Death of a delta: Pakistan's Indus sinks and shrinksHabibullah Khatti prepares to leave his village due to seawater intrusion in the Indus delta. Many villages disappeared, and the population...
06 Aug, 2025, 12.18 AM IST
The US fertility rate reached a new low in 2024, CDC data showsU.S. fertility rate hits a record low of 1.6 children per woman in 2024, raising concerns after previously maintaining replacement levels. ...
24 Jul, 2025, 10.11 AM IST
Republicans don’t fear a backlash on immigration. They should.A new GOP budget bill allocates $170 billion for escalated deportations and restricts social safety net access for immigrants. Despite a gr...
14 Jul, 2025, 05.11 PM IST
New York and other American cities need immigrantsRecent remarks by anti-immigration figures criticizing New York City's high foreign-born population are historically inaccurate, as the cit...
07 Jul, 2025, 05.22 PM IST
We will break barrier of 50 pc cap on quotas: Rahul Gandhi in BiharCongress leader Rahul Gandhi, during his visit to Bihar, challenged the 50 per cent cap on caste-based reservations, promising to remove it...
06 Jun, 2025, 09.35 PM IST
Why droughts, not economic struggles, could be the new reason for urban migrationA study analyzing internal migration patterns across 72 countries over 50 years highlights how droughts are emerging as a key driver of mig...
16 Oct, 2024, 05.03 PM IST
Kamala Harris' multiracial roots reflect changing US demographicsKamala Harris, of Jamaican and Indian descent, reflects the U.S.'s changing demographics as she accepts the Democratic Party's presidential...
22 Aug, 2024, 05.39 PM IST
Americans are not polarised but our parties are, says Stanford University professor Morris P. FiorinaMorris P. Fiorina of Stanford University highlighted that the American public is not as divided as often portrayed. He emphasized the insta...
07 Aug, 2024, 11.14 PM IST
Work-from-home era is bad for thieves. They find a new targetA clear sign of the impact on burglary rates is evident in the FBI's data, where nonresidential burglaries (including those of stores, ware...
13 Apr, 2024, 09.25 PM IST
India’s population has already overtaken China’s, analysts estimateIndia, where half the population is under the age of 30, is set to be the world’s fastest-growing major economy in the coming years. To mak...
18 Jan, 2023, 10.09 AM IST
Christians now a minority in England and WalesIt found the number of people in England and Wales identifying their ethnic group as white had fallen by around 500,000 since 2011, from 86...
29 Nov, 2022, 08.07 PM IST
China's birth rate at record low in 2021: officialChina's birth rate plummeted to a record low last year, official data showed Monday, as analysts warn that faster-than-expected aging could...
17 Jan, 2022, 10.56 AM IST
Rapidly ageing China to face labour shortfall by 2021: ExpertsChina's labour population will show a downward trend as workers born during the baby boom in the 1960-70s begin to retire in 2021.
20 Oct, 2015, 04.12 PM IST
Indians third largest immigrant group in US: StudyIndians have emerged as the third-largest immigrant group in the US behind Mexicans and Chinese, with nearly 1.9 mn of them living in the c...
23 Aug, 2013, 05.03 PM IST
Gujarat to revise old criteria for sanctioning police forceThe sanctioning of police force in Gujarat, based on criteria devised on the basis of the 1960 census data, is being revised by the state g...
19 Aug, 2013, 11.04 AM IST
SP's UP win: Single-party governments and pace of developmentWith a regional party like the SP having swept the UP polls, the question arises as to what are the factors that determine a political part...
09 Mar, 2012, 03.19 PM IST
- Latest technologies to support wildlife conservation
The Wild Life Institute of India is also helping authorities to prosecute offenders by churning out forensic data.
31 May, 2011, 02.30 AM IST