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A total of 199 students were awarded degrees and diplomas this year while students showing excellence in research and academic work were also awarded with gold and silver medals for their achievements.

The international science journal had stated that as of 2021, around 60 lakh children (aged between 6 to 23 months) in the country faced zero-food which Indian researchers said is “misleading.”

Over 16 crore women and adolescents with need to prevent pregnancy remained without contraception in 2019, despite major increases in use at a global level since 1970, according to a study published in The Lancet journal.

Pedestrians walk past a population clock board displayed outside the International Institute for Population Sciences in Mumbai on April 27, 2023. | AFP via…

It needs a leader like Deng Xiaoping who lifted people out of poverty in the eighties

India now has the world’s largest population—and is trying to find ways not to.

Tax-exempt hospitals have special obligations to their communities in exchange for that privilege. They report the amounts they spend on community benefits yearly and conduct a community needs assessment at least every three years. There is no doubt that these hospitals both meet and exceed any requirements and expectations that attach to the privilege of tax exemption.

India needs to advance on four broad fronts — urbanisation, infrastructure, up-skilling and broadening its labour force, and boosting manufacturing — to fully cash in on its demographic dividend and reshape the global economy in the process

A fleeting moment in western India on the evening of March 8 will remain etched in Nikita Punjabi’s memory forever: The first glimpse of her newborn daughter…

How quickly India boosts its proportion of city dwellers and whether it can create enough quality jobs to accommodate the shift carries crucial significance for its growth needs.