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The Delhi High Court on Monday reserved its order on a petition by a 26-year-old woman seeking to terminate her 33-week pregnancy on account of the foetus suffering from certain cerebral abnormalities. Justice Prathiba M Singh, while clarifying that she was not taking any view at the moment, also expressed her "ethical concern" in the matter and pondered upon the use of technology to detect any abnormalities in a foetus and thus, have only "prefect children". "There is one ethical concern that the court is thinking of and that is with technology. It is actually very easy to detect a number of abnormalities as of today. We are now almost talking of a full-term pregnancy (in this case)," the court said. "So I am not taking any view either way but I am just saying that are we looking at a society which only has perfect children?...If the means are provided, should the parents then have the choice of not having the child at all," the court questioned. After hearing the petitioner as we
Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently asserted that flexible workplaces are the future. We ask if the hybrid work culture is the solution to our historically low women labour force participation
After facing huge backlash for spitting on a woman's head during one of his seminars in Uttar Pradesh, ace hairstylist Jawed Habib has now apologised for his act.Jawed issued an apology statement through a video message, in which he stated that he spitted just to make the seminar "humourous"."I just want to say one thing these are professional workshops, as in, they are attended by people from within our profession. When these sessions get very long, we have to make them humorous. What can I say? If you are truly hurt, I apologise from the bottom of my heart. Please forgive me, I am sorry," Jawed can be heard saying in the video.For the unversed, on Thursday, a video went viral in which Jawed was seen using his spit to style the woman's hair.In the clip, the woman is seen sitting on the stage on a salon chair while Jawed prepares to cut her hair while giving her hair tips. He says,"Baal gande hain. Kyun gande hain? Kyunki shampoo ka istemaal nahi hua hai (Hair are dirty. Why are they .