Sub-replacement fertility rates are altering demographic landscapes and could threaten economic growth in the coming decades.
China's total investment in water conservancy facility construction is expected to exceed 5.4 trillion yuan (about 759.6 billion US dollars) during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025), 1.6 ...
Study finds ageing as major contributor to musculoskeletal disorders burden in middle-income countries, impacting healthcare ...
Since 2017, Myanmar’s military has killed tens of thousands of Rohingya and exiled hundreds of thousands more to neighboring Bangladesh; in early 2025, the junta cut off food and supplies to the ...
Karnataka has emerged as the cybercrime capital of India, accounting for more than a quarter of all such cases registered ...
Novel research shows that in approximately one third of countries and territories worldwide, population aging was the largest contributor to the growing burden of musculoskeletal disorders from 1990 ...
About a month ago, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem held a press conference to announce that about “1.6 ...
Opinion

Living longer, living better

W B Yeats’ iconic opening line of the poem ‘ Sailing to Byzantium’, 1926, declares on a sad note ‘that is no country for old men’. In a systematically developed series of images the poet unravels the ...
Jammu and Kashmir recorded the second-lowest rate of reporting murder cases among all the states and Union territories in 2023, with less than one case per one-lakh population, data released by the ...
Legal experts suggest judges’ extensive analytical work justifies higher retirement ages compared to other sectors. The ...
Research shows older adults had 4.45 million skin cancer cases in 2021. Basal cell carcinoma is expected to double by 2050 worldwide.
Many African countries inherited their tax systems from France. A tax system that consisted only of a VAT of 18%, with no ...