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India's population reaches 144 crore, to double in 77 years: UNFPA report
India's population is estimated to have reached 144 crore, with 24 per cent in the 0-14 age bracket…
PTI
Regressive spin on a government campaign is going viral in India
That translates to, ‘If you don’t let daughters come into the world, who’s going to cook for you…
China's Skewed Sex Ratio Is Boosting The Country's Trade Surplus
Fewer women in the marriage market have made Chinese women pickier. One female contestant on a Chin…
India accounts for one-third of the world's missing females, says a UN report
India accounts for 45.8 million of the world's 142.6 million "missing females" over the past 50 …
PTI
The world will see a shortfall of 5 million girls over the next 10 years due to sex selective practices, study says
In 80 years, there may be a shortfall of 22 million girls born, disrupting gender balance, which ma…
Vanessa Gu
The Indian government is reportedly planning a 'gender equality' unit
The government is planning to set up the unit under Women and Child Development Ministry and its…
India’s Infamy: Child Couple Glare At Unstable Future
The country is rich in human resources. Average age of an Indian is well below the quintessential 3…
The Science Behind What Makes Someone Sexy
"I believe that each of us perceives each person they meet as beautiful or not because of a combina…
Jennifer Welsh
China Drops 'Re-Education' Camps, Loosens One-Child Policy
The party also pledged at the meeting to reduce the scope of the death penalty "step by step" -- Ch…
Agence France Presse
Ex-Subway spokesman Jared Fogle will pay $1.4 million to 14 child porn victims
He also can't be employed by a company that involves any contact with minors and he will have to re…
Hayley Peterson
China Has Been Testing A Two-Child Policy And It Hasn't Been Working
China’s own experiment of two-child policy Yicheng county of Shanxi province has maintained a two-…
Sam Ro
Special Education, Inc.
When Audax Group's private equity arm bought a chain of schools specializing in autistic students, …
Meghan Morris
I'm a mom and a middle-school social worker. I wish parents knew that children want to make them proud.
The author shares what she has learned, both as a parent and working with kids at school. She belie…
Renee Childs
Long Covid symptoms can last up to two months in children says Lancet study
Children infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus can experience symptoms of long COVID lasting at least …
PTI
Women’s day in numbers: 9 grim reminders that Indian women are still a long way off from empowerment
Here’s a stock-take of how women in the country fare on various development fronts including eco…
China's millennials are shunning marriage at alarming rates, and it's creating a nationwide population crisis that Beijing can't magically fix
A 2021 survey found that 43.5% of unmarried women respondents were hesitant to get married because …
Matthew Loh
This government scheme aims to right gender imbalance
Even though the government has been taking many initiatives, the sex ratio in India has become a…
One of our biggest fears about designer babies is totally wrong
The practice is not likely to become widespread anyway. IVF is an intense medical procedure, and it…
Ellie Kincaid
This chart reveals how China's demographics are frighteningly skewed
"Women are bearing only 0.71 girls over their lifetime, well below the replacement figure of just o…
Sam Ro
Look back: Top 10 schemes that Modi unveiled in last 2 years
Some of the schemes unveiled by Modi, whose educational qualifications were recently under limeligh…