117 Biking Queens Sarika Mehta, Yugma Desai, Khyati N. Desai and Durriya M. Tapiya meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi. They completed a 10,000-km trip to 10 Asian countries in 40 days to raise awareness against female foeticide. | PTI Photo
217 Circle of Daddy’s Girls
clicking selfies with daughters—that's one way of showing affection for and pride in daughters, a drive launched, rightly, in Haryana, groaning for so long under a horribly skewed sex ratio and now determined to change it. The man behind the contest is Bibipur village panchayat sarpanch Sunil Jaglan. The selfies would be judged by a delegation of 30 women sarpanches and anganwadi workers. The reason, says Sunil, is to ‘increase importance of daughters', and a further spur to the Beti Bachao Beti Padhao campaign. |
317 Drive For Girls Aloud
The well-being of the girl child is a theme that can occasion warm, glowing photos. In February, actresses Priyanka Chopra and Frieda Pinto had launched the Girl Rising India campaign, which blended in well with the government's Beti Bachao Beti Padhao campaign. That scheme—against female foeticide and discrimination against women—got global support when representatives of the international Girl Rising campaign (Pinto, in yellow, among them) met PM Modi in New Delhi. | PTI
417 Cyclist Gurjeet Singh in Patiala. Singh traveled through 29 states covering 16,000KM, on his bicycle to gain an entry into the Guinness Book of World Records and to promote the ‘Save and Educate Girl Child’ campaign. | PTI Photo
517 The Floor Of The Cause
They spent the most part of November 30 sitting on studio couches and talking solemnly, sweetly about the importance of the girl child. Good thing is, celebrities on the NDTV fund-raiser also managed to raise promises from many peers. But, as Lovelies Priyanka and Anushka show, even a grave issue can't keep them from ‘performing’. And why not? | Fotocorp (From Outlook 16 December 2013)
617 Students hold placards as they shout slogans against female foeticide in Mumbai.
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717 Aamir Khan addresses a press conference on the issue of female foeticide in Mumbai. | PTI Photo
817 Aamir Khan addresses a press conference on the issue of female foeticide in Mumbai on Wednesday. | PTI Photo
917 Social activists form a human chain and light candles to highlight the plight of the girl child as part of a 'save the girl child' campaign in New Delhi. | AP Photo/Saurabh Das
1017 Just cause Rally against female foeticide in Nawanshahr, Punjab | T. Narayan
1117 Aamir Khan (L) with Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Ghelot addressing the media in connection with his plea for speedy trial of female foeticide cases in Jaipur. | PTI Photo
1217 A TV grab shows baby Afreen, dead in a hospital in Bangalore. The three-month-old baby, allegedly battered and abused by her father for being born a girl, died after suffering a cardiac arrest. | TV Grab/ NewsX
1317 NCP MP Supriya Sule dances as she participates in a "padyatra" from Naigaon to Pune against female infanticide at Naigaon in Satara, Maharashtra. | PTI Photo
1417 Hindustan National Party workers taking out a rally in protest against female foeticides in Amritsar. | PTI Photo
1517 Mum No More Bhati Rajput women at a Jaisalmer rally to protest girl child killing | Tribhuvan Tiwari
1617 No Place For girls If women do step out in Devda, it’s only in pairs | Tribhuvan Tiwari
1717 The controversial advertisement released by Ministry of Women and Child Development to mark the National Girl Child Day that left the government highly embarrassed as it included a photograph of former Pakistani Air Chief Marshal Tanveer Mahmood Ahmed. "The Prime Minister's Office has noted with regret the inclusion of a foreign national's photograph in a Government of India advertisement. While an internal enquiry has been instituted, the PMO apologises to the public for this lapse," said a hastily put together release after the minister for Women and Child Development Krishna Tirath added fuel to the fire by insisting that the message was more important than the photograph. | PTI Photo
