Ninety-two Asiatic lions have died, including 83 of natural death, in the past two years in Gujarat's Saurashtra region while there has been no case of poaching. ...
01:20 AM, Mar 25, 2013
Buyers in Delhi are indulging their sweet tooth by buying chocolates online, customers in Chennai are spending big on battery-operated toys, while consumers in Kolkata find solace in acquiring Tibetan collectibles, a census by eCommerce platform eBay shows. ...
02:14 PM, Mar 24, 2013
Indians are expected to rank as the largest ethnic minority group in the UK in the latest results from the 2011 census, according to a media report. Data from the 2011 census, to be released tomorrow, will suggest there are now more than one million people born to parents in interracial relationships, the British newspaper Daily Mail reported. ...
04:54 PM, Dec 10, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The Centre for Development Studies here has started the ground work for the seventh round of the comprehensive study on international and internal emigration from the state, says the study head. S. Irudayarajan, chief of the migration unit of the autonomous research institute, told IANS that the next round of the study would be based on the 2011 Census. "Our previous studies were based on the 2001 Census. This...
02:14 PM, May 25, 2012
A tiger death raises a million eye brows. An investigation is immediately sought. Conservationists make a hue and cry demanding the arrest of the poacher. But they don't show same intensity of concern when an elephant dies due to poaching or electrocution. Invariably the blame is thrust on elephants for crop-raiding. Farmers who illegally draw power from electric lines and trigger-happy poachers get away scot free. Like the critically endangered...
01:25 PM, May 21, 2012
Udaipur: A new-born girl was found dumped on the edge of a sewer line in a deserted area in Rajasthan's Udaipur city early Saturday morning, police said. The infant girl, who appears to have been disowned by her parents, has been adopted by an NGO. "Some morning joggers heard the cries of a baby. They spotted her lying on the brink of the sewer line in Udaipur Road area of...
09:28 AM, Apr 15, 2012
Mumbai: About 58.8 per cent of households in Maharashtra have TV sets while 13.3 per cent have computer/laptop and 69.1 per cent have telephone/mobile in their households, as per the data on "housing, amenities and assets" in the 2011 census. The respective figures at national level are 47.2, 9.5 and 63.2 per cent, Ranjit Singh Deol, director Census operations, Maharashtra, told reporters in Mumbai. The share of households having two...
10:59 AM, Mar 16, 2012
New Delhi: As the process of carrying out a caste-based census kicked off in the capital on Monday, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit backed the effort, contending it would help formulate more inclusive policies by identifying the weaker sections. Talking to reporters after chairing a cabinet meeting in Delhi, Dikshit said India was a developing nation and both economic and caste aspects were important for evaluation. Asked her opinion about...
03:53 PM, Jan 16, 2012
London: The world's population will hit seven billion by the end of October with five babies being born every second, experts have predicted. A little over a decade ago, the world's population stood at six billion. But, with five babies being born every second, 78 million people are added to the global community each year. The population was three billion in 1960 and six billion as recently as 1999. And,...
12:24 PM, Jul 20, 2011
New Delhi: The government should form a clear idea about the proposed National Food Security Bill as the new poverty list may not be available soon, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia said on Wednesday. The proposed National Food Security Bill, the 2009 election promise of the UPA government, aims to provide a legal right to subsidised foodgrains to the poor. At present, the Food Ministry is ready with...
04:18 PM, Jun 29, 2011
New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Thursday has given the go ahead for the Below Poverty Line (BPL) and caste census. The aim of the BPL census is to divide the population economically into above and below poverty line groups while the caste census will give a correct idea about various castes in India. The census will begin in June and cost the exchequer Rs 3,500 crore. The last caste...
01:50 PM, May 19, 2011
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12:02 AM, May 18, 2011
New Delhi: It was a moment of celebration when the Environment Minister announced that India's tiger population has increased by almost 16 per cent. But now, leading tiger scientist Ullas Karanth has questioned if there were problems with the methodology used. In a published paper, Karanth has stated, "Details now in public domain do not reveal critical information on tiger photo-captures at sampled locations, density estimation protocols used, and how ...
09:28 PM, May 17, 2011
Mumbai: Concerned over the growing incidence of female infanticide in state's Marathwada region and Beed district in particular, the Maharashtra government has convened a meeting on May 20 of all concerned officials in Beed to discuss crackdown on irregular activities. Beed has the lowest male-female sex ratio in the age group of 0-6 years (801 as against 1000 male children) as per the 2011 census. Maharashtra's sex ratio in the...
10:30 AM, May 17, 2011
New Delhi: Concerned at the growing uneven sex ratio in the country, Union Minister Farooq Abdullah on Wednesday said there will be a day when men will have no girls to marry and they may have to turn "gay". "The day is not far when there will be no girls to marry and we'll all become gays. That might happen," he said, while trying to drive home the point that...
02:08 PM, Apr 14, 2011
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Could a family that dared to defy the widespread household practice of female infanticide in Jaisalmer thirty years back by raising a girl have killed ...
04:13 PM, Apr 06, 2011
Shimla: While the overall child sex ratio has declined in India, Himachal Pradesh's Lahaul and Spiti district has set an example with 1,013 females per 1,000 males in the 0-6 age group - the highest in the country at the district level. Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh is the district with the second highest child sex ratio at 1,005, according to provisional data for Census 2011 released by Registrar General of...
12:36 PM, Apr 01, 2011
Kohima: Nagaland has recorded a negative decadal growth of population with the new Census data showing the state's population at 19,80,602 against the 2001 figure of 19,88,636. While all the North Eastern states recorded the decadal population growth more or less around the national average of 17.64 per cent, Nagaland recorded the same at minus 0.40 per cent. Nagaland had recorded the country s highest decadal population growth of 64.41...
11:15 AM, Apr 01, 2011
New Delhi: Counting over a billion people is no easy task. But the Census 2011 has done just that, giving India its newest headcount. At 121 crore population, it's the combined population of USA, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Japan. But the good news is that despite a growth rate of 17.64 per cent in the last decade, it is the sharpest decline in population growth rate since independence. But...
09:31 PM, Mar 31, 2011
New Delhi: India's effective literacy rate has recorded a 9.2 per cent rise to reach 74.04 per cent, according to provisional data of the 2011 census released on Thursday. Effective literacy rate in the 2001 census was 64.83, which improved to 74.04, said Registrar General of India and Census Commissioner C Chandramauli. Interestingly, literacy rate improved sharply among females as compared to males. While the effective literacy rate for males...
02:15 PM, Mar 31, 2011
