No love, no chicks, only extinction? Gujarat has a 'pyaar ka stimulus plan' for loveless birdsGujarat is trying to save the lesser florican. The bird faces extinction. Last year, breeding failed. Now, experts use fake female birds to...
11 Jul, 2025, 01.54 PM IST
RFK Jr.’s alarming claims on sperm counts and male fertility spark debate—experts urge cautionRobert F. Kennedy Jr. raised concerns about declining testosterone and sperm counts in young American men. He links this to food dyes, proc...
04 Jul, 2025, 04.46 AM IST
Japan’s birthrate hits new low: Expert warns only one teenager will be left by THIS year in world's 4th biggest economyJapan faces a severe demographic crisis with a record low birthrate, a shrinking workforce, and rising social security costs. Government me...
27 Feb, 2025, 07.43 PM IST
South Korea may become the first country to disappear from the face of Earth. The reasons are not as simple as they seem to beSouth Korea is grappling with a severe fertility crisis as birth rates plummet. The situation is exacerbated by socio-economic pressures an...
30 Nov, 2024, 12.52 PM IST
India staring at infertility crisis, may alter population dynamics, says top IVF chain FounderDr Ajay Murdia of Indira IVF warns of a growing infertility crisis in India due to hormonal issues, substance use, and changing lifestyles....
21 Jul, 2024, 02.09 PM IST
Aging Japan ends iconic thousand-year-old 'Somin-sai Naked Men festival'Japan's historic 'Somin-sai Naked Men Festival' in Iwate prefecture concludes after a thousand-year run, marking the end of an era. Aging o...
19 Feb, 2024, 03.09 PM IST
A brief history of the rise and fall of Gotabaya RajapaksaGotabaya Rajapaksa's departure comes four days after massive crowds broke into his official residence and occupied his seaside office, and ...
13 Jul, 2022, 02.17 PM IST
Declining marriage numbers add to China's demographic conundrumAs the demographic crisis deepened, China has permitted all couples to have two children in 2016, scrapping the draconian decades-old one-c...
24 Nov, 2021, 12.43 PM IST
View: Impact of pandemic on female labour force participationThe peculiar changes in rural employment over the year seem to signal distress-driven employment. Thus, the turnabout in the female LFPR sh...
09 Sep, 2021, 01.28 PM IST
UP population control bill draws ire from Hindu bodies; experts advise caution, more dialogueVishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) international working president Alok Kumar said the proposal to incentivise couples to have just one child will...
12 Jul, 2021, 01.42 PM IST
No place for women: What drives India’s ever-declining female labour force?The discussion on low participation of women in the labour markets should begin with a dialogue about how the onus of domestic chores and c...
13 Jun, 2021, 02.16 PM IST
Village Financial Services: Market-based impact lending for the underserved, unbankedConsidering the constraints of the banking sector in serving the poor, a funding platform setup in 1980s is helping rural entrepreneurs in ...
23 Apr, 2019, 11.31 AM IST
Full text of President Ram Nath Kovind's addressThe Budget session 2018 began with President Ram Nath Kovind's joint address to both houses of the parliament. In his first address, he inv...
29 Jan, 2018, 01.11 PM IST
Billionaire Parsi warns shrinking group to take risksDespite their successes, the Zoroastrians, who hold a global conference every four years, face a demographic crisis as their population rap...
27 Dec, 2013, 04.14 PM IST
Kashmir: Pushed into an abyss of trauma with over usage of pleasure drugsDecades of militancy have pushed Kashmir into an abyss of trauma. Among the new ills: soaring sales of over-the-counter pleasure drugs, ris...
27 Jul, 2013, 12.47 PM IST
How Nandan Cleantec is gearing up to power global aviation with jatrophaIn the face of an impending global energy crisis, the significance of jatropha plant and the promise it holds for the future cannot be writ...
15 Oct, 2012, 07.21 PM IST
- Fertile environment for women entrepreneurs in India: Study
The finding is part of Dell Women's Global Entrepreneurship Study conducted across 450 women entrepreneurs from US, UK and India.
19 Jun, 2012, 03.00 PM IST