WHO published its World health statistics report 2025, revealing the deeper health impacts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on loss of lives, longevity and overall health and well-being. In just two years, between 2019 and 2021, global life expectancy fell by 1.8 years—the largest drop in recent history— reversing a …
Coming a long way since the days of the flawed pugmark tiger census, followed for over three decades, the country is all set to become the world pioneer in big cat monitoring with its new refined phase-four protocol. As per the latest method, annual monitoring of tiger source population would …
New Delhi: Over 300 tigers lost their lives in and outside various reserves in the country in the last decade, an RTI query has revealed. Out of a total of 337 big cats, which died due to poaching, infighting, accidents and old age among others, a highest of 58 were …
Bangalore: The state-controlled National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) yesterday notified new protocol for intensive monitoring of tiger source population under phase IV of the National Tiger Estimation Report. Welcoming the step, Ullas Karanth, Bangalore-based expert on tiger conservation, said the new protocol would put India’s tiger monitoring programme well ahead …
This paper analyzes the dynamics of population growth and urban expansion in the city of Xalapa, Mexico. It focuses on the establishment of informal settlements, which are one of the many threats to forest and farmland conservation (although these settlements are not the only source of the problem). Spatial analysis …
Women and impoverished, illiterate tribals fall prey to Madhya Pradesh’s overweening family planning zeal Birth Control 1951 Family planning as a policy is launched in independent India 1978 Rechristened Family Welfare after the emergency 2000 National Population Policy aims at stable population by 2045 2010 Madhya Pradesh launches targeted family …
The world is running out of time to make sure there is enough food, water and energy to meet the needs of a rapidly growing population and to avoid sending up to 3 billion people into poverty, a U.N. report warned on Monday. As the world's population looks set to …
This paper is the first attempt at examining the growth performance across Indian states during 2001-09, a period also marked by the global financial crisis. We report four key findings. First, consistent with the fact that the decade was the best one for Indian macroeconomic performance, growth increased across almost …
The Census of India has recently published Provisional Population Totals, Paper - II of 2011: India, Volume-II. Based on this, TCPO has prepared a report which analyzes the pattern of urbanization, number of towns, state-wise and district-wise urban population. As at present, the data is available only for Class-I towns, …
Navi Mumbai, the satellite township adjacent to Mumbai, has reported what could be the lowest sex ratio in the country. A survey conducted by the City and Industrial Development Corporation of India (CIDCO) has revealed that the township has 697 girls for 1,000 boys under the age of six. A …
The number of children in the United States considered poor rose by 1 million in 2010, the US Census said Thursday, with more than one in five of the youngest Americans now living in poverty. ‘Children who live in poverty, especially young children, are more likely than their peers to …
The plan charts a 20 year path towards achieving the overarching vision embedded in the Constitution that South Africa belongs to all who live in it. It breaks the five-year electoral cycle to allow for long-term planning. The plan opens the way for: The mobilisation of society around a commonly …
: Pakistan’s population will reach 210 million in the next nine years by 2020 – a situation that will burden its limited resources making it difficult for them to meet the requirements of additional people. According to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the world population will surpass 7 billion …
The world's population of seven billion is set to rise to at least 10 billion by 2100, but could top 15 billion if birth rates are just slightly higher than expected, the United Nations said on Wednesday. In a report ahead of ceremonies on October 31 to mark the seven …
President Mohamed Nasheed has said that experts estimate the population of Maldives to reach 400,000 by the year 2025. In his weekly radio address delivered Friday morning, the President spoke on the world population reaching a record 7 billion next Monday, noting that it was an achievement in many aspects. …
The planet’s seven billionth human is due to arrive on Oct. 31, according to the United Nations Population Fund, and a village in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh is likely to hog the limelight for this population landmark. The U.N. agency has said it cannot pinpoint “the exact …
The Earth's natural resources like food, water and forests are being depleted at an alarming speed, causing hunger, conflict, social unrest and species extinction, experts at a climate and health conference in London warned Monday. Increased hunger due to food yield changes will lead to malnutrition; water scarcity will deteriorate …
The world’s population will reach the seven billion mark on October 31 and with the increase in population, Sri Lanka too will face a number of challenges, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) said today. UNFPA sources said Sri Lanka would have to face a number of socio-economic challenges with …
The 2011 Census has reported a marginally higher growth in the urban population, yet it also reports a phenomenal increase of 2,774 new “census towns” – greater than the number of such new towns identified in all of the 20th century. Could this be the result of some kind of …
