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    Modi’s population control talk raises concern

    19 Aug 2019

    On Independence Day Prime Minister Narendra Modi caused eyebrows to rise by stating in his address that the rate of growth of the country’s population is worrisome. At the last count in 2011 India’s population was about 1.25 billion. Modi’s foreboding is out of tune with the optimistic note of the Economic Survey

    Warning out over rise in teenage Filipino mothers

    24 Aug 2019

    The Philippines is in the grip of a "national social emergency" arising from the unabated and alarming increase in the cases of too many Filipino teenage girls becoming mothers too soon, a senior cabinet official warned.

    World needs to take care of elderly

    07 Jun 2019

    To forget the elderly is to ignore the wisdom of the years, once wrote Donald Laird. With virtually every country in the world experiencing growth in the number and proportion of elderly people,

    World's migrant population now at 272 million, UN report finds

    17 Sep 2019

    Europe and North America have absorbed the largest share of the world's 272 million migrants, a population that has grown by 23 per cent over the past decade, according to a UN report.

    UAE tops countries in providing COVID-19 vaccines to the entire population free of charge

    24 Mar 2021

    “It applied an advanced system of preventive measures to confront the repercussions of the pandemic, and adopted an effective strategy for recovery planning for all sectors.”

    Shrinking populations are bad for global economy

    03 Apr 2021

    How worried should we be about global depopulation? Some East Asian countries have fertility rates near or even below 1.0, while much of the core population of Europe is shrinking. In the US,

    India’s tiger population rises to nearly 3,000 animals

    29 Jul 2019

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi says it’s a “historic achievement” for India as the big cat’s population had dwindled to 1,400 about 14-15 years ago.

    Huge challenge to lock down 1.3b people in a democracy

    30 Mar 2020

    It’s something that has never been tried before: 1.3 billion people — a fifth of the globe’s population — locked down in one place for 21 straight days.

    The advantage of India being a ‘Union’ of states

    06 Apr 2020

    The episode of corona virus infliction that embraced most Indian states, tested the strength of our federal architecture in a manner that was entirely new — for the first time the whole population

    As we celebrate the Earth Day, it makes sense to relook at our findings of human endangerment from carbon dioxide

    21 Apr 2020

    April 22 marks the 50th Earth Day, born in the height of fears of the population bomb, global famine, miasmatic air and the rapid decline of the West into post-civilizational chaos.

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