NEW DELHI: High-polluting cities such as Delhi, Ghaziabad, Noida, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Nashik and Kota recorded improvement in terms of reducing PM10 to an extent, but their levels remain quite far from the acceptable limit, as per data released by Union environment ministry. Delhi reduced the level of PM10 from 241 g/m3 in 2017-18 to…
NEW DELHI: Twenty-one cities including Greater Mumbai, Varanasi, Agra, Lucknow, Kanpur, Dehradun, Dhanbad, Trichy and Tuticorin have reduced the concentration of critical air pollutant PM10 by more than 40% in 2023-24 compared to 2017-18 levels, according to the latest compilation of data from 131 cities made by the environment ministry.Though these 21 cities have met…
NEW DELHI: By 2036, India’s population is expected to reach 152.2 crore, with a slightly improved female percentage of 48.8% as compared to 48.5% in 2011, a report published by the ministry of statistics and programme implementation (MoSPI) showed on Monday.The report – ‘Women and Men in India 2023’ – projects that the proportion of…
RANCHI: Jharkhand should treat Assam as a cautionary tale of how demographic change caused by “infiltration from Bangladesh” has become “a matter of life and death” for the state’s indigenous population, CM Himanta Biswa Sarma said Wednesday in Ranchi.“In Assam, Muslim population is 40%. It was 12% in 1951. We lost districts due to infiltration…
NEW DELHI: A report by Economic Advisory Council to the PM has said that minorities are thriving in India, and not just protected, arguing that the share of the majority population has declined in the country between 1950 and 2015.A paper by Shamika Ravi, Abraham Jose and Apurv Kumar Mishra said the share of Hindus…
MUMBAI: The foreign-born population in the US has increased by 15.6 per cent from 2010 to 2022, and is estimated to be 46.2 million (which is 13.9 per cent of the total population in 2022). In 2010, the foreign-born population stood at 40 million, which was 12.9 per cent of the total population.Nothing signifies the…
China’s ruling Communist Party is facing a national emergency. To fix it, the party wants more women to have more babies. It has offered them sweeteners, like cheaper housing, tax benefits and cash. It has also invoked patriotism, calling on them to be “good wives and mothers”. China’s population was 1,409,670,000 (or 1.4 billion) at…
