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The Morning Wrap: India's Sex Ratio Reaches Lowest Level Since 1961

The Morning Wrap: India's Sex Ratio Reaches Lowest Level Since 1961
INDIA - APRIL 17: Child being given a dose of Polio drops at Rural Village in Haryana, India (for the story on Sex Ratio of Girl Child) (Photo by Sipra Das/The India Today Group/Getty Images)
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INDIA - APRIL 17: Child being given a dose of Polio drops at Rural Village in Haryana, India (for the story on Sex Ratio of Girl Child) (Photo by Sipra Das/The India Today Group/Getty Images)

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Essential HuffPost

2015 was the year we started talking about periods in public: Now how long would it take for women to grow weary of treating a part of their body like it was Kim Jong-un waving a detonator at the face of humanity? Turns out, very, very long.

How Mahesh Sharma became India's Minister of Culture Wars in 2015: To this date, the government seems to have not realized that it should not matter if it was beef or mutton. The only thing that should matter is that in 2015 a man could be lynched in India because of what he ate.

In 2015, Congress continued to be the biggest political loser: There’s a saying in Hindi, mara hua haathi bhi sawa lakh ka hota hai – even a dead elephant is worth a lakh and a quarter. There is little sign of the elephant coming back to life anytime soon.

Why George Harrison was so angry with me in Calcutta in 1976: George Harrison scowled at the lift trellis door. I was absolutely certain of one thing - there was going to be no scoop interview.

19 Photos That Defined India In 2015: This was also the year social activist and acid attack survivor Laxmi and her partner Aloke Dixit became the proud parents of a baby girl, christened Pihu.

34 Great regional films that released in 2015: Indian cinema, of course, is about more than just Bollywood.

Watch a beautiful tribute to the people who helped Chennai stay afloat: Instead of succumbing to defeat, they rallied together to aid those in trouble.

A few good women who kicked ass in 2015: A handful of filmmakers departed from the usual formula to write women characters that didn't have the shelf life of a Honey Singh party number.

Main News

The child sex ratio for the whole country now stands at 918, dipping further from 927 in 2001, and reaching the lowest level since 1961. But Sikhs and Jains, have turned the corner.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif: The Indian Prime Minister came to Lahore and gave us his few hours. It is high time the countries put aside their hostilities.

Union Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma: BJP has no hand in collecting stones at Ayodhya.

Pune Police: Infosys should have reported rape earlier.

You could keep the faith but still not be allowed entry into temples in Tamil Nadu from 1 January, 2016 if you're dressed in denim pants, leggings and skirts.

US is not just denying entry to students with valid visas but has also deported some Indians travelling to the country on work, business and tourism visas. In another advisory, the Indian government has asked all Indians, not just students, to carry valid supporting documents when traveling to the U.S.

Stating that the purported audio recordings confirmed its fears that the Antagarh by-election had been rigged, the Chhattisgarh Congress served a show-cause notice to its MLA Amit Jogi and sought an explanation from his father and former chief minister Ajit Jogi.

Off The Front Page

Harpal Singh Kumar, an Indian-origin cancer research expert, has received a Knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II for his "influential" work on prevention and treatment of cancer.

How early do parents start looking for schools for their toddlers? The time when parental anxiety over schooling sets in appears to be receding by the year, and now, it starts when the child just about turns one.

For Mumbai Police, 2015 a forgettable year: They may have made headway in the Sheena Bora murder case, but 2015 will be remembered as the year cops were arrested for raping a model in a chowky, aiding a drug-peddler on the run and allowing a hooch den to operate.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi has one of the largest residences among politicians in the country, bigger than even the Prime Minister's official abode at 7 Race Course Road in size.

A baby girl delivered inside a train's toilet by a woman at the Bhojipura railway station on Monday accidentally slipped and fell on the track, but survived.

Sighting of a rat in a London-bound Air India plane by passengers forced the pilot to abort take off at Mumbai, leaving the airline red-faced.

Opinion

Hell has no fury like a Hindu nationalist scorned — as I found out after my Ram Madhav interview: never have I experienced the sort of backlash that I have had to endure online over the past few days, in the wake of my headline-grabbing interview with Ram Madhav, national general secretary of the BJP and former spokesperson for the RSS, writes Mehdi Hasan in The Indian Express.

The difference alumni can make: Back in the late 1990s, responding to a call from my alma mater, the University of Arizona, I reluctantly made a $100 gift to the university. To my surprise, the dean of the business school left a voice message the next day thanking me, saying my gift quadrupled with corporate matching, writes Prabhudev Konana in The Hindu.

To our politicians - Leave history with the historians: The study of history is studying the past in terms of the past. It is not importing the past into the present, nor trying to understand the past in the light of the present, as seems to happen when a BJP general secretary talks of Akhand Bharat, a voluntary union of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, writes C.P. Bhambhri in the Hindustan Times.

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