People crowd at the Juhu beach on the Arabian Sea coast in Mumbai, India, Sunday, Nov. 13, 2022. It is almost certainly true that India now has more people than China, something that was projected to ...

Having recently become the world’s most populous nation, India has sparked much speculation about whether it will continue to surpass China in other arenas. All eyes now are on the South Asian ...

Earlier this week, on the 75th anniversary of India’s Independence, Prime Minister Narendra Modi proclaimed a remarkable goal for the demographic giant: “developed country” status by India’s centenary ...

India became the top remittance recipient country in the world and the only nation to surpass 100 billion dollars, the UN agency on migration said, adding that the country received over 137 billion ...

School students take part in a yoga training session in Chennai on January 7, 2023. On New Year’s Day in 2021, nearly 60,000 babies were born across India—the highest number of births given anywhere ...

CHINA HAS been the world’s most populous country for hundreds of years. In 1750 it had an estimated 225m people, more than a quarter of the world’s total. India, not then a politically unified country ...