-The Telegraph According to report, China’s population will decline to 1.317 billion by 2050, while India’s population will grow to 1.668 billion India is projected to surpass China as the most populous country during 2023, the United Nations said on Monday in a report forecasting global population trends over the coming decades. Both countries have around 1.4 billion people each in 2022, but an absolute decline in China’s population and continued growth in...

-The Hindu Business Line Stagnation in the area under cultivation and marginal growth in yields have capped domestic output growth, says a report Mangaluru: Even while the import-dependent edible oils market in India has been affected by geopolitical factors, the domestic production of oilseeds remains below the global average. The compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of oilseeds production in India has remained at 1.94 per cent between 2011-12 and 2020-21, as against global...

-Newsclick.in Most of the job losses were in agriculture, but 25 lakh salaried jobs were also lost. A perfect storm of delayed monsoon, languishing economy and continued inaction of the government on the jobs front has led to an astonishing decline of 1.3 crore from the total number of employed persons in the country in June this year, according to the latest CMIE estimates. In May, the number of employed persons were...

-The Telegraph CM says Jharkhand government is focused on reaching out to last mile with welfare schemes Jamshedpur: Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren reminded people of the starvation deaths during the erstwhile BJP-led government and patted his own government as nobody died of hunger even during the Covid lockdown. Addressing a gathering at Godda on Wednesday evening, Soren said the development works done during the “double engine” government (a term used by his...

-The New Indian Express The report finds that about 1 in 10 people worldwide are suffering from hunger and nearly 1 in 3 people lack regular access to adequate food. NEW DELHI: The climate crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic and an increased number of conflicts around the world could lead to an additional 75 million to 95 million people living in extreme poverty in 2022, compared with pre-pandemic projections, according to The Sustainable...