"Mar ke bhi chain na paya to kidhar jayenge? (If there is no peace in death, then where will I go?" This Urdu couplet from Ibrahim Zauq aptly sums up the problem of the dead in Hyderabad.

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Experts in Japan are warning of a doomsday scenario in which the Japanese could face extinction, if the current birthrate stays.

A study claims the last child will be born in 3011 and then the Japane

In the run-up to next month’s Rio+20 sustainable development conference in Brazil, the UN Asia-Pacific Human Development Report takes a hard look at how an extremely dynamic region can build rural res

India and China will witness the largest growth in their urban populations in the next four decades, posing new challenges of providing jobs, housing, energy and infrastructure to their people, the Un

India and China will witness unprecedented increase in their urban populations in the next four decades posing new challenges of providing jobs, energy, housing and infrastructure to their people, a U

Japan's population is expected to shrink to a third of its current size over the next century, with the average woman living to over 90 within 50 years, a government report said on Monday.

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A new regulation that requires women buying emergency contraceptives in at least one Chinese city to register their real names and ID card numbers has triggered an outcry on the Internet.

A couple from Bihar, who have seven daughters, were arrested for abandoning their seven-year-old child in a crowded mall here in January as they were unable to raise their children due to poverty, pol

With countries across the world, including India, staking claim to being home to the seven billionth baby, UN Chief Ban Ki-Moon said his office would not be able to pin-point who the world's seven bil

A woman in China was caught and forced to undergo sterilisation surgery after she gave birth to her second child, a media report said.

The woman was nabbed and brought to her hometown in southeast Fu