KARACHI - Banks have surpassed the agriculture credit disbursement target for the last fiscal year (2011-12) by extending loans amounting to Rs 293.8 billion to farmers.According to State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) here Friday, the disbursement is 103 percent of annual target or 8.8 billion, more than ...

India will take over China in terms of population by 2025, an analysis of the provisional Census, 2011 data suggests. With more than 1.2 billion people, India contains about 17.5 per cent (every sixth person in the world is an Indian) of humanity. China is the only country with a larger population, ...

India's burgeoning population has seen a five-fold increase over the last 100 years and will surpass that of China by 2050. Projections made by the government show that while India's population grew by 1.4 per cent over the last five years, China saw only a 0.6 per cent population growth for the ...