Women await their turn at a family planning clinic in Bihar
Students taking part in an awareness campaign on population control in Bikaner, Rajasthan.
Nurses hold newly born babies inside a maternity ward of a government hospital on the eve of World Population Day, in Agartala.
Ashish Bose, eminent demographer, 84. In the ’80s, coined the term ‘bimaru’ for poor, populous cowbelt states. Took flak for a ‘Muslim growth rate’ thesis, later disprove...
Census figures for household size show Tamil Nadu leads the way: just 3.9 members per family. Falling fertility rates, urbanisation cited. UP, with six member families, unaffected...
Hold on tight A UN report says Delhi is now the world’s second most populated city with 2.5 crore residents. By 2030, expected to reach over 3.6 cr.
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh launches data highlights on adolescents and youth at the inauguration of the World Population Day celebrations, in New Delhi. MoS for Home Affairs...
Members of Surbhi parivar foundation, an NGO, in a protest against rise in population, in New Delhi.
School students make a human Indian map during an awareness drive on the eve of Wolrd Population Day in Patiala.
Commuters walk at the Churchgate railway station in Mumbai. India is the second most populous country in the world, with 1.2 billion people, and is expected to overtake China aroun...
A woman gave birth to three babies in a hospital in Allahabad on World Population Day.
Students take part in an awareness campaign on the occasion of World Population Day in Patna.
A woman is helped to climb at the roof of an overcrowded train at Chandausi Railway Station in Bheem Nagar on World Population Day.
People boarding an overcrowded train at Chandausi Railway Station in Bheem Nagar on World Population Day.
President Pratibha Patil showing the acknowledgement/ resident copy after her biometric enrollment under National Population Register (NPR) at Rashtrapti Bhawan, in New Delhi.
Passengers travel into an over crowded train at the New Delhi railway station, in New Delhi. According to the U.N. Population Fund, there will be a symbolic "seven billionth" baby ...
World's seven billionth baby girl, Nargis, in the arms of her mother Vinita at a Community Health Center in Mall area on the outskirts of Lucknow.
A child looks out of a window of an over crowded train at the New Delhi railway station in New Delhi. According to the U.N. Population Fund, there will be a symbolic "seven billion...
Father and mother look at their symbolic 7 billionth girl child, Nargis, at the Community Health Center in Mall, about 45 kilometers from Lucknow.
Indian men are not so keen to undergo vasectomy operation and various efforts are on to encourage them to adopt the family
India's population could surpass that of China's around 2024, two years later than previously estimated, and is projected
With the new provision of maternity leave of 26 weeks after the birth of second child, people are being encouraged to have
Hindu population in the country has increased in absolute terms in last four decades but its share in the total population
China, the most populous country in the world, has said its population will peak to 1.45 billion by 2030 and drop to 1.1 b
Union Minister Kiren Rijiju today said Hindu population was reducing in India as they "never convert people", while minori
The number of people living in Germany has reached a new record of 82.8 million, due largely to migration.
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A 64-year-old woman in China is believed to have become the oldest mother in the country to give birth to a baby.
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Time to unlearn the answer for the question which state is the economic capital of India. It’s not Mumbai anymore bu
As much as two-thirds of the global wildlife populations may be wiped out by the year 2020 due human activities, according
Hyderabad, Feb 1 (PTI) The Union Budget presented today had nothing "worthwhile" for various sections of society and it wa
Hyderabad, Feb 1 (PTI) The Union Budget presented today had nothing "worthwhile" for various sections of society and it wa
From Aditi Khanna
London, Jan 31 (PTI) As Britain struggles to manage the effects of an ageing population, a British
New Delhi, Jan 31 (PTI) Limited availability of cattle for slaughter in India despite "the abundantly available natural re
Imphal, Jan 29 (PTI) It is turning out to be a heartbreak for Muslim ticket aspirants of the BJP in the upcoming Manipur A
Islamabad, Jan 27 (PTI) Pakistan army chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa today authorised the deployment of upto 200,000 troops t
Jammu, Jan 27 (PTI) The population of world famous Hangul deer, in Dachigam National Park on the outskirts of Srinagar, ha
From K J M Varma
Beijing, Jan 27 (PTI) China's skewed sex ratio, where men have outnumbered women by millions in the
From K J M Varma
Beijing, Jan 25 (PTI) China's population is expected to peak at about 1.45 billion around 2030 from
New Delhi, Jan 25 (PTI) The Yogendra Yadav-led Swaraj India today alleged that the AAP government's budgetary allotment fo
After Shri Ramadoss, the new health miister Ghulam Nabi Azad too is making news. He is reported by PTI as saying:
“If there is electricity in every village then people will watch TV till late night and then fall asleep. They won't get a chance to produce children. When there is no electricity there is nothing else to do but produce babies."
Uh, oh. He has perhaps not been talking to the likes of Ms Sushma Swaraj and others who could educate him all about the corrupting influences of such channels as FTV and the like.
