Articles for Urban Population

Review of Surinder S. Jodhka’s The Indian Village: Invisible India
1 year ago

Review of Surinder S. Jodhka’s The Indian Village: Invisible India

The Hindu  

Three great public intellectuals of the 20th century regarded the Indian village in very different ways. For him, the Indian village was an ideal of self-rule and cooperation: “My idea of village swaraj is that it is a complete republic, independent of its neighbours for its own vital wants, and yet interdependent for many others in which dependence is a …

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Insurance yet to take deep roots in rural India
1 year, 9 months ago

Insurance yet to take deep roots in rural India

Deccan Chronicle  

Chennai: The penetration of life insurance in rural areas is significantly lower than the urban areas. Only 22 per cent of the rural population owns life insurance products as against 73 per cent ownership in urban India. As per the survey by Max Life and Kantar, conducted across 113 villages, rural India scored 12 points on the protection quotient scale, …

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Himalayan rivers like Indus, Ganges will see flows reduced as glaciers recede: UN
1 year, 9 months ago

Himalayan rivers like Indus, Ganges will see flows reduced as glaciers recede: UN

Deccan Chronicle  

United Nations: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned that major Himalayan rivers like the Indus, the Ganges and Brahmaputra, all hugely important for India, could see reductions in their flows as glaciers and ice sheets recede over the coming decades due to global warming. "As glaciers and ice sheets continue to recede over the coming decades, major Himalayan rivers like …

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Major Himalayan rivers like Indus, Ganges and Brahmaputra will see their flows reduced as glaciers recede: U.N. Chief
1 year, 9 months ago

Major Himalayan rivers like Indus, Ganges and Brahmaputra will see their flows reduced as glaciers recede: U.N. Chief

The Hindu  

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that major Himalayan rivers like the Indus, the Ganges, and Brahmaputra, all hugely important for India, could see reductions in their flows as glaciers and ice sheets recede over the coming decades due to global warming. "As glaciers and ice sheets continue to recede over the coming decades, major Himalayan rivers like the Indus, the …

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Census Bureau raises the bar on the definition of ‘urban’ in America
1 year, 11 months ago

Census Bureau raises the bar on the definition of ‘urban’ in America

LA Times  

Tourists look out over San Francisco from Christmas Tree Point on top of Twin Peaks on Dec. 15. More than 1,100 cities, towns and villages in the U.S. lost their status as urban areas on Thursday as the U.S. Census Bureau released a new list of places considered urban based on revised criteria. “Places that qualify as urban are eligible …

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Georgia gets more urban and diverse as white residents dip
3 years, 4 months ago

Georgia gets more urban and diverse as white residents dip

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — Georgia is growing ever more urban and ever more diverse, Census figures released Thursday show, continuing a shift in population toward metro Atlanta and away from the rural areas that were once the backbone of the state. “Based on the counties I’ve been able to drill down on so far, the ones that have experienced meaningful growth and …

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Epidemics and their urban context: Covid-19 and lessons from Wuhan
3 years, 4 months ago

Epidemics and their urban context: Covid-19 and lessons from Wuhan

Hindustan Times  

Covid-19 emerged in Wuhan, a second-tier city in Hubei province of central China, which went on to become the first epicentre of the epidemic before it moved to other provinces within China and other countries to the West. Wuhan has similar characteristics as any other urban city - an important hub for trade, commerce, political and educational activities, high density …

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Second wave spreading much faster in rural India than first
3 years, 7 months ago

Second wave spreading much faster in rural India than first

Hindustan Times  

The second wave of Covid-19 in India has gained traction in the country’s vast rural hinterland, where health care infrastructure is weaker than in urban areas, at a much faster rate than it did during the first wave of the outbreak, shows data analysed by HT. During the first wave, urban areas contributed a majority of new infections in India …

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Covid-19: One in every 15 exposed to virus by Aug, says ICMR on second sero-survey result
4 years, 2 months ago

Covid-19: One in every 15 exposed to virus by Aug, says ICMR on second sero-survey result

Live Mint  

The Indian government on Tuesday said that according to the Indian Council Medical Research's second national sero-survey report, one in 15 individuals aged more than 10 years were estimated to be exposed to Covid-19 by August 2020. Dr Bhargava also added that according to the second sero survey report, urban slum and urban non-slum areas had higher SARS CoV 2 …

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COVID-19: Antibodies found in 8% people in Haryana
4 years, 3 months ago

COVID-19: Antibodies found in 8% people in Haryana

Live Mint  

Antibodies against the COVID-19 infection were found in 8% of people in the sero-prevalence survey done in Haryana last month and those living in urban areas and NCR districts were found more affected, Health Minister Anil Vij said on Friday. The sero-positivity observed that in urban areas the rate is 9.59% and in rural areas it is 6.9%, said Vij …

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