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K. Sudhakar said this "paradigm shift" in thinking is "not good".

According to a new analysis, excess deaths rise and fall with the waves of disease, reflecting the pandemic and not other longer-term underlying trends.

When Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath chose the occasion of World Population Day on July 11 to announce a new state population policy, there normally should have been no quarrel about it. After all, the state is India’s most populous, harbouring nearly 200 million people (as per Census 2011) or 17 per cent of India’s population. If it were to become a nation, Uttar Pradesh would have the fifth largest population in the world. So instead of welcoming a policy to control the state’s burgeoning population, why was there such a storm over Yogi’s announcement? Sure, some of the...

Politics of death: There should be a nationwide demographic survey to truly measure Covid fatalities July 22, 2021, 9:14 PM IST Times of India’s Edit Page team comprises senior journalists with wide-ranging interests who debate and opine on the news and issues of the day. On July 20, GoI made two eye-catching observations in Parliament about the second Covid wave. It said states had reported that there were no deaths due to medical oxygen shortage, or due to lack of testing and treatment. This is plainly inconsistent with collective experience. Apri...

Uttar Pradesh and Assam will do well to study population trends before pursuing two-child norm The National Family Health Survey has shown that fertility of a Muslim woman in Tamil Nadu is lower than that of a Hindu woman in Bihar. Policies are needed to promote female literacy and employment Engagement: 0 India’s young demography has been considered to be its structural advantage. Half the population is below the age of 27. Of course, there are poorer African countries whose median age is much lower. For example, it is 14.8 years for Niger, 15.8 for Uganda, 19.7 for Kenya. India’s ...