The dynamics of family structure is undergoing a transformation. Declining fertility and mortality rates are leading to new ...

India, according to him, is now entering the same demographic transition zone that has challenged countries such as China, Japan and South Korea.

NEW DELHI: India's population is estimated to reach 1.46 billion in 2025, continuing to be the highest in the world, according to a new UN demographic report, w ...

Soldiers from Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, 5th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, ford a stream during a security patrol in the Arghandab Valley, Afghanistan, Dec. 3, 2009 ...

Within Afghanistan and among the country’s well-wishers, there remains a commitment to the development of a free and independent media capable of holding authority to account, of enabling ...

The project established a model that could work across the country and beyond the project’s own timeframe. Among the most significant achievements are the effective operationalization of the revolving ...

Russia is increasingly approaching Afghanistan as yet another Central Asian state – including gradually opening access to its ...

China's economy is growing, outpacing the US in terms of industrial potential, but there are a number of problems: Whether ...

In sunnier times our great capital city regarded itself as a model for the country that it was, sometimes reluctantly, attached to. Go back 25 years and London was booming: a global centre of finance ...

At the International Afghanistan Conference in Bonn, Germanylast week, 85 countries affirmed their commitment to Afghanistan for the decadefollowing the 2014 transition, and highlighted gains over ...

London’s illegal immigrant population could be as high as 500,000, assuming a national figure of just over 1 million, and many of the 160,000 people, mainly young men, who have crossed the ...