The government is not contemplating any legislative measures for population control, Minister of State for Health Bharati Pravin Pawar told the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. Responding to a question on ...

The age of overpopulation is over. The age of underpopulation is here. After decades of warnings and fear about an overpopulation crisis, population is now rapidly declining in most of the world. The ...

Indian women have been urged to have a minimum of two children in a bid to reverse plummeting birth rates and boost the population. N. Chandrababu Naidu, who is the chief minister of the Andhra ...

An Indian politician has said Indian families should have three children each, after the country's fertility rate dropped to below two children per woman. Mohan Bhagwat, chief of the Rashtriya ...

India may not need to vaccinate all of its 1.3 billion people if it manages to inoculate a critical mass and break the transmission of the coronavirus, senior government officials said on Tuesday.