-The Wire Science The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development set 17 goals – from healthcare and education-based outcomes to social goals. The third of these calls on countries to “ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all ages”. One of its sub-goals aims to “end preventable deaths” of newborns and children younger than five years. This is crucial for India because some 26 million children are born every year in India;...

-The Hindu Which countries are driving the rise? Where are India and China placed? How will it impact the UN’s sustainable development goals?  The story so far: Coinciding with the World Population Day on July 11, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, released the World Population Prospects 2022, an estimate on likely trends in global Population. The global Population, which stood at almost 7.9 billion in 2021,...

-Newsclick.in With wheat stocks at a 14-year low and procurement at a 20-year low, how is the ration system going to deliver this staple to crores of people? At the end of June this year, government procurement of wheat was about 188 lakh tonnes, dramatically down by 57% from last year’s 433 lakh tonnes, as per official figures. This is the lowest procurement amount in the last two decades. It was back...

-The Telegraph Senior official says deaths are highest in 'recorded' history of the state Guwahati: Assam has suffered 195 human casualties in the two waves of flood that have hit the state between April 6 and July 15 this year, leaving behind a trail of unprecedented destruction, affecting one third of the state’s over 3.2 crore Population and triggering a massive rescue and relief operation. According to chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, besides...

-Newsclick.in Politics, not facts, have weaponised demographic claims in India, but the Population is still heading for a decline, and that’s true for all communities. For decades, Indian politics has revolved around the bogey of ‘explosive’ Population growth. Population is routinely blamed for virtually every socio-economic problem in the country. Until the 1990s, governments actively pursued Population ‘control’ measures through means fair and foul. What few mention is that effectively, India’s TFR...