A deep-seated cultural preference for boys is skewing India’s sex ratio and making slaves of women.
A deep-seated cultural preference for boys is skewing India’s sex ratio and making slaves of women.
Nearly 2,500 children, including girls, have been taken by communist rebels with a new recruitment drive under way.
Baseball and football, together with dedicated individuals, are changing lives of many young girls in India.
Rural cancer patients cram train for city medical treatment of illnesses many link to the use of pesticides in farming.
![Sixty percent of seats on the 'Cancer Train' are usually occupied by people bound for the hospital [Sujanya Das]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/201514122930657580_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Cafe run by acid attack survivors aims to remove stigma and also offers opportunity for financial independence.
![<p>Staff members take a moment before starting their day at the cafe. According to an ACID Survivors Foundation India [ASFI] report, there have been 518 recorded cases of acid attacks from January 2010 to July 2014.</p>](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/201411277740934605_8.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
More than 100 workers have died of starvation since West Bengal’s tea estates have begun shutting down.
![Tea estates, like this one, started shutting down in 2002 [Chinmaya N Singh/ Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/201494123317758734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Radioactive waste generated in three government owned mines spurs health fears in eastern Jharkhand state.
![Agnu Murmu spoke to Al Jazeera about the crisis days before he died of cancer [Sanjay Pandey/Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/2014810123314318734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
About 700,000 people in eastern Jharkhand state live amid fires triggered by mining of coal from the surface.
![Some 67 fires - big and small - are currently raging in Jharia [Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/201432865823732734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Poor and unable to find grooms for their daughters, many still seize men at gunpoint in what is known as pakadwa shaadi.
![Manoj Shah, right, fell in love with his wife after he was forced into marriage 20 years ago [ Picture by Chinmaya Nand Singh]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/2014218105758471580_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)