Hazards of being born.

"Is India's skewed ratio at birth - meaning more boys are born than girls - beginning to normalise? Yes - and it is fueled largely by changes within the Sikh community, according to a study by US-based Pew Research Center." BBC. "Experts say if there's no sex selection, for every 100 girls born, there will naturally be 105 male births," but "According to the 2011 census, India had about 111 boys per 100 girls. The number improved slightly to about 109 in the NFHS-4 (2015-16) and is at 108 now." Time to celebrate? "In 2021, Delhi recorded 13,892 cases of crime against women as compared to 2020 when the figure was 9,782, the data showed." HT. "Two minor girls were raped every day last year in the national capital, which was the most unsafe metropolitan city across the country, according to the latest report of NCRB." HT. "India has an alarming trend of dowry death according to which 20 women die every day as a result of Dowry related harassment - either murdered or compelled to commit suicide." TOI. "Dowry is an all India phenomenon. In 2019, India reported 7.1 thousand dowry deaths." In June, "Kalu, Kamlesh and Mamta Meena were victims of dispute over dowries, the often hefty sums Indian parents pay to marry off their daughters. The sisters had wed brothers from the same household and lived under the same roof, but suffered constant violence from their husbands and in-laws, according to the trio's grieving relatives." ET. "All three were found dead last month near their marital home, a village on the outskirts of Jaipur, along with Kalu's four-year-old son and infant child. Both Kamlesh and Mamta were pregnant." Delhi is the capital of India, and is the capital in crime as well. "There was nearly a 15% rise in registration of crimes in Delhi in 2021 compared with 2020, data compiled by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) shows. While murder cases saw a slight increase of around 2%, cases of crimes against women increased by 41%." TOI. Indian roads are big killers. "Road crashes in India claimed 426 lives per day  or 18 every hour, which is the highest in any calendar year. At close to 1.56 lakh (156,000) road fatalities recorded during the last year, it surpassed the number of people killed during the pre-pandemic year of 2019, indicating how reducing the number of road deaths remains a big challenge for the government." "India recorded a whopping 36.29 lakh (3.629 million) cyber security incidents since 2019 till June this year." ET. "There were at least 61,100 complaints of financial frauds involving digital payments received by the government in the last month." HT on 14 June. "The con racket through which banks and people were duped by misusing an Aadhaar updating facility seems to be getting bigger with investigation." TOI. Now the police want to access all Aadhaar data. The police want to guard us against criminals. But then, who will guard the guards?