Population

As world population crossed the 8 billion mark, Zomato, Dunzo and a number of other brands shared their funny and witty tweets.

India will overtake China as the worlds most populous nation by 2022, says a new UN report that revises its previous estimates, which put the date around 2028.

Soaring rates of population growth and ageing have long been seen as portending a global explosion of Alzheimer's, the debilitating disease that robs older people of their memory and independence. But an unexpected, and hopeful, ...

These data, from the 2015 Rural Health Statistics (RHS), indicate how successive UP governments have neglected affordable, accessible and quality healthcare for the 200 million people

Healthy city design and planning in densely populated countries like India can reduce growing epidemics, injuries and non-communicable (NCD) diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer, finds a new study.

Heart disease has affected the young Indian population 10 years ahead of their Western counterparts particularly over the last three decades owing to sedentary lifestyles and lack of exercise, the nations top cardiologists have ...

There is a need to boost agriculture mechanisation to enhance crop productivity to feed the growing population, Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh said on Friday.

Malnutrition - which includes hunger and obesity - is on the rise and may affect half the world's population by 2035 unless governments take urgent action to reverse its spread, U.N. agencies and experts said ...

An astonishing 5.5 billion people - up to 76 per cent of the world's population - are 'overfat', warn researchers.

One third of India's population is likely to suffer from hypertension by 2020, with around 20 per cent of the rural population too to be a victim, said health experts.