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    • India@75 | Then and Now: Population, sex ratio, literacy rate and more

      India@75 | From 0.3 million registered vehicles in 1950 to 295.8 million in 2019, from 1.2 million tonnes of crude steel in 1947 to 118 million tonnes in 2021... here is India in numbers

    • 15% of lawyers in 15 states are women, says Law Ministry

      Meghalaya has almost 60 percent women lawyers while Uttar Pradesh has a mere 8.75 percent of women in its lawyer force.

    • NFHS 5 | Better female sex ratio does not mean a better future for women in India

      The latest National Crimes Record Bureau (NCRB) data puts this in perspective to underline just how pervasive, and deep-rooted gender-based violence is in India when it states that every hour 35 crimes against women are reported in India 

    • No country for 'missing women' | NFHS records more women than men in India

      The country has come a long way since 1990 when Nobel laureate Amartya Sen coined the term 'missing women' as at that time there were 927 women per 1,000 men in the country

    • India is greying, and how

      The proportion of the elderly population is rising in states while the birthrate has been falling. States with good performance on various social indicators such as Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Himachal Pradesh are experiencing faster greying of their population.

    • National Girl Child Day 2021 | Sex ratio at birth improves from 918 to 934 in past five years: Health Ministry

      The under-five mortality rate among girls – which is a strong indicator of gender discrimination -- has also declined from 45 in 2015 to 36 in 2018.

    • National Family Health Survey | Sex ratio of total population improves in 17 states/UTs, Himachal fares worst with 835 female births per 1,000 males in 5 years

      Kerala, which was among the few states that had earlier recorded a positive sex ratio in the last National Family Health Survey, saw its sex ratio decline to 951 from a remarkable 1,047.

    • Selective abortion in India may lead to 6.8 million fewer girls being born by 2030: Study

      Researchers from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, and Universite de Paris, France, noted that there has been a reported imbalance in India in the sex ratio at birth (SRB) since the 1970s due to the emergence of prenatal sex selection and the cultural preference for male babies.

    • Brickwork Offers Complimentary Seminars on Public Finances

      Brickwork Ratings, a wholly Indian credit rating agency, released the fourth edition of State Finances Handbook 2015 recently in The LaLiT, New ...

    • India's 67th Independence Day: Taking stock of the economy

      It is independence week and it is time for stocktaking, to be sure we have done well these 66 years, reports CNBC-TV18‘s Gopika Gopakumar.

    • Delhi's sex ratio increases, still below national ratio

      Delhi's sex ratio has increased from 821 in 2001 census to 866 in 2011 but it is still below the national ratio, according to data released by Delhi government which puts the city's population at 1.67 crore.

    • Sex ratio in rural areas better than in urban areas

      Sex ratio at birth and in all ages in rural areas is better than in urban areas, according to the first district-wise annual health survey (AHS) of nine states released today.

    • Census: India's population growth finally drops

      India's population has been pegged at 1,210.2 million, according to the provisional 2011 Census report released on Thursday in New Delhi. Out of 1,210.2 million people in India there are 623.7 million males and 586.5 million females.

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