India is expected to be the most populous country by the middle of this year and overtake China, according to the latest data from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). HT brings you a round-up of the most important and interesting stories, so you don’t miss your daily dose of news. |
THE BIG STORY India to overtake China in population by July 1: UN The United Nations expects India’s population to touch 1.429 billion latest by July 1, which will make it the most populous country in the world for the first time. This number is expected to be 2.96 million more than the population of China. The numbers are from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)’s State of World Population 2023 report released on Wednesday. Official population figures for India are not available after 2011 – it was 1.21 billion back then – as the government has indefinitely postponed the 2021 census citing the Covid-19 pandemic. Read more. |
THE BIG QUESTION Will India legalize same-sex marriage? Disapproving of the Union government’s stand that the demand for legal validation of same-sex marriage is an “urban elitist concept”, the Supreme Court on Wednesday said that an innate characteristic of a person cannot be called “elitist”, adding the government has failed in adducing any data to buttress its statement. “When you say that this is an innate characteristic, it’s also an argument in response to the contention that this is very elitist or urban or that it has a certain class bias. Something which is innate cannot have a class bias,” said a Constitution bench, led by Chief Justice of India Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud Read more. |
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