Updated Feb 24, 2021 | 16:35 IST
Bihar BJP MLA Neeraj Singh Bablu appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to pass a law to curb the population growth in the country. Bihar BJP MLA Neeraj Singh Bablu | Photo Credit: ANI
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Patna: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Neeraj Singh Bablu, who was recently inducted into the Bihar Cabinet led by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, on Wednesday appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to pass a law to curb the population growth in the country.
While saying that India is witnessing an alarming spike in the population, the Bihar BJP MLA urged PM Modi to execute the ‘Population Control’ law and implement it as it would benefit the country.
Chris Packham and his New Caledonian crow
Are humans as smart as crows? Once the BBC poses a question like that, you already know the answer.
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Telegraph reviewer Anita Singh notes that the first episode “had an air of being cobbled together” with old footage of animals doing amusing tricks.
One experiment involved a New Caledonian crow, a species which has acquired a reputation for tool-making amongst biologists. In the wild, it removes grubs and bugs from logs with twigs.
Packham set up an experiment in which the bird had to access a treat from a perspex box through a series of manoeuvres. It needed to “push a ball out of the way, withdraw three sticks barring the door, reach inside and pull out the string attached to the food”.
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https://www.afinalwarning.com/493474.html (Natural News) A decline in population looms ahead for China despite its government’s loosening of population control measures. Provincial figures obtained from a nationwide census show China’s population growth in 2019 plunged to its lowest in 60 years. Not even the repeal of the one-child policy, which was in place since 1979, managed to address this dive in population.
Initial nationwide census findings, which have a larger scale, recorded 14.65 million births in 2019. But this figure was lower by one third compared to averages in the 1990s and 2000s. China’s strict population control measures were still in place during those decades.
Mass grave at the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home, Tuam, County Galway
Last week the Irish government published a 2,865 page report about dismal conditions in mother and baby homes between 1922 and 1998. The report found that about 9,000 children died, which was about 15 percent of the 57,000 children who passed through the institutions. Most of the children had been born out of wedlock – “illegitimate”, in the parlance of the time.
The levels of mortality were “appalling”, the report said, for the rate was far in far in excess of children brought up by their own parents.
Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Mícheál Martin, who made a formal apology to survivors of the homes, said the report shed light on a “a dark, difficult and shameful chapter of very recent Irish history”. “This detailed and highly painful report,” he told the Dáil (Parliament), “is a moment for us as a society to recognise a profound failure of empathy, understanding and basic humanity over a le