additional details regarding…
When streamer Samantha Wong told Twitch that she had been sexually harassed by another streamer, the report went all the way to the top. A Twitch VP who has since left the company, Justin Wong, says he escalated her allegations to Twitch’s CEO, the head of Twitch HR, and a…
SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) Crews continue the search for a missing man in Lake Champlain. Emergency services in South Burlington responded to reports of a person in distress in the water by Red Rocks Park at around 5:45 p.m. on Tuesday. Our Elissa Borden has an update. New details emerged…
It is often said that there are opportunities as well as challenges for Canada as the country and economy begin to emerge from the first wave of COVID-19. That is certainly true of child care. The lack of a national strategy to ensure accessible and affordable care is a challenge…
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