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Is India winning the wrong battle on infant mortality?India's infant mortality rate has significantly dropped to 24 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2024. This progress is largely due to a surge...
Kerala’s healthcare gold rush: How private equity is reshaping hospitals and raising fears over costsPrivate equity funds are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into Kerala’s healthcare sector, reshaping a system long dominated by inde...
Telangana caste survey finds 89,000 child labourers; majority from SC, ST communitiesA recent Telangana caste survey found 89,000 children under 18 working daily. SC Madigas and ST Lambadis form a significant portion. The su...
India’s rise beyond cost: KTR calls it a ‘capability story’Speaking at the event, KTR highlighted India's strengths in terms of human capital, market scale and policy support, positioning the countr...
Portrait of ageing India: Data shows 0-14 age group's share in population, fertility rate decliningIndia's demographic landscape is shifting, as revealed by the 2023 Sample Registration System report. The data indicates a declining fertil...
Future India needs younger MLAs, MPsTelangana CM Revanth Reddy suggests lowering the election contesting age. The proposal aims to align legislatures with India's demographics...
Naidu advocates population growth, demands sops for larger familiesAndhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu stresses the need for population growth to maintain India's demographic dividend and proposes incentive...
Is Hyderabad prepared to handle the pressure of its increasing population?Hyderabad surpasses Delhi with a population density of 18,161 people per square kilometre, putting immense pressure on the city's infrastru...
Working-age Indian population rising; expected at around 64% in next census: SBI ResearchIndia's working-age population has been rising since 1971 and is projected to reach 64.4% in the upcoming Census, according to SBI Research...
Over 1 crore people screened for sickle cell disease under national missionThe mission entails screening of seven crore population for sickle cell disease in the age group of zero to 40 years, pre-marital and pre-c...
India's per capita income seen growing nearly 70% to USD 4,000 by FY30India's per capita income is likely to grow by nearly 70 per cent to USD 4,000 by FY 2030 from USD 2,450 in fiscal 2023, helping it become ...
Covid Vaccination: About 31% of Indians jabbed at least onceCountry’s Covid-19 immunisation drive completes six months today. Sikkim’s coverage is 90.53%; coverage in NE states and nine UTs above nat...
Prioritise second shots of frontline workers, 45+: Centre to statesThough the drive has been initiated in 30 states and union territories on differing scale, states like Delhi, Maharashtra and Karnataka hav...
Covid-19 vaccination: High caseload states plan to prioritise those with illnessesThe Centre had recently liberalised the Covid-19 immunisation programme by letting go off 50% vaccines from its control to states and priva...
Nearly 2/3rds of Indians are of working age, between 15 and 59In general, states widely considered less developed had a lower proportion of their population in the working-age groups. This is because m...
How vulnerable are India's states to Covid-19 infections?This pandemic could act as a starting point for the re-orientation of the primary and district health care systems of Indian states to keep...
Retirement age set to rise due to higher life expectancy: Economic SurveyIndia's population is expected to grow under 0.5 per cent due to dip in fertility rate & increase in life expectancy.
At 99 per cent, Telangana has maximum non-vegetarians in countryOverall, the percentage of non-vegetarians across the country has dropped from 75-71%, with Punjab and Haryana having maximum number of veg...
Aadhaar count in 13 states higher than their populationsAadhaar numbers assigned to adult residents in 13 of the country's 36 states and UTs have exceeded their respective population as per 2011 ...
Child labour Bill to be brought in coming Parliament sessionThe amendment Bill of Child Labour Act, pending since 2012, has proposed to ban employment of children below 14 years of age in any occupat...