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...
05 Apr, 2026, 02.19 PM IST
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...
04 Sep, 2025, 08.12 PM IST
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...
26 Aug, 2025, 11.00 PM IST
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...
06 Mar, 2025, 12.16 AM IST
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...
18 Feb, 2025, 01.04 PM IST
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...
24 Sep, 2024, 02.22 PM IST
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...
02 Jan, 2024, 04.38 PM IST
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 ...
30 Jul, 2023, 03.49 PM IST
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...
15 Jul, 2021, 08.13 AM IST
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...
14 May, 2021, 07.32 AM IST
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...
24 Apr, 2021, 07.27 AM IST
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...
04 Jul, 2020, 11.47 AM IST
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...
07 May, 2020, 04.45 PM IST
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.
04 Jul, 2019, 03.16 PM IST
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...
11 Jun, 2016, 11.18 AM IST
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 ...
29 Mar, 2015, 10.47 AM IST
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...
20 Nov, 2014, 08.36 PM IST