RICE RIGOURS

Tiger under threat

CENSUS PLANNED

The best myth

Health needs political commitment

Lonely twilight: Highest rate of seniors living alone in Tamil Nadu, Nagaland

5.7% senior citizens in India live alone

Nation without doctors

Shortage of medical staff is a major challenge to Kenya's healthcare sector

Third World women want smaller families

China

Grandma's recipes

Crowded house

Vanishing 'green'

Follow up

Carry on doctor

Three cheetah cubs born at Kuno National Park, second litter since arrival

Cubs were likely born around a week ago

Project Cheetah: Two more cubs die, toll increases to six

Officials say the cubs died of severe dehydration caused due to extreme temperatures

Early pregnancy, under-5 mortality impact population rise in sub-Saharan Africa: UN report

World’s population is projected to reach 8 billion by November 15

Drought-hit South Africa to kill 350 hippos and buffaloes for feeding the poor

The protracted dry spell has caused a shortage of food for the animals

Migration sounding alarm bells in the West

Religious planning

CHINA

Thirsty islands

Islands in the Bay of Bengal have to contend with increasing scarcity of fresh water

Grain of truth

China will need to import foodgrain in the next 10 years

Showing the way

In the past 15 years, Mexico has halved its birth rate

In Short