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Asim Munir’s new role in Pakistan—managing population control

Field Marshal Asim Munir gets a surprise new deployment to the frontlines of family planning, leaving the internet in absolute stitches.

HC gives Odisha’s cooperative two-child policy a thumbs up as it compares overpopulation to H-bomb

In January, same bench similarly upheld a gram panchayat member's disqualification, quoting Bertrand Russell as it said 'population explosion is more dangerous than hydrogen bomb'.

Population causes poverty is the devil’s philosophy. It causes prosperity: Sauvik Chakraverti

Crowded cities are rich because there is greater division of labour. The extent of the division of labour depends on the size of the market, wrote Sauvik Chakraverti in 2002.

Report assessing India’s urban sprawl links slums to ‘low floor space ratio’ limits allowed for buildings

The India Infrastructure Report 2023, released by former vice-president M. Venkaiah Naidu, calls for radical reforms in urban planning and development to address the issue of slums and sprawl.

World population just passed 8 billion. Here’s what it means

India will be the world's most populous country by 2030. It will bring challenges like equal opportunities, access, and gender disparity.

Rajya Sabha MP to move bill to penalise MPs, MLAs with more than 2 kids

Rajya Sabha MP Rakesh Sinha proposes to move a private member bill in the upcoming Monsoon session. The bill comes on the heels of UP's population control bill.

Pakistan chief justice Mian Saqib Nisar expresses concern about overpopulation

An all-girl team builds a Formula car and a PML-N candidate says voting for women is 'haram'.

On Camera

Srinagar’s cinemas may have gone dark. Kashmir’s love for films never did

It seemed like J&K's battered past had taken a backseat, even if it was for the four days of the international film festival.

Global funds sour on India stocks as some cut allocation to zero

Weak corporate earnings and the lack of an AI investment theme are prompting global investors to cut India exposure.

‘Society as battlefield’: NATO cites Indian military paper on cognitive warfare. What it says

In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.

The real BRICS story is what China, Russia want & India wishes

India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.