-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...
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How Delhi, UP Police & Judges Violated SC Guidelines In Arresting Alt News Co-Founder Mohd Zubair -Areeb Uddin Ahmed
-Article-14.com Police of two states & four magistrates violated a series of guidelines laid down by the Supreme Court, when Alt News co-founder Mohammad Zubair was called for questioning in a case in which he was protected from arrest, then held in another case, then two more. Judicial and police officers are liable for punishment if they infringe these orders, called the Arnesh Kumar guidelines. Yet, they have been freely violated...
More »Latest wetland mapping data underscores the need to step up conservation action -Ritesh Kumar
-India.Mongabay.com * India’s 2022 Wetlands Change Atlas mapped 231,195 wetlands, covering 4.86 percent of the country’s geographical area. The Atlas concluded that the number and extent of these wetlands have increased during the 2006/7-2017/18 period. * Given that mapping wetlands is a complex task, 2022 Atlas likely presents the lower bound of the actual wetland extent in the country and the overall number is higher than what is recorded. * It is high...
More »Why Were 1.3 Crore Jobs Lost in June? -Subodh Varma
-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...
More »Women’s lives get harder in Bundelkhand as water scarcity grows -Jigyasa Mishra
-TheThirdPole.net Up to 70% of women in parts of the drought-prone region in central India are affected by acute water shortages, according to one NGO estimate Every day during the summer months, Kamlawati Yadav wakes up at 6 am and walks half a kilometre to a house with a private borewell. “Getting water is the FIRst thing I do,” Kamlawati says. “I carry one water container on my head and a second...
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