Tag: Newborn Girl

In a shocking incident, body of a newborn girl was recovered from a drain on the premises of the Bhima Bhoi Medical College and Hospital (MCH) in Bolangir district.

Wrapped in polythene, the body of the baby girl was found floating in the drain behind the MCH building.

"We already have three children. As I am a daily wager, it will be very hard to feed a six-member family. So, we decided to hand over the newborn to a childless couple, who happens to be a relative, to adopt and raise the baby girl well," said the father.

Balasore: A newborn baby girl was found near Old Cinema Hall in Balasore today. According to sources, the baby was rescued in a serious condition and was admitted to Soro Community Healthcare Centre by a local resident. However, under what circumstances the child was abandoned and by whom is yet to be ascertained. A team […]

Kendrapara: Various awareness campaigns on protection of girl child seem to be futile as reports of newborn baby girls being abandoned are hugging headlines every other day. In yet another such incident, a newborn, believed by locals to be one or two-day old, was found abandoned at a temple near Chandapur in Kendrapara district today. […]

Khurda: Beti Bachao initiative of the Central government has come a cropper  as incidents of abandonment of baby girls keep rising every day. One such incident has been reported from Tankol village under Jankia police limits in Khurda district today where a newborn girl was found abandoned. According to reports, the infant was left alone […]

Jajpur: A baby girl, born today, was abandoned by her parents in a hospital in Jajpur road. The infant is under the care of hospital authorities. Medical authorities informed the local police about the incident. They said a couple, who registered their names as Ambika and Deepak Mohanty from Sukinda area in the district, had […]

Baripada: A newborn girl was rescued by a woman from the Krushnachandrapur forest. According to sources, the woman was collecting firewood from the forest yesterday while she discovered by baby. Today the woman handed over the baby to the district child protection officer. “We spotted the baby after hearing her cries. Then we rescued her,” […]

Jajpur: The newborn girl, who was found buried alive in compost dump at Shyamsundarpur in Jajpur district and rescued by the locals on March 25, has got a name ‘Dharitri’ or the Earth in Sanskrit. The female infant, who is undergoing treatment at the Jajpur district headquarters hospital under the supervision of the District Child Protection […]

Berhampur: An abandoned newborn girl was rescued by residents of a village in Odisha’s Ganjam district and sent to a private children’s centre here. The baby girl, who was found abandoned by villagers at Badangi under Tarsingi police station limits on Wednesday, was shifted in a private ‘Sishu Bhavan’ here later, district officials said today. […]

Balasore: A newborn girl was found abandoned in Machhua forest under Mitrapur in Balasore district on Tuesday. According to reports, a woman from a village nearby Machhua forest had gone to the jungle for agricultural works when she heard the baby’s wail. When she followed the cries, she found the baby lying in the forest […]

Mayurbhanj: A newborn girl was found abandoned in Singada Jungle under Raruan Police limits in Mayurbhanj district. According to reports, some villagers of the village nearby the forest heard a baby crying and found her lying in the jungle. They rescued the baby and admitted her to Karanjia sub-divisional hospital for treatment. Doctors at the […]

Bareilly (Uttar Pradesh): In an uncanny incident, a father found an earthen pot with a newborn girl in it when he was digging a pit to bury his own stillborn daughter who had died minutes after birth. According to reports, Hitesh Kumar Sirohi, a trader, rescued the newborn girl and fed her milk using cotton. […]