A Dehli, India, man was arrested this week after he tried to sell his newborn grandson on Facebook in order to fund his alleged drug habit. Dehli police intervened after the man’s daughter complained that her father was trying to sell her newborn baby shortly after she gave birth on April 3. Feroz Khan, 47, ... read more »

A private school in Bangalore, India, is accused of cutting off tufts of hair from poor pupils in order to distinguish them from its better-off students. Children from a lower caste Hindu community, attending The Oxford School in accordance with an anti-discrimination law, were forced to wear different uniforms and had some of their hair ... read more »

Indian woman Laxmi Sargara was just one year old when her family had her married to a 3-year-old boy named Rakesh.  The woman, now 18-years-old, had her marriage legally annulled in what has been considered a ground-breaking case challenging the culture of child weddings, Agence France Presse reported Wednesday. According to AFP, the families of ... read more »

Doctors in India have reported the country’s first cases of “totally drug-resistant tuberculosis,” a virtually untreatable form of the deadly lung disease. While highly resistant cases have been documented in Italy and Iran, it has mostly been limited to impoverished areas, and has not spread very far. No one expects the Indian TB strains to spread very rapidly, as the ... read more »

Rinku Devi knew that she was carrying twins, but it wasn’t until she went into labour that doctors noticed the twins were in separate wombs. This is extremely rare – Rinku has two uteruses, and conceived her children in successive menstrual cycles. This is a condition which is reported once per year across the world – it is a ... read more »

A possible sighting of missing Madeleine McCann in India had sparked fresh hope that she was alive and well. A British woman on vacation in the country reported spotting a girl who looked remarkably like Madeleine at a market in Northern India on Friday night. She was accompanied by a French woman and a Belgian ... read more »

A shocking new trend has been revealed – Indian parents are paying thousands of dollars to change baby girls into much longed for baby boys. The procedure, called genitoplasty, is usually used to correct genital abnormalities in grown adults. The operation involves a doctor using female organ tissues to ‘grow’ a penis, and administering hormone ... read more »

 In towns like Mullahera, a village on what was then the outskirts of New Delhi, the prevailing logic for families was to want a boy,  a boy who could inherit farmland, work the fields, and provide a place in his future home for elderly parents. But this January local officials rewarded residents of Mullahera with a check for ... read more »

The 2011 Indian Census has revealed a sharp decline in the number of female babies, and a gender gap which is growing rapidly. Censuses suggest that between 1980 and 2010, four to twelve million female foetuses were selectively aborted. Women who have access to prenatal scans, and can determine the gender of their baby, are ... read more »

Abortions were legalized in India in 1971 as a way to halt population from reaching immense proportions. However, due to social pressure and the cultural acceptance of valuing boys over girls, it quickly became a way to cull female fetuses in favor of carrying a boy. In 1991 it was found that for every 1,000 ... read more »

A baby born with just one eye in the center of his forehead and no nose was born in India last week and survived only one day, reports AOL News. The infant boy was born to 34-year-old Veena Chavan via cesarean section. Doctors and mom were surprised by the baby’s appearance. “The child must have ... read more »

A Japanese couple who paid a surrogate in India (where the practice is still allowed) have divorced, and now the baby is stuck without a home due to legal problems. Some countries and parts of the United States have banned surrogacy as a money-making venture, but India legalized it in 2002. Under the practice, infertile ... read more »

Zombie baby or “miracle”? You decide. [A] baby girl – born in the city of Mumbai (Bombay) – was diagnosed as stillborn on Monday night. But she astonished her distraught family by gurgling as they took her off to the cemetery the next day. It is thought she revived after the effect of drugs – ... read more »

If you need an example of how different cultures in the world are vastly different, we’ve got a perfect one for you. Worshippers at a Muslim shrine in western India drop babies from a tower for good luck. The babies are tossed from the tower onto a cloth sheet more than 50 feet below. The ... read more »

While there are some crimes we may feel warrants a long, tortuous death, trespassing isn’t one of them. And especially when the alleged trespasser is only 6-years-old. Police in northern India arrested a man who allegedly threw a girl into a pile of glowing embers after he caught her trespassing, an attack authorities said Wednesday ... read more »