<p>Birth Rate is a crude measure of fertility of a population and is a crucial determinant of population growth. It gives the number of live births per thousand population in a given region and year. The
Police arrested eight protesters on Wednesday as they tried to stop a cull of hundreds of kangaroos on a military base near the Australian capital, and local Aborigines joined the campaign against the slaughter. Elders from the local indigenous Ngunnawal clan said they were reclaiming the land from the Australian Defence Force, lighting a small ceremonial fire, which they attempted to carry onto the defence communications site. "We are claiming our land and that's what our sacred fire means," elder Isobel Coe shouted at police as protesters forced their way to the site of the cull.
Sindh Information Minister Shazia Mari said on Wednesday that the problems are well beyond the available facilities, but government is making its all efforts to increase the living standard of people, she was addressing inauguration of 'Birth Rate Control Program' held by Family Advancement for Life and Health (FALAH).
Following a recent survey Sri Lanka's Department of Census and Statistics said that 15% of the country's total population lives under extreme poverty conditions. The Department has also identified 19 most poor Grama Sewa Wasams (Village Officer Divisions) in Sri Lanka during the study that was conducted to categorize the Grama Sewa Wasams against the poverty line.
The proportion of children in the country's population has fallen to an all-time low of 13.5 per cent. That's a demographic catastrophe that is without precedent in the developed world, writes BLAINE HARDEN Japan celebrated a national holiday, last Monday, in honour of its children. But Children's Day might just as easily have been a national day of mourning. For this is the land of disappearing children and a slow-motion demographic catastrophe that is without precedent in the developed world.
Managing Inflation has become a bugbear for everyone in this country. The galloping inflation has made the life of ordinary citizen miserable in as much as it has become very difficult to make both ends meet. Prices of foodgrains, oil, milk, vegetables and other essential commodities which constitute an average of more than 50% of the family budget have hit the roof. The situation has become alarming. The main reasons are the fall in agriculture production in the country and all over the world.
In an astounding revelation, top state economist YK Alagh has calculated that Gujarat's land will become 70 per cent urban by the middle of the next decade. Addressing the annual convocation of Dharmasinh Desai University, Nadiad, on Saturday, Prof Alagh said, "Already, there are 2,018 villages in Gujarat which should be stopped being categorized as rural, yet they are governed by village panchayats.' He stressed on urban planning in these villages.
The number of children aged 14 or younger is estimated to have totaled 17.25 million in Japan as of April 1, marking a record low for the 27th straight year, according to a government report released one day ahead of the Children's Day holiday on Monday. Children formed 13.5% of the aggregate population, making Japan the country with the lowest percentage of children among 31 major countries. Their proportion of the total population fell from 13.6% last year, registering a drop for the 34th year in a row, the report showed.
A Rs29.6 billion loan approved by Japan under its official development assistance (ODA) will be used for development of rural areas in Sindh and Punjab and development of infrastructure and irrigation sector. The Japan Bank for Inter-national Cooperation (JBIC) has now released details of the 47.943billion yen (Rs29.6 billion) ODA utilisation, an agreement for which was signed on Saturday.
Rich countries must commit to cutting carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2050 and developing nations must agree that by 2020 they too will set their own targets, leading economist Nicholas Stern said on Wednesday. He said the only way the world could defeat the climate crisis was by ensuring that global carbon emissions peaked within 15 years, were then halved from 1990 levels to 20 billion tonnes a year by 2050, and cut to 10 billion thereafter.
Madhya Pradesh Minister for Health and Family Welfare Shri Ajay Vishnoi has announced a ten time increase in the cash award given to those informing of female foeticide. The reward has been increased from Rs. ten thousand to Rs. one lakh.
