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TopicIndian population

Topic: Indian population

The real reason Amit Shah wants to know your mother tongue

In the absence of a proper data protection law, the NPR is an excessive centralisation of personal data waiting to be politically misused.

Niti Aayog to draft plan to address India’s growing population

Niti Aayog will work on a plan to address gaps in India's family planning programmes. More than 30% of India's population is in the reproductive age group.

Court junks plea for population control law after Modi govt silence

The Delhi High Court has disposed of a petition that sought directions to the Modi government to devise a population-control law. 

After Swachh Bharat success, Modi nudges India on population control, plastic ban, tourism

In his Independence Day speech, Modi hailed as patriots those who have chosen to keep their family size small.

Youthful Africa to overtake aging Asia in workforce

The number of 15-to-64-year-old Africans today is a quarter of the size of Asia’s working-age population. By 2100, however, Africa will surpass Asia.

India’s population growth slows substantially, may ‘no longer be pressing problem’

UN report finds that population growth rate slowed considerably in the 2010-2019 period but the situation in UP, MP and Bihar still cause for concern.

India’s population increased an average 1.2% annually this decade, more than double of China

India's population grew to 1.36 billion this year from 942.2 million in 1994, recording an improvement in life expectancy at birth, according to a UN report.

World Contraception Day: As more women opt for morning-after pills, doctors urge caution

Among other things, frequent use is believed to cause nausea, abdominal pain, weight gain, and a complicated conception later.

On Camera

Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.